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But, using gas electrification, we could pull more than four people out of poverty for the same
amount.
The study by Auriol and Fanfalone shows that increasing mobile broadband about three-fold in developing regions – from 21% to 60% – will cost a substantial $1.3 trillion, as a significant
amount
of extra infrastructure is needed to establish about three billion more Internet connections.
If he does, the European Union and others could retaliate against an equal
amount
of US exports.
We are now talking about real money: nearly $1 trillion of US imports and an equivalent
amount
of US export sales and foreign investments.
The resulting addition of more than two billion “life years” represents a significant
amount
of human productivity, creativity, and uncompensated contributions to families and society.
If the banks went bankrupt now, the CBC would have to record the total
amount
– estimated at up to €12 billion ($15.7 billion) – as a loss, delivering a potentially fatal blow to the eurozone’s credibility.
Only 2% of official development aid is earmarked for improving the quality of statistics – an
amount
wholly insufficient to assess accurately the impact of the other 98% of aid.
No
amount
of money will undo the damage done.
But no one has so far argued that the cost of damage caused to the development prospects of poor countries and regions is less than the
amount
of compensation being offered to cover adjustment costs.
No one can say for sure, but one thing is certain: Whereas the profits from playing transatlantic interest-rate differentials may run to 1% or 2% per year, investors can easily lose that
amount
in a single day – or even an hour – by buying the wrong currency when the trend turns.
George W. Bush presented himself not as a normal conservative, but as something he called a “compassionate conservative,” thus preserving a certain
amount
of ambiguity.
The quality and composition of social spending is just as important as the
amount
that is spent.
The bilateral approach would demand a huge
amount
of time and resources, with UK negotiators engaging in a series of discussions with each and every country with which they wanted to do business.
There has been a huge
amount
of research into the ways that humans cause climate change, and how we can reduce it.
Likewise, an abnormal test wouldn’t necessarily imply impaired mental capacity: a person can retain their intelligence, even after losing a significant
amount
of their brain.
There is a huge
amount
of confrontation on stage.
By providing extra liquidity, central banks merely reduce the
amount
of money withdrawn from expenditure on goods and services, which mitigates, but does not reverse, the negative demand shock that hit the world economy.
In addition to intergovernmental transfers and guarantees, the Bundesbank’s claims against peripheral countries’ central banks within the Target2 clearing system totaled €644 billion ($804 billion) on April 30, and the
amount
is growing exponentially, owing to capital flight.
When capital grows faster than labor and GDP, the rate of return will fall over time, but proportionately less than growth in the
amount
of capital.
In comparison, the UN estimates that half that
amount
could buy clean drinking water, sanitation, basic health care, and education for every single person in the world.
The best way to implement this strategy is to use a “carbon credit trading system” in the advanced countries, with each advanced country receiving a certain
amount
of carbon credits to determine its permissible emission levels.
To put that
amount
into perspective, the regular move of EU institutions between Brussels and Strasbourg costs €200 million per year.
At the same time, however, allowing the global market to function without adapted regulation, enacted by legitimate and effective international institutions, would
amount
to abandoning the essence of democracy.
The private sector had large foreign assets, while the government had about the same
amount
of foreign liabilities.
He took unnecessary risks by escalating his war in Yemen, and now has a significant
amount
of civilian blood on his hands.
But, as the share of losers has grown alongside the emergence of a postindustrial economy, this model has reached its limits, with the growing
amount
of redistribution undermining economic efficiency.
The 2019 European parliamentary elections may
amount
to a kind of reckoning.
A well-structured global aviation contract could generate a significant
amount
of finance for climate-change measures in developing countries.
But interest savings are modest, because the ECB is formally limited from buying more than a certain
amount
of each country’s government debt.
Spain and Greece, for example, have each accepted only about 4,000 – a meager amount, when compared to Jordan or Lebanon.
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