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Last year, sales of Sovaldi and Harvoni – another drug the company sells for $94,000 –
amounted
to $12.4 billion.
For example, according to official estimates, Spain’s public debt, which
amounted
to only about 36% of GDP when the crisis began, has almost tripled – and the actual figure may be much higher.
The picture is even worse in Syria, where, from the outset of the country’s civil war, Iranian support for President Bashar al-Assad has
amounted
to a criminal act for which Iran’s leaders should be tried at the International Criminal Court.
Psychiatric diagnosis has also been vulnerable to politicization, nowhere more so than in the former Soviet Union, which locked up political dissidents in mental hospitals on what
amounted
to a charge of schizophrenia.
His political opponents quickly observed that this
amounted
to an admission that the first stimulus had failed.
In 2016, however, the US trade deficit with China
amounted
to $347 billion, accounting for 44% of its total deficit.
According to just-published budget data, during the first three months of 2015, non-defense spending
amounted
to 16.5% of quarterly GDP, as planned; but military expenditure exceeded 9% of quarterly GDP – more than double the budgeted amount.
This
amounted
to transferring annually 8-10% of Germany’s national income, or 65-76% of its exports.
The discounted cost of the resulting stream of fixed annual costs totaled $800 billion, but damages avoided by this approach
amounted
to a discounted value of only $685 billion.
An evaluation of US Department of Energy efficiency programs found that the net benefits
amounted
to $30 billion – an excellent return for an investment of roughly $7 billion over 22 years (in 1999 dollars).
At the peak of the crisis, Spain’s current-account deficit
amounted
to an unprecedented 10% of GDP.
Despite the data’s richness, only two indicators consistently attract widespread attention: net monthly job creation (which
amounted
to 169,000 in August) and the unemployment rate (7.3% in August, the lowest since December 2008).
It did not indicate that the deal
amounted
to a comprehensive solution to all of the international community’s disagreements with Iran.
In the weeks leading up to the tragedy’s centenary, the debate over whether the killings
amounted
to genocide has predictably flared anew.
One of the most glaring features of this pattern is the disparity between China’s GDP growth, which has averaged nearly 10% annually over the last few decades, and its employment growth, which has
amounted
to just 1-2% annually.
In Germany, a study by the Bertelsmann Foundation, to be released next month, shows that the net fiscal contribution per migrant
amounted
to €3,300 ($4,260) in 2012.
Meanwhile, China’s bank assets
amounted
to 215% of GDP – more than double America’s 95%.
In 2012, inter-Korean trade
amounted
to $2 billion – only 0.2% of South Korea’s total trade, but 29% of North Korea’s.
This, according to Weber,
amounted
to an “abuse of institutional propaganda.”
In addition to experiencing an out-migration crisis, the island sought what
amounted
to bankruptcy protection in May 2017.
But the entire savings (assuming people didn’t use more energy later in the night to make up for lost time)
amounted
to just ten tons of CO2 – equivalent to just one Dane’s annual emissions for a full year.
In a study of 30 sub-Saharan African countries, we estimate that total capital flight for the period 1970-1996
amounted
to $187 billion.
According to a study by the Insurance Information Institute, expenditures on non-life insurance in 2003
amounted
to only 0.83% of GDP in Indonesia, 1.19% of GDP in Thailand, and 0.62% of GDP in India, compared with 5.23% of GDP in the United States.
National savings
amounted
to roughly 50% of GDP in 2005, which apparently means that households are so afraid of hospital bills, school fees, and the down-payment on the new apartment they dream of that they save every penny they earn.
In the eurozone, for example, aggregate demand in many member countries has been constrained by, among other things, Germany’s large current-account surplus, which
amounted
to 8.5% of GDP in 2015.
Emphasizing the temporary nature of these factors, the reports insist that, though world GDP growth
amounted
to roughly 3% during the first half of the year, it will pick up in the second half.
Before 1939, wages and profits in the financial sector in the United States
amounted
to less than 1% of GDP; now they stand at 7-8% of GDP.
This prideful interpretation
amounted
to the siren song of an extremely accommodative monetary policy.
When US-based AES Silk Road failed to transform Georgia’s energy system, Chubais’s RAO UES bought AES’s holdings and other assets that
amounted
to 75% of the country’s electricity network.
As Putin declared last year, the Soviet Union’s collapse dealt a “devastating blow” to Russia’s “cultural and spiritual codes,” and subsequent “attempts to civilize Russia from abroad”
amounted
to “primitive borrowing.”
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