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Post-mortems of the gathering
amounted
to something of an indictment of the increasingly rudderless global order.
It therefore
amounted
to a devastating blow to India’s aspirations to be the undisputed leader of the Non-Aligned Movement.
But land purchases have
amounted
to less than 15% of China’s official fixed-capital formation rate – or around 10% of total investment in fixed assets – since 2004.
Data from a growing number of governments suggest that, so far this century, such losses have
amounted
to around $2.5 trillion.
In recent years, Chinese household debt
amounted
to about 12% of GDP, compared to a massive 95% in the US.
But while this change strengthened the central government’s hand, it undermined local governments’ ability to sustain their spending, which still
amounted
to some 80% of total government expenditure.
And John Quiggin of the University of Queensland was even more blunt: the 2004 conference
amounted
to “exercises in political propaganda,” and the “panel members were slanted toward conclusions previously supported by Lomborg.”
But the cost of bank bailouts during Turkey’s self-inflicted crisis 12 years ago
amounted
to approximately 25% of GDP.
It is hard for me to believe that if Greece had abandoned the euro in 2010, the economic fallout would have
amounted
to even a quarter of that.
The Financial Stability Board has estimated that total global shadow-banking assets in 2011
amounted
to $67 trillion, with the US accounting for $23 trillion, the eurozone for $22 trillion, and the United Kingdom for $9 trillion.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that in 2016, investment in the oil and gas sector totaled $649 billion, and that fossil-fuel subsidies within the G20 countries
amounted
to $72 billion.
But, as GIPS’ central-bank lending came at the expense of central-bank lending within the eurozone’s exporting countries, the policy
amounted
to a forced capital export from these countries to the GIPS.
The external trade of Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil within the area amounted, respectively, to 65%, 33%, and 15% of their total exports.
Although this is not a particularly ambitious objective – after all, Germany’s current-account surplus at the time
amounted
to 7.8% GDP – achieving it is vital to the country’s continued prosperity.
In 2012, Foshan’s debt-service costs – financed, as in other Chinese cities, largely through extra-budgetary land sales –
amounted
to 47% of its fiscal revenue.
But Foshan is in a reasonably strong position to manage its local-government debt, because its fixed-capital investments since 2004 have
amounted
to roughly 30% of GDP, compared to 70% for some other local governments.
But bilateral trade
amounted
to only $18.4 billion in 2011-2012 – far smaller than India-China trade and a pittance compared to Japan-China trade.
British spread-betting markets for home prices, and some retail online markets, have never
amounted
to much either.
This
amounted
to an escalation of China’s already assertive stance in the region, with Chinese President Xi Jinping routinely sending maritime-surveillance and fishery law-enforcement ships to the waters surrounding the islands, spurring protests in South Korea and Japan.
That
amounted
to an increase of more than 21% in the global number of “banked” individuals.
For these groups, globalization
amounted
to redistribution.
In 2014, exports from the eurozone
amounted
to nearly €2 trillion ($2.6 trillion at the time) – more than those from China.
But, because 20 years of efforts to address climate change have not
amounted
to anything serious, it might be worth exploring a different strategy this time.
A 2013 World Bank study estimated that welfare costs and lost labor income due to air pollution
amounted
to nearly 8.5% of India’s GDP.
Since 2000, the largest annual reduction in the US-China merchandise trade imbalance
amounted
to $41 billion, and that occurred in 2009, during the depths of the Great Recession.
Standard & Poor’s found that, a year later, these firms’ total debt
amounted
to $14.2 trillion, eclipsing the $13.1 trillion of outstanding debt in the United States and making China the world’s largest issuer of corporate debt.
Indeed, Chinese firms’ profitability
amounted
to just over 6% last year, with 2012 profits for China’s 500 largest (mostly state-owned) corporations barely exceeding 2%.
In the eyes of Western (including Japanese) political leaders, it has never
amounted
to more than a small, fringe country whose economic failings made it appear to be poised perpetually on the edge of self-destruction.
In Hungary, for example, foreign-currency lending
amounted
to 34% of the country’s GDP at the end of June 2008.
At a time of rising tensions with the United States, the attack
amounted
to a golden opportunity for the Kremlin to condemn its rival.
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