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According to a recent assessment by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, global financial flows for mitigation and adaptation measures
amounted
to $340-650 billion in 2011-2012.
The continuing optimism of Fed forecasts, and the reluctance to force banks to shore up their capital – often clothed in too-big-to-fail-rhetoric –
amounted
to serious policy failures.
By the end of 2010, ECB loans, which originated primarily from Germany’s Bundesbank,
amounted
to €340 billion.
Walser’s stance
amounted
to a desperate call to allow his country to shape a new national identity – one that reflected its resolute repudiation of fascism and adoption of democracy, rather than its highly regrettable (and regretted) history.
In the last quarter of 2015 alone, the net capital outflow
amounted
to $367 billion.
And even after substantial debt reduction, their public debt at the end of 2015 still
amounted
to 177% and 132% of GDP, respectively.
Others, following the government’s retreat, grandiosely thought the events
amounted
to a revolution.
The EU, established to break the destructive cycle of European nationalism that had facilitated the rise of two totalitarian systems and caused two world wars,
amounted
to the creation of a prototype of a humane world order.
As a result, by 2006, global liquidity
amounted
to more than twice the value of world GDP.
Their big corporations helped entrench racist regimes with notorious contract-labor systems that
amounted
to little more than slavery.
In countries like Greece and Spain, this
amounted
to roughly 14% of GDP following the launch of the euro.
For starters, there was the perception that the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq and Afghanistan
amounted
to a downgrading of US interests in the Middle East.
In 2002-2012, growth in private-sector investment averaged around 20%; by the end of last year, it
amounted
to just 10%, and from January to August of this year, it reached just 2.1%, including a stunning 1.2% contraction in July.
But, at the end of 2014, public debt
amounted
to 175% of GDP, having increased from its 2009 level of 127%.
And neither
amounted
to a “threat to democracy” when compared to President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s proposal to pack the Supreme Court with additional justices who would uphold his economic program.
Fraudulent public expenditure cost 2.4% of GDP, siphoning off privatization proceeds
amounted
to almost 2.1% of GDP, and smuggling caused losses of more than 1.1% of GDP.
In 2010, the European Union’s expenditure on public pension systems
amounted
to 11.3% of GDP.
According to Frontex, the European border-management agency, the 26,460 migrants detected crossing the EU’s external borders in the eastern Mediterranean in March
amounted
to less than half the figure recorded in February.
Indeed, the Marquis de Custine’s Letters from Russia suggested that Russian civilization
amounted
to little more than the mimicry of monkeys.
In Greece, tax increases
amounted
to 13% of GDP during the same period, but the tax ratio increased by only six percentage points.
The targets set by the MDGs basically
amounted
to a list of “things that would be good to achieve.”
In 2017, the latter
amounted
to $330 billion worldwide.
Indeed, according to a recent report by Parliament’s foreign affairs select committee, Cameron’s “considered view not to instruct key departments including the Foreign Office to plan for the possibility that the electorate would vote to leave the EU
amounted
to gross negligence.”
In its most recent survey of foreign-exchange markets, in April 2013, the Bank for International Settlements found that renminbi-dollar trades averaged $113 billion a day, whereas direct renminbi-euro trades totaled a mere $1 billion, while direct renminbi-sterling trades
amounted
to even less.
In contrast, official US aid
amounted
to only 0.18% of gross national income, or 18 cents for every $100 dollars earned.
It is this buffer – which
amounted
to $785 billion in the 2000-2011 period – that protected the economy from a larger shock when the global financial crisis erupted in 2009, and that has financed Russia’s foreign-policy initiatives, including its recent cooperation with Ukraine.
Neither was involved in the writing of this commentary, and their contributions
amounted
to 1.3% of Bruegel’s total 2012 budget.
At the end of September, these claims
amounted
to €819.4 billion, with the Bundesbank accounting for €715.7 billion, which was 46% of Germany’s net external assets at midyear.
Conversely, the Target debt of the Southern European countries – Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain (GIPS) –
amounted
to €816.5 billion.
So the Russian government proposed what would have
amounted
to a full fiscal union with Britain and France for war-related finances.
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