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Indeed, according to the World Bank, in 2013 remittances
amounted
to 20-24% of GDP in the Philippines and Indonesia, 42% in Tajikistan, 32% in Kyrgyzstan, 17% in Lebanon, 10.8% in Jordan, 9.9% in Yemen, and 6.6% in Egypt and Morocco.
In 2014, remittances by migrants to developing countries
amounted
to an estimated $436 billion – a sum that dwarfs the annual total that the international community spends on official development aid.
One question raised by the deal is whether the $130,000, which Cohen says he paid out of his own pocket without Trump’s knowledge,
amounted
to an illegal campaign contribution.
The answer is easy: relative to gross national income of almost $19 trillion, ODA spending by the US
amounted
to just 0.18% of GNI – roughly a quarter of the global target of 0.7% of GDP.
Hyperinflation and its social consequences
amounted
to an economic gauntlet for Brazil’s new leaders, and rising inequality posed a severe threat to the country’s democratic hopes.
The fall of the Soviet Union, which
amounted
to another disruption of the empire, was a great geopolitical catastrophe in Russia’s history.
As a recent study shows, the eurozone’s financial-liberalization process
amounted
to a more profound shift for the periphery than for the core, with the former having had less open capital accounts, more public banks relative to private ones, higher long-term interest rates, and lower credit-to-GDP ratios.
Non-military aid from the US and others has
amounted
to 50% of GDP, on average, every year since 2002.
And each time an ethical misstep
amounted
to nothing, Kalanick’s – and, by extension, the company’s – sense of impunity intensified, enabling him and others to continue to push the boundaries of business ethics and human decency.
Indeed, the Summit
amounted
to nothing more than an outsized photo opportunity.
In the last two years, however, the Ukrainian government has standardized energy pricing and eliminated subsidies (which had
amounted
to 10% of GDP and fueled illicit financial flows).
Throughout the 1990s, emerging countries’ combined GDP (at market exchange rates)
amounted
to barely one-third of the G7 countries’ combined GDP.
But, from 2015 to 2017, foreign direct investment in Russia
amounted
to less than 2% of GDP per year, on average – almost half what it had been in the preceding years – reflecting not just falling investment, but also reduced technology imports.
The answer may look obvious when comparing, say, Denmark (where public spending, excluding interest payments on debt,
amounted
to 58% of GDP in 2012) and the United States (where the same number was 35%).
While developing countries’ resources dwarf official development assistance (ODA), which
amounted
to $128 billion in 2012, they constitute upward of 40% of government budgets in fragile and conflict-affected states.
This approach – endorsed as a basis for negotiation in the recent EU Council –
amounted
to allowing some member states not to fulfill their supposedly binding Kyoto burden-sharing targets.
According to a recent RAND study, the United States’ funding for disaster loss-reduction research in 2003
amounted
to about $127 million – only 7% of the amount invested in climate-change research for that year.
HONG KONG – The relatively sudden death of Liu Xiaobo, the imprisoned Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize laureate,
amounted
to a great loss.
Against this background, it seems clear that, far from a sign of strength, the Chinese regime’s mistreatment of Liu
amounted
to an indication of its weakness, insecurity, and fear.
Meanwhile, China’s net foreign assets
amounted
to only 14.7% of GDP, compared to 67.5% for Japan and 48.3% for Germany (negative 41% of GDP for the US).
Total US saving – the sum total of the saving of families, businesses, and the government sector –
amounted
to just 2.6% of national income in the fourth quarter of 2015.
Then came the Falklands War, which
amounted
to a major victory for Thatcher.
This would have
amounted
to an eastward shift for Ukraine, with accession to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Eurasian Union ruling out any possibility of ever joining the EU.
Last June, Wade attempted what would have
amounted
to a constitutional coup.
In the last budget, revenue from amnesties
amounted
to eight billion euros, and the fiscal reductions for businesses were 7.5 billion euros.
At the end of 2015, the combined net asset position of China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan
amounted
to $7.3 trillion – almost exactly equivalent to the net international investment liability of the US.
The armistice that was agreed four years later, after about 20 million people had died,
amounted
only to an interlude before the horror of World War II.
This represents a record improvement relative to 2009, when the budget deficit
amounted
to nearly 10% of GDP.
To put this into context, ODA for 2015
amounted
to just one-third of Germany’s annual health-care bill.
The OECD estimates that fossil-fuel subsidies in member countries
amounted
to $55-90 billion annually from 2005 to 2011.
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