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Together, the unaccounted-for inflation-adjusted deficit
amounted
to $345 billion – just from delaying needed infrastructure and climate abatement spending.
According to GK Dragonomics, China’s total corporate debt
amounted
to 108% of GDP in 2011, and reached a 15-year high of 122% of GDP in 2012.
More important, the appointments
amounted
to painting over the cracks: Only 39 of the 480 members of the Japanese Diet’s lower house, or 7.9%, are women.
In the US, the annual supplementary federal expenditure has
amounted
to only about 1% of GDP in recent years.
The victory in Iraq
amounted
to a success for the United Kingdom; it should not be usurped by a political party, not even his own.
In 2014, spending on fossil-fuel subsidies
amounted
to $20-30 billion in China, Egypt, Venezuela, and Algeria; $40 billion in Russia and India; and $70 billion in Iran and Saudi Arabia.
The last meeting was entitled “Encounter with Youth: Reality and Aspirations,” which
amounted
to a display of grand speeches by the authorities informing the country’s youth that conditions are ideal.
Rather than implementing an ambitious agenda, Tusk’s policy
amounted
to “keeping warm water in the taps.”
In 2012, eurozone leaders signed a fiscal compact aimed at controlling public debt – which, in total,
amounted
to 91.3% of GDP, according to the International Monetary Fund – by forcing countries to cut spending and raise taxes.
For both the PLO and Hamas, this refers to various UN resolutions and international public opinion, which have
amounted
to little more than lip service on the part of Western powers and Arab and Islamic leaders, whose statements raise false hopes, enticing Palestinian negotiators to harden their positions.
But, in the absence of any meaningful political process, it would appear that external demands for regime change back in 2011 – which
amounted
to a choice between Assad and extremist Sunni terrorist organizations – were not entirely thought through, to say the least.
In 1960, UK household debt
amounted
to less than 15% of GDP; by 2008, the ratio was over 90%.
Conquering Europe’s Debt MountainBERLIN – The International Monetary Fund estimates that the crisis-induced net cost of financial-sector support provided by G-20 countries in 2009
amounted
to 1.7% of GDP ($905 billion), while discretionary fiscal stimulus
amounted
to 2% of GDP in both 2009 and 2010.
In fact, the economy had not experienced strong growth since the mid-1970s, at which point per capita income still
amounted
to only one-third of that in the United States.
Between 1995 and 2002, notwithstanding the Stability Pact, total public spending in the euro area (net of interest and of capital spending) remained virtually unchanged: it
amounted
to 41% of the euro zone's GDP in 1995; it will amount to 40.7% of GDP this year.
Back in 2002, all of China’s major banks were awash in non-performing loans (NPLs), which in some cases
amounted
to more than 10% of the total balance sheet.
Her statement, with its allusion to the Cold War-era Iron Curtain,
amounted
to an implicit admission that the central assumption guiding US policy on China since the 1990’s – that assisting China’s economic rise would usher in greater political openness there – has gone awry.
China’s Live Stress TestHONG KONG – The plunge in China’s stock markets, which has sent shockwaves reverberating around the world, has
amounted
to a real-time stress test for the country.
At the end of 2013, when the Shanghai index was 2,116, the Chinese debt market
amounted
to 256% of GDP, and stock-market capitalization was 36% of GDP, implying an unsustainable crude leverage ratio of 7.2:1.
Indeed, according to the political economist Victor Shih, the interest that accrued to all debts in China in 2010
amounted
to 80% of incremental nominal GDP.
But official development assistance (ODA) last year
amounted
to $119.6 billion, or just 0.31% of the developed countries’ GDP – not even half of the UN’s target of 0.7% of GDP.
All too often, social democracy has
amounted
to populism, opposing any cuts in public expenditures and even deregulation, which would have enhanced productivity.
But it was the public that really stepped up, with an outpouring of contributions to the Kerala government’s disaster relief fund that
amounted
to more than twice the funds so far provided by the national authorities.
At the trough, the eurozone’s real GDP
amounted
to 8% less than the 1995-2007 trend; today, it is 15% lower.
After years of frustration, North Korea began to implement in 2007 what
amounted
to a “grand bargain.”
All of this
amounted
to a human and economic disaster in the making.
Rejecting dietetic advice
amounted
to rejecting moral wisdom.
The extra value provided by globalization
amounted
to $7.8 trillion in 2014 alone.
With no antiretroviral therapy, the prescription for HIV/AIDS was food and rest – meaning that infection essentially
amounted
to a death sentence.
To put it in perspective, the Christmas bonuses paid this year on Wall Street – just the bonuses –
amounted
to $24 billion.
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