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Relative to today's levels of spending on official development assistance and global public goods, however, the
amounts
are enormous.
Its community model – which requires cooperation, negotiation, and compromise to reach any consequential decision –
amounts
to a check on extremism, because no member country can push radical policies forward without other members pushing back.
But, in a country where the average annual income is less than $800, small
amounts
can make a huge difference.
Like scientists, they prefer to work with huge
amounts
of data, which is why the US government wants a record of every call and financial transaction made by every inhabitant of the country.
On the contrary, it
amounts
to a surrender of influence.
In some parts of the world – and certainly in most of the West – it already is, since large
amounts
of information are now accessible to almost anyone.
For example, a capital-gains tax, whatever its distributional intent,
amounts
to a tax on becoming rich.
So households accumulate large
amounts
of cash as a hedge against the possibility that those funds will be needed some day for hospital care.
Urban sprawl and congestion are spreading, fueling unrest among farmers who feel undercompensated for the loss of their land – a vital source of collateral for local-government debt (which now
amounts
to 30% of GDP).
This would mean using agricultural and other waste, which would otherwise rot and produce nearly equal
amounts
of CO2 and methane, an even more dangerous greenhouse gas.
But there are other taxes that can raise significant
amounts
of revenue with a much less negative impact on the economy.
Chemical treatment means that processed bottled water may lack fluoride, which is naturally present in most groundwater or is added in tiny
amounts
to municipal water supplies to promote dental health.
It
amounts
to claiming that the factors of production will always be fully employed, and that, in Cochrane’s words, “if the government borrows a dollar from you, that is a dollar that you do not spend, or that you do not lend to a company to spend on new investment.”
The five countries negotiating with North Korea agreed to take steps of their own, including provision of specific
amounts
of fuel oil, in exchange for steps taken by the North.
Deploying BECCS, however, would require the world to maintain an area 1.5 times the size of India, full of fields or forests capable of absorbing vast
amounts
of carbon dioxide, while still providing enough food for a global population that is expected to exceed nine billion by 2050.
Those who disdain environmental concerns have been ousted at the polls in large numbers, companies invest huge
amounts
in environmental technologies, states are suing car producers for their climate-adverse policies, and the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol have long been surpassed by some states – a lesson for German and European cities and municipalities.
But, until now, it had to lend massive
amounts
to banks without being able to judge their soundness, because all of that information was in the hands of national authorities who guarded it jealously and typically denied problems until it was too late.
Add to that financial-market incentives, and huge
amounts
of capital could be attracted to ESG investments.
But this will be true only if new twenty-first-century technologies require significant
amounts
of labor to develop and install, compared to the jobs they disrupt and eliminate.
And, in fact, Pakistan needs to build about a half-dozen such plants – in addition to the two already being built by the Chinese near Karachi – to address its energy shortfall, which
amounts
to an estimated 5,000 megawatts annually.
Whether this
amounts
to removing the bottom rungs on the ladder of development remains to be seen.
Climate change
amounts
to an existential threat to the entire global economy as we know it.
None mentioned the Trump administration’s rejection of international institutions, either, or the attacks on the domestic media and judiciary – which
amounts
to an assault on the system of checks and balances that underpins US democracy.
This cyber army now
amounts
to a well-oiled machine with a formidable presence on Twitter, Facebook, and WhatsApp.
In keeping with that tradition, Laudatio Si
amounts
to the strongest statement against harming animals ever made by a pope in a document as authoritative as an encyclical.
Given that agriculture
amounts
to roughly 30% of sub-Saharan Africa’s GDP, and accounts for more than 60% of employment in most African countries, the sector’s development could reduce poverty in the region substantially.
But then the same people typically smile and point out that investors from other parts of the world still want to lend the US vast
amounts
of money, keeping long-term interest rates low and allowing the country to run big deficits for the foreseeable future.
But what this really
amounts
to is taking on more risk, typically in an unregulated, unsupervised way – and with very little effective governance within the banks themselves (again, Admati explains why bank executives like it this way).
If we make provisions for long lives that are cut short, we will have wasted huge
amounts
of precious economic resources.
Slow growth of greenhouse-gas emissions in rapidly-growing economies must be accompanied by credible promises to deliver massive
amounts
of assistance in the mighty tasks of industrialization, education, and urbanization that China, India, Mexico, Brazil, and many other developing countries face.
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