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While the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) is already in place to stop the smuggling of nuclear contraband worldwide, the International Atomic Energy Agency reports continued trafficking of small
amounts
of nuclear material.
The deal struck by the US and Russia triggered widespread relief in most Western capitals, where political leaders simply are not prepared for military intervention, even if Syria’s government is killing its own people with poison gas (on this score, the agreement
amounts
to a confession by Assad).
Indeed, in this case, not talking
amounts
to having no strategy at all – a seriously risky proposition.
To compare, M2 in the United States
amounts
to only roughly 63% of GDP.
Trump has already pledged to scrap the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership – a decision that
amounts
to a gift to China, whether he realizes it or not.
While the focus for the moment is on public-sector waste, that waste pales in comparison to the waste of resources resulting from a malfunctioning private financial sector, which in America already
amounts
to trillions of dollars.
In a region with weak enforcement and few mechanisms for redress, protection restricted to prevailing labor standards
amounts
to no protection at all.
Often, their targets had much fewer resources, which meant that a libel suit requiring both sides to spend substantial
amounts
could be effective in silencing critics even if it did not succeed.
Its budget of $7 billion in 2015 may seem large, but it
amounts
to only about $100 per displaced person – not enough to cover even essentials like food and shelter.
In many developing countries, 60-80% of solid waste is organic, with open dumping causing excessive
amounts
of methane to enter the atmosphere.
Twelve of the world’s 15 most water-scarce countries – Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Israel, and Palestine – are in the region, and in eight, available fresh water
amounts
annually to less than 250 cubic meters per person.
As a result, large
amounts
of radiation, on a scale comparable to Chernobyl, have already been released into the air, earth, and ocean.
These pools contain vast
amounts
of long-lived radioactivity, typically in a simple building, without multiple engineered layers of containment.
While huge
amounts
of money have been poured into physical infrastructure, public expenditure on human capital and social security is below the world average.
It
amounts
to a permanent and valuable resource for research into vector control and disease transmission in Bangladesh.
They say this is not a “containment” strategy, but it
amounts
to nothing less.
The challenge here lies in the fact that common deposit insurance is incompatible with banks’ current practice of holding very large
amounts
of their own government’s debt.
They understood that the problem was not a lack of food per se, but a lack of fertilizer – then they figured out how to make endless
amounts
of fertilizer.
At the top of the list is clean energy, which will enable us to head off the global warming caused by the combustion of massive
amounts
of coal, oil, and gas worldwide.
In seeking to co-opt the Taliban – an effort that has resulted in the Taliban establishing what
amounts
to a diplomatic mission in Doha, Qatar – the US is bestowing legitimacy on a thuggish militia that enforces medieval practices in the areas under its control.
In neither scenario does it make sense to hold huge
amounts
of dollar-denominated assets today.
For example, the International Finance Corporation’s China Utility Energy Efficiency Program has been highly successful in using small
amounts
of risk capital and money from donors to generate large
amounts
of loans, with a stunning leverage factor of more 100:1.
He argued that vast
amounts
of foreign capital flowed through US banks to the housing sector because international investors appreciated “the depth and sophistication of the country’s financial markets (which among other things have allowed households easy access to housing wealth).”
Banks’ balance sheets were by then filled with vast
amounts
of risky mortgages, packaged in complicated forms that made the risks hard to evaluate.
That
amounts
to almost a thousand people who have found jobs through the program so far.
Today, however, several (though not all) emerging-market countries are benefiting from years of considerable efforts to reduce their financial vulnerability by accumulating huge
amounts
of international reserves.
This “neutral basket” approach would permit the ECB to purchase substantial volumes of Italian and Spanish bonds, but only if it was also buying even larger
amounts
of French and German bonds.
And China’s banks pumped massive
amounts
of credit into the country’s economy, enabling it to sustain import demand, which was critical to the global recovery.
The final challenge facing Spain is government debt, which currently
amounts
to nearly 100% of GDP.
The fact that UberPOP drivers, unlike taxi drivers, do not cover passenger insurance also
amounts
to unfair competition, and must be remedied.
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