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But, again, the BRICs’ output growth
amounts
to creating the equivalent of another Italy every 12 months.
But this argument is flawed: bio-plastics are very expensive and energy-intensive to produce, and still contain large
amounts
of material derived from oil.
As a result, significant
amounts
of income are transferred from consumers to small groups protected by the law.
With retail investors borrowing large
amounts
to finance share purchases, participation in the stock market surged, effectively turning a sound bull market into a “mad cow.”
American policy is based overwhelmingly on the idea that Africa can lift itself out of extreme poverty through its own efforts, that aid is largely misused because of corruption, and that the United States already gives generous
amounts.
This tragically small sum
amounts
to just three cents for every $100 of US gross national product, which is less than two days of US military spending.
This is warranted, but there is no reason to believe that doing so will be decisive, especially with China providing massive
amounts
of credit with no strings attached.
But the
amounts
covered by common funding are only a small part of an operation’s total cost.
Long-standing programs in better-off countries received greater
amounts
of money, while a string of poorer candidates were once again overlooked.
For some health issues – such as elevated cholesterol – screening yields positive results: a simple blood test measures the
amounts
of good and bad cholesterol in the blood, making it easier to detect related cardiovascular disease, which could lead to heart attacks or strokes.
To be sure, if the market fell sharply, the Fed would activate the “Greenspan-Bernanke Put,” providing large
amounts
of liquidity to distressed intermediaries.
China’s real per capita GDP currently
amounts
to about 25% that of the United States.
Using the prices of credit default swaps, it shows that investors are accepting less compensation for bearing given
amounts
of credit risk: compensation per unit of default risk has fallen by 20% since early 2016.
Together, the sum of the current-account deficits of the United States, the United Kingdom, and major Commonwealth countries
amounts
to more than $800 billion, or roughly 60% of the global total of all external deficits.
Of course, some foreign central banks have signed currency-swap agreements with China and even hold small
amounts
of its currency in their reserve portfolios.
Other spending is split between the annually appropriated
amounts
(known as non-defense discretionary spending) and the programs in which spending follows from established rules that are not subject to annual review (known as the “mandatory” spending programs, primarily Social Security retirement benefits and health-care spending).
That
amounts
to a 6% increase above business as usual.
The five countries in trouble will need to place tens of billions of euros in new debt and roll over even larger
amounts
of old debt.
Considerable
amounts
of aid are directed toward “fragile states” to help stop or prevent civil war, but only 0.27% of international aid goes to projects with a “crime prevention” component.
Because institutional investors invest substantial
amounts
in such companies, they should be well informed about corporate governance issues.
Blaming the Spanish conquerors or the economic empires of the twentieth century cannot hide the fact that huge
amounts
of money financed corrupt governments, inefficient bureaucracies, big and useless “development” projects such as industrial plants or mineral mills, or a wide variety of subsidies to buy off powerful interest groups.
To be sure, the answer is not to print endless
amounts
of money or to relieve politicians of their responsibility to fix a broken system.
To this end, a significant share of North Korea’s military manpower, which currently
amounts
to more than 8.5% of the total labor force, could be used for more productive purposes.
The task
amounts
to this generation’s greatest opportunity to translate high aspirations into concrete targets.
Sensors in space, the sky, the lab, and the field, along with newfound opportunities for crowdsourcing and widespread adoption of the Internet and mobile telephones, are making large
amounts
of information available to those for whom it was previously out of reach.
The second strategy
amounts
to borrowing only as much as one has already saved.
In a region long inured to impunity among political and economic elites, this
amounts
to a tectonic shift.
The industrialized countries have long produced massive
amounts
of emissions and other kinds of pollution, while consuming a huge share of the world’s resources – including 90% of the world’s water – all in the name of their own development.
There is strong evidence, however, that it would not cost the world huge
amounts
to undertake large-scale carbon capture and storage.
The world is now on track to deplete its remaining “budget” for CO2 emissions, which now
amounts
to less than one trillion tons, in just 25 years.
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