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The
amounts
involved are large enough to be of macroeconomic significance, especially as they would be spent almost immediately and produce a multiplier effect.
He blames Europe for Italy’s mistakes, such as piling up massive public debt, which now
amounts
to 132% of GDP.
The basic problem is that the country’s super-generous welfare state (public spending
amounts
to about 57% of GDP in 2010, compared to 51% in the United Kingdom and 48% in Germany) stifles the growth needed for the euro to remain viable.
He thinks that America’s $500 billion trade deficit with China
amounts
to a loss, the result of “incompetent” US administrations allowing their Chinese counterparts to take advantage of them.
And then there is America’s current-account deficit, which is not necessarily a bad thing, as it implies the acquisition of large
amounts
of foreign capital.
In other words, she would have upheld the two-faced US policy of acting as a broker of peace, while offering huge
amounts
of support – such as a $38 billion ten-year grant – to one side, Israel.
These are hardly trivial amounts, and more renminbi appreciation can be expected in the years to come.
The combined land area of the Senkaku and Spratly Islands
amounts
to barely 11 square kilometers; but the islands are surrounded by rich hydrocarbon reserves.
Indeed, such a system
amounts
to a multidisciplinary triumph of human ingenuity and cooperation – involving engineering, hydrology, governance, and urban planning – with far-reaching complementary impacts on both human health and economic development.
Operating big financial firms with small
amounts
of equity capital and a lot of debt may be in the interest of their managers, but it is definitely not in the interest of the rest of society.
HONG KONG – Since the Cold War ended, the West has invested huge
amounts
of resources in efforts to induce political liberalization in China, including through programs to promote the rule of law, civil society, transparency, and government accountability.
At any given time, the global livestock population
amounts
to more than 150 billion, compared to just 7.2 billion humans – meaning that livestock have a larger direct ecological footprint than we do.
Making matters worse, the livestock are injected with large
amounts
of hormones and antibiotics.
From a historical perspective, CFT essentially
amounts
to a unilateral activation of the scarce-currency clause (Article 7) of the Bretton Woods Agreement, which allowed the International Monetary Fund to declare “scarce” the currency of a country running a persistent trade surplus, permitting other members to discriminate against its goods.
After that war, UN inspectors found and destroyed huge
amounts
of chemical and biological warheads as well as facilities to produce nuclear weapons.
This
amounts
to an alarming quest for control over a strategically crucial corridor through which $5.3 trillion in trade flows each year.
Politically, however, the agreement
amounts
to a small revolution, because it has shifted the balance of power within the eurozone: Germany is strong, but not strong enough to get away with isolating itself completely from Europe’s other major players.
The recommendation, which contains a long section trying to show that Japan’s 1987 and 1988 experience was not damaging, will be read in China simply as a statement that the US wants China to follow Japan in committing what
amounts
to economic hara-kiri.
The political obsession with a better exchange-rate regime
amounts
to an invitation to private markets to make large
amounts
of money by betting against those central banks that are pressed by politicians to take a particular view of the exchange rate.
US Treasury Direct, for example, already offers retail customers an extremely low-cost way to hold very short-term Treasury debt for
amounts
as little as $100, tradable to others in the system.
This difference will become even more pronounced as increasing
amounts
of debt relief are delivered under the Initiative for Heavily-Indebted Poor Countries (HIPCs), because a principal condition for this assistance is that money saved is channeled into poverty reduction.
To arrive at an informed answer, we need to work out how the planet will look in 2100 if we invest different
amounts
in adaptation and carbon cuts.
When the euro was introduced, regulators allowed banks to buy unlimited
amounts
of government bonds without setting aside any equity capital, and the ECB discounted all eurozone government bonds on equal terms.
Governments managed to limit the damage by pumping huge
amounts
of money into the global economy and slashing interest rates to near zero.
4.Metropolitan agriculture in a rapidly urbanizing world can provide high-quality produce on small
amounts
of land.
On the other hand, there is a growing sense that America’s current economic malaise – high unemployment and real-wage stagnation for low- and middle-skilled workers – stems from out-of-control fiscal policy, which has been taking ever larger
amounts
of resources from young savers and giving them to old spenders.
More recently, the authorities launched an open-data initiative, making vast
amounts
of government data easily accessible.
Rather, the demand for a right of return
amounts
to an effort to reverse the consequences of their defeat in 1948, when the Arab world went to war to prevent the state of Israel from being born.
For Muslim-majority Bangladesh, this struggle within Islam
amounts
to a battle for the soul of the country.
Under the IMF’s current lending framework, if it is “highly probable” that a borrower’s debt is sustainable, the Fund will extend a conditional loan, even for large amounts, to tide it over.
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