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After decades of destruction and neglect, Tibet has benefited from enormous
amounts
of Chinese money and energy to modernize the country.
Digital platforms will likely be subjected to higher transparency standards for all “sponsored content,” not just to disclose the identity of advertisers, but also to limit the
amounts
spent on these messages.
Similarly, Italy’s real-estate tax
amounts
to about 2% of total government revenue, compared to the OECD average of 4% – and the government intends to slash it further.
And China’s per capita income – a more accurate measure of economic sophistication –
amounts
to only 20% of America’s, and will take decades, at least, to catch up (if it ever does).
Furthermore, President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda has created what
amounts
to a one-party state during his 24 years in power, yet he is feted in the West as one of Africa’s visionary leaders.
In Lepper's last speech as deputy speaker he accused many famous politicians of taking bribes, naming the amounts, times, and places where the bribery took place.
Rapid displacement of massive
amounts
of human labor is not a new occurrence.
Intact tropical and northern forests, as well as savannas and coastal ecosystems, store huge
amounts
of carbon accumulated over centuries.
And science predicts that, unless we severely constrain consumption of oil and coal around the world, the climate will continue to warm, increasing ocean volume and melting huge
amounts
of ice in the Arctic and Antarctic – thereby causing disastrous rises in sea level.
These requests range from questions about the health hazards of trace
amounts
of arsenic in drinking water, to questions about how best to support various forms of scientific research.
Both types can be found in varying
amounts
in all emissions.
Although DDT is a (modestly) toxic substance, there is a world of difference between applying large
amounts
of it in the environment – as farmers did before it was banned – and using it carefully and sparingly to fight mosquitoes and other disease-carrying insects.
(When it is used at all now, it is now sprayed indoors in small
amounts
to prevent mosquitoes from nesting.)
Moreover, the Venetian deficit
amounts
to just 3.4% of Venice’s massive GDP.
Burning natural gas to heat oily dirt releases large
amounts
of carbon dioxide, exacerbating global warming.
America's unwillingness to provide small sums to wage peace contrasts sharply with the huge
amounts
Congress quickly granted to wage war.
This includes not only the mobilization of private investment, but also the deployment of the vast
amounts
of technical, operational, and locally tailored expertise that private companies have gained in the course of doing business around the world.
Far from holding Pakistan’s generals accountable for the American blood on their hands, the US has provided them large
amounts
of funding – so much, in fact, that Pakistan has been one of America’s largest aid recipients.
The debt held by non-financial enterprises
amounts
to 113% of GDP in China, compared to 72% in the US and 99% in Japan.
Recent data suggest that, notwithstanding recent wage increases, consumption
amounts
to only about 35% of GDP.
With a high household savings rate of around 30% of disposable income, per capita disposable income
amounts
to roughly half of per capita GDP.
This
amounts
to a generous – and largely hidden – subsidy from the Fed to the financial sector.
Ultimately, limiting the ECB to its conventional tool kit
amounts
to accepting the risk of a eurozone collapse.
Uzbekistan has exported vast
amounts
of cotton to the outside world via Iran, while Australia has sent exports, such as food processing equipment, to Turkmenistan through Iran.
Trump may think that his approach to China
amounts
to putting “America first.”
In July, Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) won control of both houses of parliament – a resounding electoral victory that
amounts
to the strongest political mandate any Japanese leader has received in many years.
But the Iranian government is under economic and political pressure to supply increasing
amounts
of electricity to its growing population and fragile economy.
It would not be a surprise if the US Securities and Exchange Commission determined that a great deal of recent money-raising activity (known as Initial Coin Offerings) in this industry actually
amounts
to the issuance of securities, which would trigger the application of various rules and requirements.
After all, the Sunni Middle East – led by a Saudi Arabia for which the quest for regional dominance
amounts
to a struggle for regime survival – will not accept being led by the rising Shia empire, especially if that means clashing head-on with Israel and the US.
According to OECD estimates, China’s current expenditure on R&D
amounts
to only 1.3% of GDP, compared to 3.2% in Japan and an average of 2.5-2.6% in South Korea, Taiwan, and the United States.
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