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Given that American companies have large
amounts
of profits abroad that have never been subject to US tax, the transition could even be carried out in a way that raises net revenue.
But US exports are other nations’ imports, so Obama’s argument
amounts
to telling others to lose their jobs.
Long-term development aid – which, globally,
amounts
to eight times the amount allocated to humanitarian interventions – must be available to countries confronting large refugee inflows, including middle-income countries like Lebanon and Jordan that are normally not considered eligible.
It has become much more capital- and skill-intensive, with greatly diminished potential to absorb large
amounts
of labor from the countryside.
The United States, Europe, and Japan have produced comparable
amounts
of wealth over the long term.
In this sense, the Yellow Vest uprising is not unlike a French Brexit, in that it
amounts
to an act of shooting oneself in the foot.
Why, then, do candidates spend enormous
amounts
on campaigning?
Privacy for RefugeesLONDON – With people living so much of their lives online nowadays, it is easier than ever for governments and companies to collect large
amounts
of personal information.
In fact, the
amounts
of antioxidants that lend protection are not known and probably differ among individuals.
Saudi Arabia seeks the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and believes that America’s agreement with Russia to destroy the Assad regime’s chemical weapons
amounts
to renunciation of that goal.
Given Afghanistan’s vital importance for the security of the subcontinent, India’s assistance program there already
amounts
to more than $1.2 billion – modest from the standpoint of Afghan needs, but large for a non-traditional donor – and is set to rise further.
On both sides of the Atlantic, market-oriented environmental regulation has in effect been superseded over the last five years by older “command-and-control” approaches, by which the government dictates who should use which technologies, in what amounts, to reduce which emissions.
In the twenty-first century, the turn away from cooperation and integration
amounts
to burying one’s head in the sand and hoping the dangers will pass.
Even the commitment of the accord to provide
amounts
approaching $30 billion for the period 2010-2012 for adaptation and mitigation appears paltry next to the hundreds of billions of dollars that have been doled out to the banks in the bailouts of 2008-2009.
Most ethical principles would suggest that, if one is distributing what
amounts
to “money” around the world, one should give more (per capita) to the poor.
Of course, the IMF was fast to mobilize vast
amounts
of money to throw into the pot once it boiled over, but its lack of decisive remedies has failed to move countries out of danger.
Where was the IMF when fragile Korean banks borrowed huge
amounts
abroad - with overnight maturities - to put the money in Brazilian and Russian bonds?
$5 billion
amounts
to a mere $5 per person per year, since there are 1 billion people living in rich countries that can donate.
But Chinese officials’ piecemeal efforts to restore confidence in the country’s exports – for example, establishing limits for trace
amounts
of melamine in dairy products and tightening quality-control regulations for the dairy industry – are unlikely to reassure foreign consumers or importers.
For some, a renewable energy source produced from organic matter
amounts
to a magic wand in the fight against climate change.
Acknowledging that man-made climate change is real, but arguing that carbon cuts are not the answer,
amounts
to staking out a middle ground in the global warming debate – which means being attacked from both sides.
But, given the huge size of China’s credit bubble and the enormous
amounts
of money needed to recapitalize the banking system, only some of them will be bailed out.
For example, lending small
amounts
of money or writing off debts to help the extreme poor are intended to help the most vulnerable, and both approaches seem entirely sensible.
According to the IPCC, the total impact of climate change
amounts
to about 0% of GDP now, and in 2100 will cost 2-4% of GDP.
Given the suffering that his executive order is causing, it is beginning to look as if he might just be that unethical – or, what in this case
amounts
to the same thing, that crazy.
Opponents of debt mutualization, especially in northern Europe, often argue that, in the absence of political unification, it
amounts
to putting the cart before the horse.
If I borrow euros at 4% for ten years, I know that I will have to pay back 4% of the principal owed as interest in euros every year, but I don’t know what this
amounts
to.
The Stern Review Report on the Economics of Climate Change
amounts
to a call to action: it argues that huge future costs of global warming can be avoided by incurring relatively modest cost today.
Since the base rate of economic growth (before calculating the climate change effect) was taken to be 1.3% per year, a loss of 20% in the year 2200
amounts
to reducing the annual growth rate to 1.2%.
By pursuing a Congress-supported pivot toward a more comprehensive economic-policy stance, his administration’s policy surge could also spur the private sector to begin using its large
amounts
of cash not for short-term financial engineering, but for growth-enhancing investments in plant, equipment, and people.
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