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Now that the US is producing massive
amounts
of low-price natural gas and ethane, Saudi Arabia's competitive advantage – and market share – is beginning to deteriorate.
Yet his frugal lifestyle shows that he does not particularly enjoy spending large
amounts
of money.
Many observers regard the lobbying process as a kind of legalized corruption, in which huge
amounts
of money change hands, often in the form of campaign financing, in return for specific policies and votes.
If Africa had another $15-$20 billion per year in development aid in 2010, as promised, with the
amounts
rising over future years (also as promised), millions of children would be spared an agonizing death from preventable diseases, and tens of millions of children would be able to get an education.
The Fed and the European Central Bank have recently pumped massive
amounts
of liquidity into the global financial system.
Liu’s release
amounts
to a small but important step forward in the long and difficult march toward a world in which all people’s basic human rights are protected – the ultimate objective of the international human-rights movement.
Rather than open a checking account – and maintain the required minimum balance of $1,000 – I did what Japanese did: carry large
amounts
of yen and pay for everything in cash.
Its per capita income (in terms of purchasing power parity), just one-fifth of Japan’s in 1970,
amounts
to almost 95% of Japan’s today.
In a modern economy, money has a well-defined real value because governments accept it as payment of taxes and issue debts in defined monetary amounts, and because central banks ensure that total monetary creation, by either the state or the private banking system, grows at a pace compatible with relatively low and stable inflation.
But it lacks a sense of strategic urgency, which, given rising international tensions across Asia,
amounts
to a serious strategic blunder.
With total estimated federal government spending for 2017 of around $4 trillion, that
amounts
to about $1 for every $2,000 that the government is likely to spend.
To them, Britain’s quest to adopt its own rules and standards
amounts
to a frivolous inconvenience.
Like outright default or the restructuring of debts to official creditors, such arrears are often swept under the rug, possibly because they tend to involve low-income debtors and relatively small dollar
amounts.
Observers interpret al-Khatib's comments as a reference to the passage of vast
amounts
of luxury goods through Jordan into Iraq, one of the means by which Saddam has been able to reward his followers.
To redress this state of affairs, the economist Vladimir Masch suggests that the US should pursue a plan of “compensated free trade” (CFT), which essentially
amounts
to a unilateral activation of the scarce-currency clause.
Meanwhile, Malaysia, Nigeria, and Chile have already acquired modest
amounts
of renminbi reserves.
Moreover, once the markets expect substantial
amounts
of the common bond to be issued, interest rates on the huge stock of existing – purely national – bonds of solid countries would be likely to increase substantially.
Second, with banks losing substantial
amounts
of equity capital – estimates now reach $300 billion and more – the need to maintain minimum equity-debt ratios will force them to curtail business lending, hindering investment demand.
As a result of Chile’s cautious fiscal strategy, the country has a national debt that
amounts
to only 16% of GDP – and a sovereign debt rating that is the highest in South America.
Greek debt
amounts
to less than 2% of European GDP.
The
amounts
needed for development, peacekeeping, and climate adaptation and mitigation will be enormous, and we have been debating for years the appropriate level of aid.
Direct government spending on those wars so far
amounts
to roughly $2 trillion – $17,000 for every US household – with bills yet to be received increasing this amount by more than 50%.
The average volume of daily transactions in the foreign-exchange market
amounts
to only about half of the average in 2015 and 2016.
To be sure, good surveillance is needed in order to obtain early warning that a strain of H5N1 flu transmissible between humans has been detected, so that nations around the world can rapidly initiate a variety of public health measures, including a program to produce large
amounts
of vaccine against that strain.
In other words, the city has massive
amounts
of hidden wealth.
Indeed, for France’s political leaders, business
amounts
to a zero-sum competition to capture a higher share of total value added for owners and managers, at the expense of labor.
Official development assistance
amounts
to roughly $130 billion a year; though foreign-direct investment and portfolio inflows can help poor economies, additional sources of development finance must be found.
According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, despite concerted efforts at eradication and crop substitution, Afghanistan produced 87% of the world’s opium in 2005 – roughly 4.1 tons – generating $2.7 billion of illegal revenue, which
amounts
to roughly 52% of the country’s GDP.
In the decade since the 2008 global economic crisis, advanced economies have leaned heavily on easy monetary policy, hoping that large
amounts
of liquidity and ultra-low interest rates would generate enough demand to eliminate excess capacity.
The impact will be especially large for countries like India and Indonesia, where the bill for oil imports
amounts
to as much as 7.5% of GDP.
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