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Chinese companies’ operating practice for overseas projects, including in Africa, is to keep the number of local workers to a bare minimum and to bring in much of the workforce from China, some of which comprises convicts “freed” on parole for project-related overseas work.
Another 30% of the labor force comprises migrant workers, who have doubled their incomes by moving from agriculture to the industrial and service sectors.
In the end, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has prevailed, because the eurozone today is led by a de facto economic government that comprises member countries’ heads of state and government (and their finance ministers).
The agreement comprises voluntary pledges by governments that amount to no more than promises to do their best.
So if the labor force comprises 200 workers, and 20 are unemployed, the unemployment rate is 10%.
On one hand, because CO2 works as a fertilizer, higher levels have been a boon for agriculture, which comprises the biggest positive impact, at 0.8% of GDP.
This grouping adds Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, South Korea, Turkey, and Vietnam to the economic radar, and, together with the four BRIC countries, probably comprises a more logical and defensible “first tier” of emerging economies.
The election also brings a much needed measure of stability and legitimacy to the governing March 14 coalition, which comprises the mainly Sunni Future movement, led by Saad Hariri (son of slain former Prime Minister Rafik al Hariri), the Socialist party, led by Druze leader Walid Junblat, and a number of Christian parties.
only blueprint for engineering the genome was the known sequence of RNA (which comprises the viral genome and is chemically very similar to DNA).
Other scientists noted that the organism is really only “semi-synthetic,” because the synthetic DNA (which comprises only about 1% of the dry weight of the cell) was introduced into a normal, or non-synthetic, bacterium.
Public spending beyond what is needed to finance the government’s basic functions comprises a major share of Brazil’s GDP.
In fact, what looks like a unified strike movement actually comprises two major unions with different demands and motivations.
China’s model comprises a number of key characteristics, including authoritarian governance buttressed by the perception of stability; state-guided industrial policy and finance; massive infrastructure investments; rural industrialization backed by small-scale agriculture; and openness to foreign trade and technology.
Ten years after the last war in the region, the Balkans still comprises an assemblage of frustrated protectorates and weak states.
It comprises ten indicators, each of which is based on various sub-indicators, and all of which are aggregated, according to a fixed rule, into a final score that determines a country’s ranking among 190 economies.
While India celebrates its diversity, China seeks to impose cultural and linguistic uniformity, although it officially comprises 56 nationalities.
Today, ASEAN comprises the world’s seventh-largest economy, on track to become the fourth largest by 2050.
More generally, international liquidity comprises the liabilities of OECD countries’ central banks (their “high-powered money”), those countries’ AAA-rated and AA-rated central-government bonds, the debt securities of supranational organizations like the World Bank and regional development banks, and gold in official and private hands.
The opposition comprises factions dependent on foreign sponsors.
Today, every smartphone comprises components developed by some government grant, or through the commons of pooled ideas, for which no dividends have ever been paid to society.
Here in Brussels, where the largely North African immigrant population comprises a quarter of the city’s inhabitants, hotels and restaurants recently resorted to an emergency on-line recruitment service to counter their worsening staff shortages.
Since a complex network comprises linkages between many sub-networks, individual inefficiencies or weaknesses can have an impact on the viability of the whole.
The World Economic Forum’s theme for its annual meeting in Davos next month is Globalization 4.0, which comprises many of the competing narratives now shaping our world.
Agriculture comprises almost two-thirds of Sub-Saharan Africa’s workforce, and in 2003 the African Union called for countries to increase their investment in the sector to an ambitious 10% of all government spending.
Chemotherapy comprises a large variety of drugs that directly kill cancer cells.
But real estate comprises the bulk of public commercial assets.
China’s fixed-asset investment comprises three main categories: manufacturing, infrastructure, and real estate.
The final group comprises the “wild card” countries, whose size and connectivity have important systemic implications.
Plan B comprises two key elements.
But the opposition, which comprises half the country, is badly demoralized after five years of stalemate among the Orange Revolution’s leaders, for which the largest share of blame falls on former President Viktor Yushchenko, who by almost all accounts has betrayed the democratic breakthrough that he represented.
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