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Mullah Aukhundzada became so angry and humiliated when the promised goodies failed to materialize, that he ordered all the former poppy producing areas, as well as surrounding areas, to double poppy production the following year.
Moreover, with its population projected to double in the next three decades, Nigeria needs two million farm tractors and resources to build up to two million houses annually.
How to Reform the IMF NowWASHINGTON, DC – More than four years have passed since an overwhelming majority of the membership of the International Monetary Fund agreed to a package of reforms that would double the organization’s resources and reorganize its governing structure in favor of developing countries.
This change would double the IMF’s resources and provide greater voting power to developing countries.
The second coalition should be a group of countries – in particular, the 23 members of the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM), which account for about 80% of global energy demand, 80% of greenhouse-gas emissions, and 90% of clean-energy investments – that agree to double their economies’ rate of energy efficiency.
More than 900 ship-launched cruise missiles - triple the number in 1991 - will double the impact of the initial air strikes.
Trump insists that the Paris deal is unfair, because while “India will be allowed to double its coal production by 2020,” the United States is “supposed to get rid of ours.”
But what if Spain - and Europe as a whole - had reacted in the opposite way to the Madrid train bombing of April, saying: "We promise that because of that slaughter we will double our support for stabilization in Iraq by sending twice as many troops, experts, engineers, teachers, policemen, doctors, and billions of euros in support of allied forces and their Iraqi co-workers."
Responding to the nerve-agent attack on former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the placid market town of Salisbury, England, May projected strength – including to her fellow European leaders – by demanding that the Kremlin answer for the crime.
But the double game proved unsustainable: the Islamists were less inclined than their now-ambivalent patron to draw sophistical distinctions between one kind of enemy and another.
The trade negotiators are not even discussing eliminating this double standard.
No less than 14% of Swedish employees are currently registered as sick, double the number five years ago.
The World Bank is already seeking to double its lending within a decade by expanding infrastructure projects.
Last year, the National Center for Transgender Equality and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force published a survey that suggested that the unemployment rate among transgender people is double that of other people.
Last year, he pledged to double US foreign aid by 2012, raising it to $50 billion a year.
According to research by the McKinsey Global Institute, Saudi Arabia has the potential to double its GDP and create six million additional jobs by 2030, enough to absorb the influx of young men – and, increasingly, young women – entering the labor market.
Nigeria, grappling with a worsening economic crisis, wants to double daily production to four million barrels, to reflect new discoveries that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) claimed in December 2003 had increased reserves to 34 billion barrels.
It would comprise 620 million consumers, and have a combined GDP of more than $22 trillion (larger than the EU’s, and more than double that of China).
Inflation in Russia, Vietnam, Argentina, and Venezuela is solidly in double digits, to name just a few possibilities.
Political scientists have suggested scores of ideas, ranging from the re-introduction of double mandates (giving national MPs a seat in the European Parliament) to the creation of an EU Senate in a bicameral system.
Making the Most of Asia’s Aging PopulationsSEOUL – Asia is aging fast: by 2040, 16% of the region’s population will be older than 65, more than double the 7.8% share in 2015.
Lowering trade barriers even more could double average incomes in the poorest parts of the world over the next 15 years.
For example, we will double the installed capacity of wind energy and expand our biomass exchange this year.
Governments must double or even triple investment in energy R&D, while ensuring that energy start-ups have the same access to finance as, say, telecommunications or pharmaceutical companies.
And those are just the official figures; the actual numbers are probably much higher, possibly more than double.
A disorderly rush to the exit could lead to a dollar collapse, a spike in long-term interest rates, and a severe double dip recession.
Then oil prices plummeted, the economy contracted, and inflation reached double digits.
According to just-published budget data, during the first three months of 2015, non-defense spending amounted to 16.5% of quarterly GDP, as planned; but military expenditure exceeded 9% of quarterly GDP – more than double the budgeted amount.
European multinationals also have large stakes in the Chinese economy, and EU manufacturing exports to China and other emerging markets are now almost double those of the US.
At that pace, an economy would need 200 years to double in size.
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