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The donors promised to double aid to Africa by 2010, but are still far off track.
Moreover, fiscal support is absent this time: QE1 and QE2 helped to prevent a deeper recession and avoid a double dip, respectively, because each was associated with a significant fiscal stimulus.
With attacks on the intelligence and law enforcement communities playing well among his supporters, Trump could well double down on this demagoguery.
Global nuclear power capacity could double in the next 20 years.
At the same time, however, the relative cost of Medicare, Medicaid, and other health care programs will more than double, from 4.5% to 10.9% of GDP.
In nominal terms, the level of personal saving is nearly double what was reported over the prior four quarters.
The upward revisions go even further back, with the percentage differences between updated and prior data on nominal personal saving in double digits since the mid-1990s.
By beginning to normalize relations, Cuba and the United States have snatched victory from the jaws of a double defeat: the failure of the embargo and the failure of the Cuban economy.
Africa boasts a large and creative labor pool, buttressed by a youth population that is expected to double, to over 830 million, by 2050.
By 2050 the population of the 50 least developed countries is projected to double, and while the ratio of working-age to non-working-age people in Europe will fall to around 1.4, in the developing world it will be considerably higher.
Similarly, following the nerve-agent attack in England on former Russian double agent Sergey Skripal and his daughter, the United Kingdom has implemented new measures aimed at preventing money laundering, with capital inflows from Russia to come under the closest scrutiny.
Indeed, use of the Chinese yuan, or renminbi (RMB), in global payments would double between then and August 2015, to 2.8% of the total, making China’s currency the fourth most used in the world.
In a sign of what is to come, Poland’s foreign minister, Witold Waszczykowski, told the tabloid Superekspres after the summit that the EU was pursuing “a policy of double standards and deceptions.”
Even before intervening in Ukraine, Putin was failing to deliver on his grand promise, made in 2003, to double the size of Russia’s economy within a decade.
At that rate, the world economy would double in size in 14 years.
Then something happened last spring: my sister Emily discovered that she had cancer and had a double mastectomy.
“Aaagh,” I thought, “if only I had a double mastectomy: I could cancel all these things and no one would complain!”
So in some odd way, this sabbatical in Russia is my alternative to a double mastectomy – a positive one, to be sure, but the same kind of reset-button experience.
LONDON – The poisoning of Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia at an Italian restaurant in Salisbury has driven an important story off the front pages of the British press.
Meanwhile, Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood are playing a double game.
In fact, Hamas, too, is playing a double game.
By the end of June, the Department of Commerce had already received 21,000 applications for exemptions, and it expects that number to double this year.Processing these applications takes time and introduces further complications, all the more so because companies seeking exemptions must apply separately for each type of steel (with the only difference sometimes being the component’s shape), and because exemptions must be renewed annually.
According to a recent study by Plum Consulting, information and communications technology (ICT) contributed nearly 1.6% to annual productivity growth in the US during this period – double its contribution in Europe.
So, why the double standard?
The United States had emerged from the war as the world’s largest creditor, but it had a double vulnerability.
But if a Trump trade war is in the offing, they – and other countries – will need to double down on that approach.
The BEC heralds a new level of public-private partnership, with the investors working with the governments of some 20 countries – including the China, India, and the US – that already account for roughly 80% of global investment in clean energy and have now pledged to double their investments.
That leads European leaders to double down on authoritarianism in order to stick to their failed policies when recessionary economic forces strengthen.
Membership would require Ukraine to double import tariffs on EU goods, at an annual cost equivalent to 4% of GDP; and it would not even guarantee free trade among its members (Russia already applies trade sanctions against Belarus and Kazakhstan).
But these arguments merely underscore a double standard.
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