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At the end of 2014, British foreign direct investment in Africa was £42.5 billion ($54.1 billion), more than double the £20.8 billion that UK interests invested in 2005.
If China can sustain 5.5-7% annual economic growth for the next 15 years, the number of Chinese earning $40,000 per year could more than double.
But we would also expect to see manufacturing plants running at double shifts – the money not spent on construction has to go somewhere, and, remember, the problem is not a lack of aggregate demand.
Meanwhile, China has pledged to double average domestic per capita income by 2020.
This can be explained partly by high inflation, which independent analysts put at roughly 25% – more than double the official estimate of 10%.
Both men are likely to support the prevailing global double standard, which allows rich countries to use fiscal expansion in the face of recession, while forcing poor countries into greater austerity.
Indeed, the Congressional Budget Office projects that the national debt could increase to 82% of GDP over the next ten years – more than double the debt ratio as recently as 2008.
In economies with excess productive capacity, targeted investment can yield a double benefit, generating short-run demand and boosting growth and productivity thereafter.
There are well-founded complaints about double standards.
Russia’s international reserves have fallen by $135 billion, and inflation has reached double digits.
At PwC, this is being addressed by hosting conversations in which men and women discuss gender issues collaboratively and respectfully, and by working with both genders to challenge double standards and acknowledge potential blind spots.
Among young people and recent graduates, the figure is more than double.
According to research I conducted with my colleague, Tomas Hellebrandt, average household income in Asia’s emerging economies will double over the next two decades; in the meantime, spending on transportation will quadruple.
Investments in soil nutrients and water harvesting could help African farmers double or triple their food yields.
Similarly, intelligent transportation systems for roads can double or triple the use of an asset – typically at a fraction of the cost of adding the equivalent in physical capacity.
In this sense Falun Gong is a double paradox: a traditionalistic movement freighted with deep historical symbolism, it is also a cyber-savvy, modern Chinese protest movement.
Overall productivity doubles, and can double again, as both agriculture and manufacturing become still more productive, with some workers then shifting to restaurants or health-care services.
And though Le Pen did worse than expected, her 34% share in the second round was nearly double that of her father in 2002.
A direct attack on poverty can yield a double dividend: in reducing human misery, it could spark growth, thereby creating more political space for direct poverty reduction.
The other is to double down on the incendiary politics of anti-Muslim animus that has worked for the party in the past, relying on the dangerous doctrine of Hindutva, according to which India is a land of Hindus and should declare itself a Hindu state.
Because increased demand for bio-fuels leads to cutting down carbon-rich forests, a 2008 Science study showed that the net effect of using them is not to cut CO2 emissions, but to double them.
OECD countries in particular will be hit by a double demographic shock.
In the meantime, the number of people older than 60 is expected to double by 2050 and more than triple by the end of the century.
The number of patent applications filed by US inventors with MENA backgrounds was double that in the European Union.
Annual household spending on personal products and on dining out will more than double, to $770 and $720, respectively.
That is almost double the number of journalists killed that year.
I am confident that the combined effect of these reforms will enable Japan to double its inward direct investment by 2020, rebooting the entire country and changing its economic landscape dramatically.
The ratio of housing prices to incomes is more than double that of the United States.
According to the International Organization for Migration, as of July, some 150,000 migrants had reached Europe by sea this year, double the number during the same period in 2014.
Losses in stock markets have a double effect: they reduce households’ wealth and lead them to spend less; and they cause massive losses to investors who borrowed to invest in stock, thus triggering margin calls and asset fire sales.
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