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Real growth has averaged 7% for
eight
years, and real incomes have grown by roughly 10% per year.
Russia’s budget surplus has stood at more than 7% of GDP in the last two years, public debt has dwindled to only 8% of GDP, from 100% in 1999, and the current account surplus has averaged at 10% of GDP for the last
eight
years.
Or you could pay
eight
times the going rate for a “lightning call” – but even lightning struck slowly in India in those days, so a lightning call took a half-hour instead of the usual three or four (or more) to be connected.
Moreover, China fears that Hong Kong, with a population of less than
eight
million, might present a systemic problem as an alternative form of government, even though many Communists and their allies hold key positions in Hong Kong’s private and public sectors.
But Barak skipped a cruelly candid paragraph in Dayan’s speech that evoked the imposing magnitude of the Palestinian plight: “Let us not cast the blame on the murderers today….For
eight
years, they have been sitting in the refugee camps in Gaza, and before their eyes we have been transforming the lands and the villages where they and their fathers dwelt into our estate.
Of these, around
eight
million are in the eurozone, and more than a quarter are 50 and over.
The International Labor Organization (ILO) estimates that 90 million children between
eight
and fifteen years old work in the labor forces of developing countries; worldwide the figure is higher.
America offered Iran on a silver platter strategic assets that Khomeini’s revolution failed to acquire either in
eight
years of war against Saddam or in its abortive attempts to export the Islamic revolution throughout the region.
Ten years after the Berlin Wall fell, and nearly
eight
years since the end of the Soviet Union, Russia has failed to find its way in the world.
In our new book This Time is Different:
Eight
Centuries of Financial Folly , Carmen Reinhart and I find that if financial crises hold one lesson, it is that their aftereffects have a very long tail.
To that end,
eight
leading institutions in the North of England – including the Universities of Manchester, Leeds, and Sheffield – have created the N8 Research Partnership to collaborate on research in key areas such as life sciences and robotics.
Irrigation has failed or is inadequate in Helmand, Uruzgan, and Kandahar – three of the top five opium-producing provinces – where indebted farmers are hooked by the economics: opium brings in
eight
times as much cash as wheat and uses less water.
It’s difficult to imagine that Trump, no fan of the press, would host such an event, much less stand stoically with his wife Melania greeting each individual guest, as Barack and Michelle Obama did for
eight
years.
As irksome as some of America’s actions have been, particularly over the past
eight
years, America remains the world’s most critical champion of the progressive values that have lifted hundreds of millions of people out of abject poverty and political repression.
The
eight
growth market economies – the BRICs plus South Korea, Indonesia, Mexico, and Turkey – created close to $3 trillion in 2011, more than the United Kingdom in one year.
If the “Growth Eight” economies expanded by 10% on average in US dollar terms, they would add $1.5 trillion to global GDP next year.
For the decade that began in 2011, we at Goldman Sachs Asset Management have assumed that China, which accounts for about half of total Growth
Eight
output (probably $8.3 trillion by the end of 2012), will grow at a 7-8% annual rate in real terms, with inflation around 3%.
This conclusion was further reinforced in 2011, with the US-assisted overthrow of Libyan leader Muammar el-Qaddafi, who had abandoned his nuclear program
eight
years earlier.
Look East Again, EuropeThe EU's historic decision to admit
eight
former communist countries as members must not be create a new division between Eurasia's haves and have nots.
Foreign direct investment in 1991-2001 averaged $1,400 per capita in the
eight
former communist EU candidate countries.
The economic successes of Clinton’s
eight
years are undoubted.
It would last only
eight
months, like the two previous recessions of 1990-1991 and 2001, and the world would decouple from the US contraction.
Many of our countries are targets of terrorism, which,
eight
years on from the attacks of September 11, 2001, we must recognize is down, but by no means out.
Consider Sweden, which participated more actively than many NATO members during the recent campaign in Libya, sending 122 personnel and
eight
Gripen aircraft, at a monthly cost of $22 million.
Parallels to 1937NEW HAVEN – The depression that followed the stock-market crash of 1929 took a turn for the worse
eight
years later, and recovery came only with the enormous economic stimulus provided by World War II, a conflict that cost more than 60 million lives.
Half of all US states have now legalized marijuana in some form, with
eight
embracing full legalization.
But the FOMC’s other
eight
members, and the rest of the senior staff?
European Diplomacy’s First TestBRUSSELS – It took
eight
years of ill-tempered political wrangling to create the European Union’s new diplomatic service, but its fate – and that of its chief, Catherine Ashton – may well be decided over the next few weeks.
Moreover, only fifteen years ago,
eight
of the ten new members had state-controlled economies, which meant that a period of painful transition toward a market economy was followed by, or overlapped with, sometimes painful reforms necessary for EU membership.
A Loss for Kenyan DemocracyNAIROBI – On March 27,
eight
columnists from the Nation Media Group resigned from the Nation newspaper, citing a lack of editorial independence.
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