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State governments were on the hook, too: Texas spent the
equivalent
of three months of total state income to rescue its S&Ls and their depositors.
This drug trafficking
equivalent
of the Dakar Rally covers 4,000 kilometers of inhospitable terrain, across regions controlled by rebel groups and terrorists associated with al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
Demographic aging is the social and economic
equivalent
of climate change: it is a problem that we all know must be addressed, but which we would rather leave for future generations to solve.
It is no wonder that France spends the
equivalent
of nearly 14% of its GDP annually on public pensions.
Early retirement is even costlier for Italy, which tops OECD rankings of public-pension spending, with an annual outlay
equivalent
to nearly 16% of its GDP.
In all, 13 OECD countries – including Japan, Germany, Poland, and Greece – devote the
equivalent
of 10% or more of their GDP to public pensions every year.
While the policy caused credit spreads to narrow and bond market liquidity to improve, many banks have been using the extra money to rebuild their balance sheets (the
equivalent
of increased household savings) rather than lending it to businesses and individuals.
There is no German
equivalent
of Google or Facebook.
On February 23, Russians celebrate the “Day of the Defender of the Fatherland,” a rough
equivalent
of Father’s Day but with a militaristic flavor.
The standard daily ration is 150-300 grams (5-10 ounces) of corn or rice
(equivalent
to roughly four slices of dry bread), depending on the location.
The report proposes an agenda whose cost would be
equivalent
to just 1% of annual consumption, but would save the world risk
equivalent
costs that are five times greater.
According to the most recent report, between 2000 and 2005, we lost forest acreage
equivalent
to the land mass of Panama -- more than 77 thousand square kilometers of forest gone, some of it never to return.
Adding imputed interest earnings, the stock of Africa's capital flight stood at $274 billion - a sum
equivalent
to 145% of the debts owed by those countries.
Indeed, a study in 2007 calculated the climate mitigation benefits of the ozone treaty as totalling the
equivalent
of 135 billion tons of CO2 since 1990, or a delay in global warming of 7-12 years.
If ITER could really solve the planet’s energy problem, €10 billion would be a negligible investment – less than the net profit of the oil company TOTAL (€13 billion in 2006) and
equivalent
to ten days of waging the war in Iraq.
A more useful definition of cyber waris hostile action in cyberspace whose effects amplify or are
equivalent
to major physical violence.
In 1958, the government of President Fulgencio Batista borrowed a small amount from the IMF: $12.5 million,
equivalent
to 25% of Cuba’s quota.
For a majority of Russian citizens, economic prosperity and televised entertainment have become the modern
equivalent
of the panem et circenses formula of Roman times.
It has a vast and growing prison population, with annual spending on each incarcerated inmate
equivalent
to a middle-income California household’s after-tax income.
India’s Homemade Food CrisisSINGAPORE – According to current estimates, India’s total population will reach 1.45 billion by 2028, similar to China’s, and 1.7 billion by 2050,
equivalent
to nearly the combined population of China and the United States today.
An estimated 21 million tons of wheat –
equivalent
to Australia’s entire annual crop – rots or is eaten by insects, owing to inadequate storage and poor management at the government-run Food Corporation of India (FCI).
Daily commute times for low-income formal-sector workers often exceed three hours, and the average direct cost of transportation is
equivalent
to roughly two hours of work at the minimum wage.
In Austria, the share of people with a university degree or its
equivalent
increased by 250% between 1996 and 2012.
A recent article in the Global Times, a nationalistic Chinese state paper, asserted that, if South Korea installs the THAAD system, it should face Chinese sanctions
equivalent
to those that are already choking North Korea.
But the view that the economy, at least, is on firm ground is dangerously misguided, as it assumes that global economic rules and institutions have created the
equivalent
of an economic and financial constitution.
I do not know if there is a Mandarin
equivalent
for “Be careful what you wish for,” but if there is, it surely applies.
After all, the objective – to identify a few terrorists hiding among millions of law-abiding citizens, before they commit a violent act – is the
equivalent
of finding a needle in a haystack.
What the world really needs to do is accelerate productivity – not at a modest pace, but at the economic
equivalent
of warp speed.
A housing minister who is told to build a certain number of houses will likely fail to build an
equivalent
number of well-connected habitat nodes.
The result would be the functional
equivalent
of a tax hike on beleaguered middle-class US families.
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