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Imagine that in December 2014, policymakers introduced a tax of $100 per metric ton of carbon
(equivalent
to a $27 tax on CO2).
Today, one-quarter of the world’s population still lives on the
equivalent
of less than one US dollar a day, and the World Bank says that the daily spending power of 1.2 billion people is roughly equal to the price of a hamburger, two soft drinks, or three candy bars in the West.
For Orthodoxy, the Ecumenical Patriarchate is in many ways the
equivalent
of Mecca.
Indeed, the number of students who went abroad in 2013 was
equivalent
to only 6% of the students admitted to Chinese universities.
Not only do the US administration and its federal agencies have to accept that a safety standard established and tested in Frankfurt or Athens is
equivalent
to its US counterpart; congressional committees must agree.
He very probably means what he says about Jews and Israel, but is he a latter-day Hitler, and is today’s Iran the
equivalent
of Germany in the 1930’s?
More important, given that some regions now face interest-rate spreads that are the functional
equivalent
of having their own currencies (without a central bank), some eurozone members might at some point wonder why they should not formalize what is de facto a reality.
With Turkey’s external deficit
equivalent
to 6% of GDP, the authorities have adopted a macro-prudential framework that combines policies to reduce exchange-rate volatility in the very short term with measures to increase domestic savings and promote the real sector’s international competitiveness in the long run.
Indeed, the world should expect a near recession in Russia and Brazil in 2009, owing to low commodity prices, and a sharp slowdown in China and India that will be the
equivalent
of a hard landing (growth well below potential) for these countries.
In the US, for example, the shortfall of physicians could grow to nearly 95,000 by 2025,
equivalent
to 43% of all doctors working today.
Using Iceland as our measuring stick, the cost to Greece of not exiting the eurozone is
equivalent
to 75% of a year’s GDP – and counting.
We estimate that the world could capture three gigatons of CO2 annually –
equivalent
to taking more than 600 million cars off the roads – simply by planting more trees.
In 2016, the world witnessed a dramatic 51% increase in forest loss,
equivalent
to an area about the size of New Zealand.
Tortuous claims that saving is merely the flip side of consumption and investment spending are the economic
equivalent
of Humpty Dumpty’s argument in Through the Looking Glass : “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean.”
World Bank data tracking the evolution of developing-country debt since the 1970s show that the probability of a country falling into debt distress increases nine-fold (to a one-in-five chance) if its repayments are
equivalent
to more than one-tenth of its exports – a situation that one in three of today’s new issuers could face when their bonds come due.
The resulting numbers imply that the cumulative increase from 1984 through 2013 was less than 10%,
equivalent
to less than 0.3% per year.
A more feasible option, therefore, would be to provide all workers and pensioners with social-security numbers (or the local equivalent) with a payment from the ECB, which governments would merely assist in distributing.
As a result, some citizens eventually suffer the economic
equivalent
of a heart attack: wrenching declines in living standards as they are victimized by unsustainable programs’ endgame.
Sensible risk management today dictates that atmospheric carbon should be stabilized at 350 parts per million of CO2 equivalent, not the current pathway of 450-500ppm CO2e.
But hiring Chinese princelings is not the moral
equivalent
of American-style nepotism.
They must endorse Renzi’s “there are no excuses” narrative as the post-crisis
equivalent
of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s argument that “there is no alternative.”
So, if the entire write-down cost were covered by banks, most of them would lose the
equivalent
of no more than one year’s profits – spread over several years.
Private groups using everything from satellite imagery (as in forestry) to the unofficial
equivalent
of on-site inspections (as in human rights) monitor who is abiding by – or violating – what standard of behavior.
That would be the functional
equivalent
of a tax hike on middle-class families – precisely the constituency that so concerns Congress.
According to some back-of-the-envelope calculations, the wealth of the world’s 50 richest people totals $1.5 trillion,
equivalent
to 175% of Indonesia’s GDP, or a little more than Japan’s foreign-exchange reserves.
The Protocols of Rupert MurdochNEW YORK – Whenever I hear people on America’s Republican right call themselves “conservative,” I experience the mental
equivalent
of a slight electric shock.
For example, damage to ecosystems and biodiversity caused by current practices in the food and agriculture sector alone could cost the
equivalent
of 18% of global economic output by 2050, up from around 3% in 2008.
But, even if everyone in the entire world cut all residential lighting, and this translated entirely into CO2 reduction, it would be the
equivalent
of China pausing its CO2 emissions for less than four minutes.
The electricity that people in rich countries consume is, on average,
equivalent
to the energy of 56 servants helping them.
Even people in Sub-Saharan Africa have electricity
equivalent
to about three servants.
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