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advice today would be that governments the world over are doing all the wrong things in bailing out top-heavy banks, subsidizing inefficient businesses, and putting obstacles in the way of rational workers spending more time with their families or taking lower-paid jobs.
Indeed, these reports challenge the prevailing approach, which has left more than one billion people living below the poverty line (defined as the purchasing-power-parity
equivalent
of $1.25 per day in 2005), and has failed to prevent economic growth from stalling in most countries.
He is not the
equivalent
of Daniel Ellsberg, who in 1971 illegally released the Pentagon Papers, the US military’s secret history of the Vietnam War; rather, he is analogous to The New York Times, which made the brave and correct decision to publish that material.
There is no
equivalent
of the brown-shirted or black-shirted thugs who were given license by political leaders to beat up their opponents, or worse.
Because the possible outcomes of global warming in the absence of mitigation are very uncertain, though surely bad, the uncertain losses should be evaluated as being
equivalent
to a single loss greater than the expected loss.
Following a “business as usual” policy, by 2200, the losses in GNP have an expected value of 13.8%, but with a degree of uncertainty that makes the expected loss
equivalent
to a certain loss of about 20%.
A savings rate of 50% of GDP is too high under any circumstances, and household consumption
equivalent
to 35% of GDP is too low.
The Reference Scenario – in which no new policies are introduced – in the International Energy Agency’s 2008 World Energy Outlook sees annual global primary energy demand growing 1.6% on average up to 2030, from 11,730 million tons of oil
equivalent
(Mtoe) to just over 17,010 Mtoe – an increase of 45% in just over 20 years.
Two IEA climate-policy scenarios show how we could stabilize the concentration of greenhouse gases at 550 or 450 parts per million of CO2
equivalent.
These children have joined the ranks of 25 million displaced boys and girls worldwide – a number
equivalent
to the population of a midsize European country and the largest in the 70 years since the end of World War II.
Estimates of how much electricity Bitcoin mining requires vary widely – some put it as high as 30 terawatt hours per year
(equivalent
to Morocco’s entire electricity demand), while others suggest it’s a sixth of that.
If the fund does well over the next five years – returns profits of 9% per year –private investors get a market rate of return on their very risky equity investment and the
equivalent
of an “annual management fee” equal to 2% of assets under management.
This policy
equivalent
of former US Secretary of State Colin Powell’s doctrine of “overwhelming force,” together with the sharp contraction of output below final demand for goods and services (which drew down inventories of unsold goods), sets the stage for most economies to bottom out early next year.
While full employment has not been defined, many economists believe it is
equivalent
to an unemployment rate of about 5.5%.
For, unlike diplomatic communications, which are generally an invitation to dialogue, legislation translates into a take-it-or-leave-it prescription, the operational
equivalent
of an ultimatum.”
Equivalent
to 1% of US GDP, it is large by all accounts.
The origins of the Great War include a fascinating precedent concerning how financial globalization can become the
equivalent
of a national arms race, thereby increasing the vulnerability of the international order.
But as the IT industry developed, monopoly wealth rose dramatically; it reached 82% of total stock-market value –
equivalent
to some $23.8 trillion – in December 2015.
Would the US not be better off by using its capacity to tax natural gas to stimulate the development of the contemporary technological
equivalent
of the revolutionary engine?
Trump’s team has been consistent about little except its insistence on the notion that being powerful is
equivalent
to being right.
Such a system would be the political
equivalent
of letting the inmates guard the prison.
The US tax code allows interest payments to be deducted as a business expense; there is no
equivalent
allowance for payments to equity investors.
A hundred oligarchs in India hold assets
equivalent
to 25% of GDP, while 800 million of their compatriots survive on less than a dollar a day.
This has prompted some scientists to begin investigating new models of energy from the perspective of “intelligence and information,” in which order is
equivalent
to information.
It was not quite the
equivalent
of the final match between Italy and France in 2006, when virtually every small Italian town turned out to watch on the main square; but Americans all over the country spent the month ducking out of work and into sports bars.
Of course, the Irish “No” is not the
equivalent
for the EU of what the Afghan quagmire represents for NATO.
Public real estate is often worth around 100% of the GDP of a given jurisdiction, the
equivalent
of a quarter of the total value of the real-estate market.
That could plunge the global economy into another financial crisis, delivering a shock
equivalent
to the autumn of 2008.
For countries such as Armenia, El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Kyrgyzstan, Lesotho, Moldova, Nepal, and Tajikistan, expatriates remit the
equivalent
of more than one-sixth of national income – an amount that often exceeds exports.
By contrast, many Latin American countries have substantial diasporas abroad, but few
equivalent
success stories.
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