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As a result, in the second quarter of this year, total public expenditure on infrastructure fell to an estimated 1.4% of GDP, the lowest share on record.
Indeed, a senior cabinet minister suggested recently that the international community should write off Pakistan’s debts – an amount estimated at $40 billion.
The economy was also badly hurt by the massive floods of 2010, which caused damage estimated at $10 billion.
The Swiss did not respond with the kind of neglect that Russia’s government has shown so far toward its heroin and HIV epidemics – more than two million drug users and an estimated one million people living with HIV, over 60% of them infected while sharing contaminated needles.
China’s Incredible Shrinking EconomyITHACA, NY -- The World Bank recently announced that the Chinese and Indian economies are 40% smaller than previously estimated.
Price levels in China and India, among other developing countries, turn out to be much higher than previously estimated.
Living in Hong Kong or Santiago, Chile, will cost one additional microlife per day, whereas daily life in New Delhi, one of the world’s most polluted cities, costs an estimated 4-5 microlives.
In the same German Marshall Fund survey, British respondents estimated that 31.8% of the United Kingdom’s population was foreign born; the true figure is 11.3%.
Americans estimated that the US foreign-born population stood at 37.8% – triple the actual proportion, 12.5%.
In fact, unions were a driving force behind last year’s Domestic Workers Convention, which seeks to protect the rights of the world’s estimated 50-100 million domestic workers.
Their fate has been to join the estimated 12,000 students conscripted into children’s militias in the country’s escalating civil war.
Since then, the deficit has widened dramatically, to 2.7% of GDP in 1999, 3.5% in 2001, and an estimated 4.7% this year.
Argentina certainly has massive reserves still to be exploited: an estimated 19.9 billion barrels of crude oil and 583 trillion cubic feet of gas, concentrated in the Vaca Muerta shale formation.
In the 1970s, American researchers estimated that getting fusion power on the grid would demand investment of $2-3 billion annually in research and development until anywhere from 1990 to 2005 (depending on the amount of effort applied).
They also estimated a minimum level of investment, below which funding would never be sufficient to build a fusion power plant.
The estimated ranges vary widely, even after a quarter-century of scientific effort, owing to the complexity of the environment itself.
The Asian Development Bank has estimated that in 1820, at the beginning of the industrial age, Asia accounted for three-fifths of world output.
Indeed, their non-US affiliates currently hold an estimated $2 trillion in accumulated foreign earnings.
And these costs, estimated at 1-5% of deferred earnings, have been rising rapidly in recent years, in line with the growing share of foreign markets in US-based MNCs’ revenues.
The economic gains of reducing micronutrient deficiencies are estimated to have a cost/benefit ratio of almost 1:13.
Hydrocarbon reserves in Africa are estimated at 80-200 billion barrels.
But if Myanmar were to boost annual labor-productivity growth from an estimated 2.7% to around 7% – a rate achieved by other Asian economies, including China and Thailand, in recent decades – 8% annual GDP growth would be possible.
Today, only an estimated 13% of Myanmar’s population lives in large cities, but that could rise to 25% by 2030 – an addition of ten million people.
Our efforts have been unprecedented, resulting in deficit reduction amounting to 1.5% of GDP in 2012, 1.7% in 2013, and an estimated 0.9% in 2014.
An estimated two million Vietnamese died in a war that did not free them.
Many Puerto Ricans, unable to find jobs on the island, have migrated to the mainland, with the population and labor force estimated to be shrinking at a rate of 1.5% this year.
Or consider Syria, where an estimated 200,000 Syrians have recently died, 3.7 million have fled the country, and 7.6 million have been internally displaced in a civil war that was stoked in no small part by the US, Saudi Arabia, and other allied powers.
Eastern Europe’s Ostrich Policy on HIVCARDIFF, CALIFORNIA – Russia and Ukraine account for roughly 90% of the 1.5 million people estimated to be infected with HIV in Central and Eastern Europe.
But the most influential Eastern European signatory was the First Lady of Georgia, a country whose estimated 2,700 HIV-infected people account for just 0.018% of the regional total.
Even before the recent food price spikes, an estimated billion people were suffering from chronic hunger, while another two billion were experiencing malnutrition, bringing the total number of food-insecure people to around three billion, or almost half the world’s population.
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