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Last week, the government of Germany – once the most fiscally prudent and disciplined EU country – broke the pact’s rules for fiscal discipline for the fifth consecutive year, and did so without (much) apology.
The fifth European Union-Africa Summit, to be held later this year, will focus squarely on the continent’s young people.
This month, China torpedoed, for the fifth time in two years, proposed UN sanctions on Masood Azhar, the Pakistan-based head of Jaish-e-Mohammed, which the UN designated as a terrorist outfit years ago.
According to the financial network SWIFT, it is the second most used currency in trade finance, having overtaken the euro, and ranks fifth in terms of international payments.
The EU is Russia’s largest trading partner – the US is in fifth place, behind China and Ukraine.
Efforts to eradicate leprosy earned the fifth spot on my list, while vaccine advances in general were sixth.
There is much to be said for that approach – not only in Italy, but throughout Europe, where direct and indirect taxation on employers and jobs accounts for half of the total tax take, while taxes on capital comprise only a fifth.
The fifth generation of mobile communication technology, 5G, poses a particular challenge.
And, fifth, observers must be free to issue public statements and reports with their findings and recommendations.
Energy accounts for 70% of Russia’s export earnings and half of its budget revenue – money that is used to finance the military, nationalist state-owned media, cyber wars, the fifth column in Ukraine and other countries, and the lavish lifestyles of the country’s elites, including Putin.
Likewise, the proportion of children dying before their fifth birthday has been halved, partly because an additional two billion people now benefit from better sanitation and wider access to clean drinking water.
A few days before that, President Asif Ali Zardari paid his fifth visit to Beijing since taking office in August 2008 – this one a state visit – and received pledges of support for developing nuclear power and constructing a railway line over the Karakoram mountain range, linking the two countries.
The fifth option is to tighten fiscal policy and reduce budget deficits with the aim of lowering the high interest rates that drive the inflows.
Vehicles cause nearly a fifth of New York City’s CO2 emissions.
But a fifth difference points in the other direction.
If true, drug-induced death would qualify as the fourth or fifth leading cause of death (depending on which mortality estimates are used).
Since the late 1970s, the post-tax income of the richest fifth has increased five times as fast as the poorest fifth in the US, and four times as fast in the UK.
East Asia’s Lessons for AfricaNEW YORK – On June 1-3, Japan is hosting the fifth meeting of TICAD, the Tokyo International Cooperation on African Development.
Three months later, the Army staged a coup--Nigeria's fifth since independence in 1960.
He and Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a number of agreements and then traveled to Durban, South Africa, for the fifth “BRICS” summit, where they joined with the leaders of India, Brazil, and South Africa to announce the creation of a new development bank that could challenge the dominance of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
The losers in the region are also clear: Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf states, which feel existentially threatened, and have come to regard their own Shia minorities as an Iranian fifth column.
And the country has one of the world’s highest child-mortality rates, with one out of every five children dying before their fifth birthday.
The fifth area that Democrats must address is taxation.
This year marks the fifth anniversary of the World Health Organization’s Roadmap to eliminate NTDs, and of the London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases.
After four failed bailout plans in the past fifteen months (Indonesia, Korea, Thailand, and Russia), the IMF is verging on a fifth failure.
But a fifth supply chain – that of human talent – has largely been neglected, and cities cannot achieve their potential unless they can attract the best human talent.
Last quarter, corporate investment fell 0.7% – the fifth consecutive quarter of decline.
Some observers expect bold political initiatives later this year, at the 18th Party Congress, when a fifth generation of leaders takes control of the People’s Republic.
The fifth lesson is that not all innovation leads to a more efficient and productive economy – let alone a better society.
The same individuals came from countries in which per capita income was only a fifth or a tenth of that in the U.S..
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