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Their estimates have been lauded, but also questioned because of their misinterpretation of their own figures.
To put the pre-invasion figure in perspective, consider United Nations Population Division figures, which are generally considered to be of very high quality.
Do they really provide us with more information than the Iraq Body Count figures provide?
According to China Household Financial Survey data, China’s Gini coefficient – the most common measure of inequality – climbed from 0.283 in 1983 to 0.491 in 2008, reaching highs of 0.61 in 2010 and 0.60 in 2012 (much higher than the official figures of 0.481 and 0.474, respectively).
Over the next five years, establishment figures may well coalesce around failing policies, giving Le Pen the perfect target for the National Front’s 2022 presidential campaign.
Although the IMF delivered some gloomily accurate figures about the likely cost of the US housing fiasco, it played almost no role in addressing the current crisis.
He removed leaders who could potentially oppose her, including such senior figures as Lee Yong-chul and Lee Je-gang.
Reacting to Snowden’s allegations, US figures, like former CIA and NSA Director Michael Hayden, made no reference at all to America’s obligations under international law, to its interest in protecting diplomacy, or even to the unfairness and bad faith involved in spying on partners with whom one is supposedly negotiating in a transparent way.
But now that public figures – especially those deemed to be “of interest” to intelligence agencies – are susceptible to being watched three-dimensionally, the chances of being compromised are far higher than they were in the days of the UK’s Profumo affair, which brought down a British defense secretary in the early 1960’s.
Most people take for granted that they would have that choice, because they do not realize that living in a surveillance society means that eventually everyone must face the same anxieties about exposure as public figures do.
By courting Trump, White House Chief Strategist Stephen Bannon, and other Euroskeptic figures in the US administration, May’s government is playing a dangerous and shortsighted game.
Such figures have led many observers to believe that overall domestic demand must be low, leaving China dependent on external markets for growth.
Although projecting concrete figures is a sterile exercise in these worrisome times, most analysts predict that Colombia’s economic performance this year will be inferior to Peru’s, but similar to Chile’s and Brazil’s and better than that of Argentina, Venezuela, and Mexico, a country expected to contract by more than 2%.
Liberty’s Revolutionary MuseGreat social thinkers almost always start out as polarizing figures, admired by some and scorned by others, until their radical challenge to how we understand the world finally prevails.
With analysts focused more on short-term figures than on structural trends, it is not surprising that financial markets often fail to comprehend the real story.
So far, that friend has been America, but the US could well pull out of Pakistan for the fourth time in the countries’ turbulent relationship – a threat that several influential figures in the US Congress have already made.
These are staggering figures, even for a country with a billion people and a tertiary-education enrollment rate that is one-third that of advanced economies.
Because many people do not have easy access to hospitals and clinics, these figures are rough estimates at best.
People’s relationship to authority figures – doctors, politicians, religious leaders, or, indeed, journalists – is no longer slavishly deferential.
These raw figures on job losses, bad as they are, actually understate the weakness in world labor markets.
Third, if you plug an unemployment rate of 10% to 11% into any model of loan defaults, you get ugly figures not just for residential mortgages (both prime and subprime), but also for commercial real estate, credit cards, student loans, auto loans, etc.
Every five years the United Nations produces a summary report called the Global Forest Resource Assessment;The team in charge of assembling the assessment relies on internet reporting and satellite surveillance to come up with the figures.
Similar to the global figures, today the US has only half the forest cover that it had in 1600.
This could be described as a temporary advisory parliament, or ‘Shura Council,’ but it should include hundreds of figures from throughout the country and they should be selected through the Governing Council and interim Government after nationwide consultations.
That is why some of the most sinister figures behind Russia’s other frozen conflicts, such as Lieutenant-General Vladimir Antyufeyev, the long-serving “state security minister” in Moldova’s breakaway Transnistria region, are now calling the shots among eastern Ukraine’s armed militants.
The figures show the chasm that exists between rich and poor countries where motherhood is concerned.
Recent figures show that we are making progress in helping women throughout the world.
And these figures are not wishful thinking: in 2016, Ethiopia’s GDP grew by 7.6%.
According to the government’s own figures, they equal just 1% of GDP – a pathetic increase in an economy with one of Latin America’s lowest tax takes.
In democracies, such public events involving popular religious figures are common, and politicians often enjoy the attention they attract by attending them.
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