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For although Crown Prince Abdullah has his own loyal entourage, including the National Guard, he confronts opposition from senior figures in the religious establishment.
Boutros Ghali, nephew of the former UN Secretary-General, Interior Minister Habib Aladli, and such powerful figures as Ibrahim Suleiman and Safwat Sharif are engaged in similar deals, sometimes in partnership with Mubarak’s sons.
According to the most recent United Nations figures, 400,000 people, or roughly one-third of Mogadishu’s population, have fled the city.
It is said that the International Monetary Fund, which earlier this year revised upward its estimate of bank losses, from $1 trillion to $2.2 trillion, will announce a new estimate of $3.1 trillion for US assets and $0.9 trillion for foreign assets, figures very close to my own.
Massive as they are, however, the dollar figures do not reflect the true costs of air pollution.
Nonetheless, the truth remains that policymakers tend to respond more to hard figures than to abstract experiences.
Using well-established techniques, these “willingness-to-pay” figures were converted into an overall value of premature deaths caused by outdoor air pollution, as illustrated, for example, in the OECD’s Mortality Risk Valuation in Environment, Health and Transport Policies.
But such figures, though large, pale in comparison with the $305 trillion worth of financial assets held by commercial banks, institutional investors, and other private financial institutions and individuals.
Indian rape laws were changed in the wake of the rape and murder in 2011 of Bhanwari Devi, a 36-year-old midwife whose accusations of sexual misconduct implicated senior political figures.
Since 1960, when figures for more OECD countries are available, there is the same statistical link in all of those countries except Sweden: the higher the share prices, the lower the unemployment rate.
With these capitalisation figures alone you could have predicted which OECD economies would boom in the late 1990s.
In Iran, the figures were 82% and 78%, respectively.
But, at a time when shortsighted, radical, and inexperienced figures are gaining power, both of these bulwarks against war have been weakened.
Moreover, it also contributes greatly to the high per-capita GDP figures, for the simple reason that the value-added created by these government jobs is part of GDP, even if it could never have been produced in the market economy.
In the widely cited “Fox” index measuring state control of majority and minority religions, in which zero represents the least state control, and figures in the thirties represent the greatest degree of control, all but two current EU member states get scores that are in the zero to six range.
Indeed, a considerable number of the most prominent figures of the Cold War, in Russia and the US support abolition of nuclear weapons, including former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Paul Nitze, considered by many the author America's Cold War nuclear policy; former NATO commander Andrew J. Goodpaster, and Russia’s General Aleksander Lebed.
And it is very possible that, behind closed doors, Chinese officials are already testing their ability to manipulate some of the shadowy figures surrounding Kim, who appears increasingly paranoid about the possibility of a coup.
Twenty-five years after the military rescued the Party by crushing pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square, Xi’s potential strategy for doing so – a purge of high-level military figures – may incite a major internal fight.
That is much higher than the global average of around 22%; yet it is also significantly lower than the average of the figures provided by China’s provinces.
One would assume that the national capital-formation figures are based on local reports – not least because, until recent reforms, the NBS was not collecting data independently.
Moreover, the basic NBS investment figures – that is, total fixed-asset investment, from which fixed capital formation is derived – reflect the total of the provincial figures.
And the gross fixed-capital formation that we calculated by using the NBS’s own figures and the method explained in a publicly issued NBS manual also aligned closely with total fixed-asset investment, making it far higher than the NBS’s fixed-capital formation figures.
That result, along with the same figures for final consumption expenditure and net exports used by the NBS (but calculated independently), yields a total for expenditure-based GDP that is 32% higher than the production-based figure released by the NBS.
Indeed, official figures for fixed-capital formation may well be produced with simple adjustments, aimed at getting it as close as possible to GDP by production minus consumption expenditure and net exports.
As if that were not enough uncertainty, there is also the question of how accurate China’s fundamental fixed-asset investment figures are.
And there is no clear reason why local governments would suddenly start lying in 2004, since there was already plenty of incentive to provide the highest possible figures before that year.
We cannot know what adjustments have been made to figures for total fixed-asset investment.
To produce more accurate figures for fixed-capital formation, China will need to modify or even abandon the current system, based on local government reports, and adopt an independent survey and accounting system to measure fixed-asset investment.
Inflation is above 20% (no one is sure by how much, because the figures have been doctored).
The transparency and consistency of official figures lags well behind the authorities’ hyped promises about government reform, streamlining of the bureaucracy, and the retreat of the Party apparatus.
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