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The problem is that Chile’s after-tax Gini coefficient is approximately 50 (Brazil, Colombia, and Peru have similar figures), while those of the advanced countries are mostly in the low 30’s or even the high 20’s.
Cumulative figures for the last 30 years vary from $200-300 trillion.
And reports are beginning to surface of a galaxy of influences and interests that formed around him at that time for his benefit: a firmament of Gazprom directors, former lobbyists for Ukrainian dictator Viktor Yanukovych (including Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign manager for much of his run to the presidency), and prominent organized-crime figures.
Trade figures tell a similar story of growing influence.
Available figures also probably overestimate progress on access to safe water.
Trump, however, has praised the United Kingdom’s decision to leave the EU, and his only European friends so far are figures such as UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage, who led the UK’s Brexit campaign and even stumped for Trump in the US.
In other words, the government eliminates the threat posed by leading opposition figures by jailing them or forcing them into exile, regardless of their prominence.
One such trend is the emergence of independent figures of public moral authority: successful businessmen, respected academics and journalists, famous writers, and influential bloggers.
That is still not good enough, but these figures make training and job creation schemes realistic instead of hopeless.
According to figures announced by the country’s National Police Agency, the Great East Japan Earthquake left behind 15,848 dead and 3,305 missing – the largest loss of life due to natural disaster in Japan since World War II.
Major foreign policy decisions simply aren’t made that way: allies are consulted beforehand; relevant congressional figures are at least informed before any such announcement.
Under strong pressure from right-wing media figures to keep his promise, Trump made and abandoned budget deals until time ran out.
Since Kirchner replaced the lead inflation statistician at the National Statistics Institute in 2007, Argentina’s official inflation figures have been conspicuously lower than other estimates.
(Chile’s inflation figures have been criticized, too, though to a much smaller extent, and Chile’s state statistics institute is far more independent of the government than Argentina’s.)
Those figures are 11%, 9%, and 7%, respectively, in the northwest; and 8%, 6.5%, and 6%, respectively, in Yorkshire and Humberside.
Yet while it makes little sense to focus on simple aggregate figures, both public institutions and private researchers tend to do precisely that.
The figures are certainly daunting: China’s debt-to-GDP ratio now stands at about 250%, with private-sector debt amounting to about 210% of GDP.
Another year passed before his office issued indictments against high-ranking figures responsible for major crimes.
This proved too much for one Iranian legislator, Akbar Alami, who publicly questioned Ahmadinejad’s judgment, saying that even Islam’s holiest figures have never made such claims.
In Cambodia, the United Nations and the government have dickered for almost a decade about how to bring surviving Khmer Rouge figures to trial.
The comparable figures for Shi’ites were 10 and 14%, respectively, but were just 4% and 5%, respectively, for Sunnis.
“Ordinary people,” he asserted, knew that the true number of immigrants was larger than official government figures showed.
Collectively, these remarkable figures amount to a public health miracle.
Despite the region’s progress, one in four children remain unprotected against diseases like measles and hepatitis, and the figures are even higher for major killers such as pneumonia and meningitis.
Moreover, the legally mandated savings rate is only 10% of the monthly wage, and men and women can retire at 65 and 60, respectively – figures that are much lower than the OECD average.
Instead, I argue that while most people are good most of the time, they can readily be led to act anti-socially, because most people are rarely solitary figures improvising soliloquies on the empty stage of life.
These figures are low because domestic spending or other funding sources are not high enough to make up the difference.
Both take pride in denigrating political opponents and international figures, such as former President Barack Obama and Pope Francis.
And yet, although these figures point to a trajectory of rapid growth, they fall short of what is needed – as well of what well-functioning capital markets can provide.
A number of politicians and public figures sympathetic to the idea objected to what they saw as the government’s highhandedness.
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