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These figures seem at odds with the results of Egypt’s recent parliamentary election, in which the Muslim Brothers and the Salafi fundamentalists together gained about 65% of the popular vote.
And, because few taxpayers have incentives to inflate their reported income, the resultant figures are unlikely to be overestimates.
If the success of a TV pundit with a red rubber nose is a rebuke to the dull and fawning anchormen, the political success in recent years of entertainers, demagogues, and public figures who make a virtue of their indiscretion is a slap in the face of the professional political class which they profess to despise.
Several figures from the “free officers” – the group that plotted the 1969 coup against the monarchy – are leading the INC.
Those figures hold a mix of historical legitimacy, for participating in the 1969 coup, and current legitimacy, for helping the 17th February revolution.
While billions of dollars in aid have led to improvements in urban areas, where health facilities have been built and midwives trained, the overall maternal death figures have hardly changed.
Do these figures reflect alarming imbalances or are they the usual signs of a boom?
In Asia, the figures were 30% for Afghanistan and 38% for Tajikistan, while in Europe Moldova received 31% of its GDP from external sources.
But there is another way: The sender figures out what matters, and puts money behind that choice.
Other pro-revolution figures secured several cabinet portfolios as well: education, legal and parliamentary affairs, industry and foreign trade, and most importantly, the justice ministry.
The “power” ministries – interior and defense – were kept under the control of figures associated with the former regime.
Four other ministries went to pro-revolution and Islamist figures.
Overall, only ten of the 35 ministries went to pro-change forces, with the other ministers a combination of old-regime figures and technocrats without any publicly declared political affiliation.
Europe-wide presidential elections, for which many senior political figures have called, would help to stem the erosion of political legitimacy that has cost the EU, in its technocratic incarnation, the respect, sense of identification, and even the attention of its citizens.
In 2016, according to OECD figures, the United Arab Emirates, Norway, Luxembourg, Sweden, Denmark, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and Germany reached that level.
Only by demonstrating professionalism in its work, and willingness to hold senior government figures accountable where appropriate, can the ICC engender broad and lasting support.
These figures provide some useful insights into the evolving social fabric of Arab societies.
In fact, the latest figures from the World Bank indicate that growth reached just 2.7% in 2011, and will slow this year to 2.5% – a figure that may well need to be revised downwards.
It reduces a complex policy to a stark set of figures: if we invest one extra dollar (or euro, taka, gourde, or peso), we will get a return that is x times higher.
Such figures have fueled the perception that Germany’s economy is booming, and that its future would be even brighter if the eurozone’s weaker economies were not dragging it down.
It is telling that most of the symposium’s 47 participants – influential public- and private-sector figures from around the world – were unaware of the extent to which a mother’s nutrition affects her offspring’s wellbeing.
Such figures start out attacking their opponents’ corruption and accuse them of hijacking the state for a self-serving political establishment that excludes the interests of ordinary people.
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Liberal Party, not Labour, was the Conservatives’ main rival in the UK, thriving under the leadership of figures like William Gladstone and David Lloyd George.
The problem for the rest of Europe is that Brexit itself could serve as the accelerant for popular passions, with feckless populist figures happily fanning the flames.
But when the GDP figures for the second quarter are reported later this summer, the government’s statisticians will annualize the 1.5% increase and add 6% in calculating the annual growth rate.
Upon assuming a powerful position, no effective leader – in government, business, or anywhere else – publicly excoriates future staff; lashes out in response to any and all criticism; disparages highly regarded public figures; or refuses to learn about the issues he or she will have to address.
But China’s import figures for the first half of this year have virtually flat-lined, suggesting that Chinese firms are not investing in new equipment – and thus that China’s economy may hit the doldrums soon.
Until recently, figures on the extreme right had no prestige at all.
And, because the violence tends to come in dribs and drabs – rarely since 2004 has any one day’s casualties reached double figures – the South has never risen back up the news agenda.
Figures for the ICTR are only slightly better.
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