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By contrast, China's railways carry
five
times as much freight as India's, even though China has a far better road network.
A recent McKinsey Global Institute study identifies
five
mutually reinforcing “game changers” that could have a significant effect on GDP growth, productivity, and employment in the US by 2020: shale energy, big-data analytics, exports in knowledge-intensive industries, infrastructure investment, and talent development.
US production of shale gas and oil has been growing by more than 50% annually over the last
five
years.
This number is up sharply from just
five
years ago, owing primarily to chaos across the Middle East, with Syria alone the source of nearly one in every four refugees in the world today.
But the fact remains that its economy, supposedly the most flexible in Europe, has not recovered from the shock
five
years later, despite massive fiscal and monetary stimulus, coupled with a substantial devaluation.
Moreover, the saving rate has been moving sideways, at above 6%, over the past
five
years, rather than falling precipitously, as was previously thought.
But
five
years after the brutal suppression of the demands for freedom heard in Budapest, Khrushchev was not fully convinced of the need to divide Berlin.
The region's economies have not experienced significant growth in the past
five
years (nor have they grown more than 5% annually in the past 20 years).
The expected inflation rate over the next ten years implied by the inflation-indexed bonds rose 0.3 percentage points in the 14 months after July 2016, but then increased 0.8 percentage points in the next
five
months.
In Italy, a 10% fall in the stock market following the Brexit vote clearly signals the country’s vulnerability to a full-blown banking crisis – which could well bring the populist
Five
Star Movement, which has just won the mayoralty in Rome, to power as early as next year.
Home to almost
five
million Jews, Israel became a haven for more than one million Jews fleeing Arab lands.
Media reports indicate, for example, that nearly 25,000 US marines, soldiers, family members, and civilian employees are to descend on the tiny island of Guam in the next
five
years to ease the overconcentration of US forces on the Japanese island of Okinawa without pulling back too far from the flashpoints of Taiwan and North Korea.
As then-Under Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz explained to General Wesley Clark in 1991: “We learned that we can intervene militarily in the region with impunity, and the Soviets won’t do a thing to stop us… [We’ve] got about
five
to ten years to take out these old Soviet ‘surrogate’ regimes – Iraq, Syria, and the rest – before the next superpower [China] comes along to challenge us in the region.”
The nuclear pact between Iran and the Security Council’s
five
permanent members (the US, China, France, Russia, and the UK) plus Germany, has just provided a powerful demonstration of the Council’s capacity to lead.
This is the same UN whose officials took kickbacks from the Iraqi oil for food program and jetted around the world on Concorde while supposedly trying to ameliorate poverty, and whose Commission on Human Rights was until recently chaired by Libya and now includes
five
of the world's fifteen most repressive nations - China, Cuba, Eritrea, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan.
Over the last
five
years, Sino-American relations have changed fundamentally.
The EU’s next
five
decades, on the other hand, will see the baby boomers moving into retirement, leaving a shrunken labor force with the heavy burden of supporting their elders’ health care and pension needs.
Five
years from now, we will wonder what took us so long to get started.
Yet there were 11 earthquakes greater than 8.5 last century, and only 11 years into this century, there have been
five.
We are proposing that subsidies be capped immediately and eliminated within
five
years, and that countries be fully transparent about all fishing subsidies, about 60% of which directly encourage unsustainable practices.
In
five
years, if ocean decline continues and adequate prevention measures have not been implemented, the international community should consider turning the high seas – with the exception of those areas where action by regional fisheries management organizations is effective – into a regeneration zone where industrial fishing is forbidden.
As the American economist Paul Samuelson famously quipped, “The stock market has called nine of the last
five
recessions.”
These
five
poor states contain 45% of India's population, and 56% of its poor.
With an annual growth rate of 10%, an investment rate of 50% implies a capital-output ratio of five, which is unusually high relative to other countries.
Outside West Africa, there have been fewer than 30 cases, and only
five
deaths.
At the end of 2016, there were an estimated 11.6 million refugees experiencing “protracted displacement”: they have been away from their homes for more than
five
years and have no “immediate prospects” of return.
Austerity has similarly sharpened a long-standing crisis of statehood and political legitimacy in Italy, reflected in the rise of a new anti-establishment party, the
Five
Star Movement, which claims to transcend the traditional left-right political spectrum.
The sense of revulsion is acute: Many of the
Five
Star Movement’s supportershope to transfer control of Italy’s government to citizen-representatives, whose every move would be digitally monitored to preclude corruption.
For the last
five
years, Pakistan’s annual GDP growth has averaged just 3% – half the rate needed to absorb two million new labor-force entrants every year.
Only last month, in Narok, the town nearest my childhood village, a 13-year-old girl died after undergoing circumcision as a preparation for her marriage to a man who already had
five
wives.
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