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Far from devaluing the renminbi, the People’s Bank of China has spent $1 trillion of its reserves over the last three years trying to support it (by far the largest such intervention in history).
The single largest area of US government procurement is defense, a sector in which even the European Union has found it difficult to make inroads.
In the past, the US took advantage of its position as the world’s biggest economic power and largest trader to rule out any multilateral trade provisions that did not serve its interests; otherwise, the US would not promote free trade.
Otherwise, Africa will have the world’s largest population of unemployed and frustrated youths.
The Congo basin represents the second largest mass of tropical forest in the world, with 220 million hectares.
Moreover, Africa will experience by far the largest growth in energy requirements of any world region in the next 50 years.
The aid that Ethiopia receives from its friends may be a small price to pay to keep Africa’s second largest country from descending into chaos.
Such a plan would prioritize measurable progress toward decarbonizing the world’s largest economies over the establishment of global climate treaties or long-term global targets.
For example, the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise was the largest ever, including more than 42 ships and 25,000 personnel from 22 countries, while the US and China staged their first-ever maritime counter-piracy exercise near the Horn of Africa.
When the new anti-monopoly committee was first established in Russia, it began its life by making a list of potential monopolies it wanted to regulate, which included Russia's largest industrial enterprises, but also many bakeries, shops and bathhouses that it claimed were local monopolies.
Ethanol accounts for more than 50% of current light-vehicle fuel demand in the country, and Petrobras – Brazil’s energy giant and one of the largest companies in Latin America – expects this share to increase to more than 80% by 2020.
Indeed, in a sense, the world’s largest economy is falling apart.
China has been the developing world’s largest recipient of FDI since the mid-1990s.
Outflows continued to rise to $57 billion in 2009, a time when global FDI flows had collapsed by 50%, making China the world’s fifth largest outward investor.
To be sure, Germany accounts for the largest share of the eurozone’s external surplus, and three related arguments are typically used to justify the call for German authorities to use fiscal policy to address it.
More broadly, regional balance-of-payments data show that eurozone investors have been the largest foreign purchasers of US Treasury securities since the APP began.
This week’s summit will be the largest single gathering of world leaders in human history.
Yes, he is the most powerful leader that the world’s largest one-party state has had in decades.
The world’s three largest powers – the “big troika” – must come together to create the conditions for a peaceful transition to a new, more stable world order.
Thus, if all of the global economy’s largest pieces fall into place, there is no reason why 2012 should be a disaster.
This would require intense debate and soul-searching, particularly in Germany, which, as the EU’s largest and best-rated economy, has been thrust into the position of deciding the future of Europe.
America fears deflation;Europe – driven by its largest economy, Germany – fears national debt and inflation.
Merkel will play the central role in deciding how Europe positions itself, not only because she is the leader of the EU’s largest economy, but also because she wants to be re-elected in September.
While some of France’s largest companies – like Michelin, LVMH, and Air Liquide – remain successful, they cannot offset the economy’s lack of a solid base of small and medium-size enterprises.
China’s export growth is slipping, owing to faltering demand in Europe, which has surpassed the United States as China’s largest foreign market.
This has fueled concern that the populist bloc will be the largest in the European Parliament after next year’s EU-wide election.
Russia’s Indefensible Military BudgetPARIS – On May 9, Russia held its largest military parade since the Soviet era.
In 2009 China became the world’s largest exporter.
And last year, according to the IMF, China overtook the United States to become the world’s largest economy (in purchasing power parity terms).
The US government is the world’s largest funder of medical research and development; globally, taxpayers finance a third of spending on health research.
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