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But there is nothing normal about an economy that is already twice as large as the next largest, Japan, and will possibly outstrip the European Union within the next five years.
The task facing Pisani-Ferry and Enderlein is to create a new reform strategy for Europe’s two largest economies, focusing on structural reforms in France and increased investment in Germany.
The Tibetan plateau’s vast glaciers, huge underground springs and high altitude make Tibet the world’s largest freshwater repository after the polar icecaps.
Mercantilism suggests, among other things, that Germany is the world’s strongest economy, because it has the largest current-account surplus.
It would be good for Southern Europe, which needs to export more, but can only do so if someone else, like the largest Northern European economy, imports more.
Ten years ago, non-domestic assets were barely one-sixth of the total European assets of the EU’s largest banks; the proportion today has grown to one-third.
Grillo’s movement secured more than 25% of the lower-house vote in its first-ever national election, becoming the largest single party in the chamber (though the PD-SEL coalition is larger).
In Pakistan, however, he implemented an aid surge, turning it into the largest recipient of US aid, even though the Afghan Taliban leadership and Al Qaeda remnants remained ensconced in the country.
Defying the Garden of Eden SyndromeACCRA – When you fly into Takoradi, Ghana’s fourth largest city and an industrial and commercial center, one of the first things you notice are the oil rigs along the coast.
Their compatriots in Sierra Leone also want to know what will happen now that they, too, have won the commodities lottery: last year, the country struck oil and discovered one of the largest iron-ore deposits in the world.
He has put development at the forefront, saying explicitly, “It’s time for a development professional to lead the world's largest development agency.”
That would be good news for the US economy, which currently devotes nearly 18% of GDP to health care, by far the largest share among developed countries.
It would also be good news for America’s fiscal position, because Medicare and Medicaid are the two largest contributors to the long-term federal budget deficit.
India probably encompasses the world's largest middle class.
The riskiest institutions were not the largest: firms like J. P. Morgan and HSBC proved safer than others, and neither sought nor needed state funding.
It would seem that among many of the world’s largest central banks, no one wants to be the one with the strong currency.
The liberal Russia’s Choice party, led by the country’s first democratic prime minister, Yegor Gaidar, received 15.5% of the vote in the 1993 general election, and with its allies formed the largest bloc in the Duma.
The EU is by far the largest export market for African goods, and it also offers a home to large communities from almost every African country.
Beyond its massive natural-resource endowments, the continent has a favorable demographic profile (its rapidly growing population means that it will soon have the world’s largest workforce) and high urbanization rates.
One of us recently observed a street protest in Wuhan, the largest city in central China.
The US has the largest recoverable shale-gas reserves and the second-largest recoverable shale-oil reserves in the world.
It is for this reason that Greece and Germany, its largest creditor, need a new modus vivendi in order to resume negotiations.
But the Global Capital Index constructed by Thomas Hoenig, the FDIC’s vice chairman, indicates that the largest US banks are still 95% debt-financed.
The United States and Europe (both European Union member governments and the EU itself) are the largest contributors to the UN High Commission on Refugees, but many other governments are unwilling to commit their fair share.
The world’s 20 largest cities, 75% of which are in Asia, will need an estimated 36 million new housing units by 2025.
History placed Merkel amid raging storms: a series of eurozone crises that drove wedges between Europeans; economic tensions at home that fueled social fragmentation; and the largest migration wave since World War II, which intensified European and domestic anxieties.
Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger captured the allure in recent testimony: “The subject of nuclear arms control grew out of the seemingly paradoxical effort of those who had created the largest and most destructive arsenals to avoid by negotiation the ultimate consequences of their own decisions.”
Bill Gates created a company with one of the largest market capitalizations in the world yet can move with ease through customs with "nothing to declare."
Jon Huntsman, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, is addressing this directly – insisting that we should force the largest banks to break up and to become safer.
Daniel Vasella, the chairman and CEO of Switzerland-based Novartis, the world's fifth largest pharmaceutical company, recently wrote that multinational companies "have a duty to adhere to fundamental values and to support and promote them."
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