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Nearly 50,000 Twitter accounts are propagating these vehicles of hatred, seeking to exploit ignorance, intolerance, and divisions within societies.
Given that its debt will still be about 170% of GDP this year, the 4.1%-of-GDP interest bill implies that the Greek government pays an average interest rate of just 2.4% – far less than the nearly 9% rate that the market is now charging on ten-year Greek government bonds.
The IMF estimates that these cyclical effects on revenue and outlays have raised the overall deficit by nearly 5% of Greek GDP.
But, unless Greece is able to increase its rate of economic growth, the budget will remain in deficit and the debt will remain at nearly its current share of GDP.
Given that nearly all consumer and industrial products are in short supply in Africa, similar job-creation partnerships could be established in other sectors, resulting in permanent, mutually beneficial cooperation between Europe and Africa.
Last year, for example, when C. Glenn Begley and Lee Ellis sought to reproduce 53 “landmark” preclinical cancer studies, they discovered that nearly 90% of the findings could not be reproduced.
The euro might seem like a strong contender, given the volume of trade among eurozone countries; but, outside Europe, the currency is not used nearly as widely as the dollar.
As Reverby put it, “I’d spent nearly two decades explaining that there had been no inoculation at Tuskegee, that while the PHS had used deplorable ethics, they had never infected anyone with syphilis.”
China’s Planning AddictionTOKYO – In early September, I visited China for the first time in nearly ten years.
Last year, the country suffered stagflation, with GDP dropping by 2.3% and inflation reaching nearly 40%.
Indeed, between search engines and ubiquitous apps, knowledge is at our fingertips nearly always, making our lives easier and more productive.
Since 1993, we have worked with more than 73,000 women in nearly 3,300 savings groups, bringing services directly to the women who need them.
Today, nearly 390 million people suffer from Type-2 diabetes, and within two decades the total number of cases is expected to exceed 592 million.
The OLA, created under the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation of 2010, was intended to prevent a recurrence of what happened in September 2008, when one failing firm, Lehman Brothers, was able to trigger a cascade effect that nearly destroyed the financial system.
In the last hundred years, contests of nationalism (with God on both sides) nearly annihilated Europe, and the Cold War could have done so.
While nearly a third of African economies will grow by around 5%, slowdowns are likely in at least a dozen others.
Sharp increases in public debt, which has reached 50% of GDP in nearly half of Sub-Saharan countries, are particularly worrying.
In Ireland, for example, nearly one-quarter of loans are non-performing.
By contrast, the average level of fixed-line telecommunication penetration in developing countries is nearly 50 years behind the levels of the West.
Likewise, the killing of 13 Chinese boat crewmen on the Mekong River in October serves as a stark reminder that China’s presumably peaceful southern land border, which has been untroubled for nearly 20 years, today resembles the most hostile sort of neighborhood.
The truce is not nearly as good for China.
We must now move with ambition that matches this historic deal – one supported by nearly 200 countries.
However, it took nearly two centuries of wars, political and social disasters, and decolonization before this idea became globally accepted, at least in theory.
Until these barriers are removed, there is little hope that China’s slowing economy – which grew by 7.4% in 2014, its lowest rate in nearly a quarter-century – can rely on reform to give it the push it needs.
Meles Zenawi, who hosted the summit, has ruled Ethiopia for nearly 20 years and has convinced no one outside his circle of cronies that his country's elections have been free and fair.
Five hundred years ago, the Atlantic rainforest stretched nearly the entirety of Brazil’s 8,500-kilometer coastline; today, less than 7% remains.
In 2003, the Brazilian Amazon lost 23,750 square kilometers of forest – an area nearly the size of Belgium.
Economic growth has averaged nearly 6% over the last decade, and the poverty rate has declined rapidly since the 1990s.
Nearly one in four children in Bangladesh under the age of five are malnourished to the point of being stunted, which hinders mental development, lowers school performance, and leads to lower productivity, worse health outcomes, and more disease later in life.
But if it needs to start somewhere, the analysis shows that money that could save one person from dying of cervical cancer would save nearly 50 from dying from TB.
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