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By 2030, the global middle class will total nearly five billion people, all of whom will expect the same kinds of opportunities and comforts that wealthy populations have long enjoyed.
From People Power to Putin PowerAs I attended a small but dignified memorial ceremony in Paris last week in honor of the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya – a woman “brave beyond limits,” in the words of her French editor – I was reminded of another posthumous tribute I participated in nearly 17 years ago in Moscow.
By August, the dementia had progressed to the point at which, as she put it: “I have nearly lost me.”“I want out,” Bennett wrote, “before the day when I can no longer assess my situation, or take action to bring my life to an end.”
Germany has now become the main destination overall, receiving nearly 40% of the EU total; even on a per capita basis, this is several times more than the EU average.
Republicans nearly unanimously opposed the stimulus.
During the past 12 months, China had a current-account surplus of nearly $300 billion, which must be added to China’s existing holdings of securities denominated in dollars, euros, and other foreign currencies.
Indeed, China’s total annual imports amount to roughly $1.4 trillion, or nearly 40% of GDP.
And it will be nearly impossible to convince European taxpayers and governments to provide further billions of euros without verifiable guarantees and the necessary reforms.
In the nearly 200 years that followed, Congress did so only four more times, three in response to attacks on US maritime interests – the Spanish-American War and the two world wars – and the Mexican-American War in 1846.
India’s Homemade Food CrisisSINGAPORE – According to current estimates, India’s total population will reach 1.45 billion by 2028, similar to China’s, and 1.7 billion by 2050, equivalent to nearly the combined population of China and the United States today.
Sharad Pawar, a former agriculture minister, has noted that food worth $8.3 billion, or nearly 40% of the total value of annual production, is wasted.
Nearly a year and a half on, there are signs of progress toward fulfilling the commitments to Africa’s development made by world leaders and committed campaigners.
In the United States, a study in 2016 by the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown University Law Center found that the facial images of more than 117 million Americans – nearly half of all US adults – were held in US law enforcement databases, some of which are accessible by the FBI.
As a result, his Red Guards destroyed ancient books, priceless antiques, monuments across the land, and nearly all Buddhist monasteries in Tibet.
Now nearly one-third of the Constituent Assembly’s members are women – the highest proportion in South Asia and fourteenth place in the world for nationally elected bodies.
The unbanked, who live primarily in developing countries, comprise nearly half of the world’s working-age population.
Since its 2008 launch, M-PESA has attracted nearly 14 million Kenyans – almost one-third of the country’s total population – who use it for money transfers, savings, and other financial transactions.
Unfortunately, governments did not go nearly far enough in pursuing complementary fiscal and structural responses.
This lack of progress is truly remarkable, given that Iraq’s annual budgets for the last five years have totaled nearly $500 billion.
Between 1950 and 2050, Africa's population is projected to soar by 800%, from 221 million to nearly 1.8 billion, Asia's by 375%, from 1.4 billion to 5.3 billion, and Latin America's by 484%, from 167 million to 809 million.
Corruption may become what it has nearly become in Russia: not the exception to the rule but the rule itself.
Many rebel commanders take issue with the Kurds’ attempt to exploit the Syrian uprising, whose initial goal was to end nearly five decades of oppression, to advance their own interests.
Indeed, nearly a half-billion Chinese lack access to clean drinking water, and the number of terminally polluted rivers and lakes grows daily.
When something is widely hyped, there is nearly always a real reason for it.
The high seas are the earth’s last great global commons, representing nearly 50% of the planet’s surface, and the multiple threats they face require universal solidarity and action.
Indeed, the secular decline in the proportion of national income accounted for by wages and salaries over the last 10 years in nearly every EU economy is a major obstacle to a recovery in private consumption.
China is eager to take advantage of its position as South Korea’s largest trading partner, accounting for nearly one-quarter of its external trade, and main source of foreign tourism.
For nearly 70 years since then, the peninsula has been divided, and now it may be the world’s most dangerous flashpoint.
This universal child benefit was introduced nearly everywhere in Western Europe to encourage childbearing in countries deeply damaged by World War II.
Already in 2014, the Scottish National Party nearly won a popular referendum on independence.
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