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Although the rate of online voting in Estonia increased by nearly 20% between the 2007 and 2011 elections there, overall voter turnout increased by fewer than two percentage points (from 61.9% to 63.5%).
Two faculty members severed ties with the center, and a petition to reverse the decision has gathered nearly 4,000 signatures.
If developing countries are allowed to grow, and there is no corresponding mitigation of the growth in their carbon emissions, average per capita CO2 emissions around the world will nearly double in the next 50 years, to roughly four times the safe level, regardless of what advanced countries do.
Little has changed since Italian economists Alberto Alesina and Francesco Giavazzi noted, nearly a decade ago, that, “Without serious, deep, and comprehensive reforms, Europe will inexorably decline, both economically and politically.”
Post-election polls show that 80% of Palestinians still want a peace agreement with Israel and nearly 70% support Abbas as president.
Since 2009, Boko Haram alone has killed more than 10,000 people in Nigeria and has driven nearly a half-million from their homes.
Government spending has already been cut 8% in real terms this year, relative to 2015 – large, but not nearly enough to balance the budget.
This strategy was nearly thwarted, when government efforts failed to prevent a parliamentary vote on triggering Article 50, officially launching Brexit negotiations.
The region’s urban population is set to double, to 3.2 billion people, by 2050, by which time nearly three-quarters of its total population could face water stress.
India, whose GDP is now growing at nearly 8% annually, could eventually comprise a fourth, but it has some way to go.
On July 1, 2003, the sixth anniversary of the handover, nearly a million people took to Hong Kong’s streets in a peaceful protest against an anti-subversion bill that would have eroded freedom of the press, of religion, and of association.
The 34 reactors that started up over the last decade had a mean construction time of nearly ten years, but contributed just 26 GW – one-third of what solar and wind added in one year.
But, under orders from senior government officials, the Jordanian Press and Publications Department recently blocked nearly 300 news Web sites.
True, bureaucratic rules are not nearly as constraining as they were during the pre-1991 “license raj.”
And yet, despite everything, India’s economy did record roughly 9% growth for several years, and even now is growing by nearly 6% annually, behind only China and Indonesia among major economies.
Already, Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj has tacitly warned of economic sanctions if China, which is running an annual trade surplus of nearly $60 billion with India, continues to disturb border peace.
While the government is determined to keep news of all disturbances out of the media--or at least downplay their size and disruptiveness--it has been possible to collect information on nearly 200 separate events occurring between 1994 and 2004, some from news sources in Hong Kong, some from the Western media, and a few from Chinese publications.
Job losses in the range of 60 million have suddenly rendered nearly an eighth of the urban populace indigent.
Egypt’s leaders deem the proposal a mere conversation, something not nearly as serious as a written diplomatic initiative.
Nearly all countries in the world are at most one generation away from near-universal literacy.
Achieving gender equality is more than a once-in-a-generation opportunity; it is also the best way to make progress on nearly all of the SDGs, and to build a world where everyone can thrive.
Today, for example, women make up nearly half of the agricultural workforce in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The nationalist revolutions of the 1950’s and 1960’s, inspired and galvanized by Gamel Nasser’s Egypt, nearly toppled the House of Saud.
That outcome seemed highly likely six months ago, when global financial markets nearly collapsed.
To be sure, ties with the EU would not be severed immediately, and the UK government would have a couple of years to negotiate a trade agreement with the European Single Market, which accounts for nearly half of British exports.
Yet Pakistan, too, remains oblivious to the humiliating impact of its own actions: its nearly four-decade-long history of interference in Afghanistan to secure “strategic depth” will leave Afghanistan traumatized for years to come, in a way that Russia-inflicted losses did not.
To be sure, the speed and magnitude of the integration of nearly a billion Chinese and Indian workers into global labor markets is unprecedented and will hurt some workers and communities in developed countries.
Japan’s Successful Economic ModelTOKYO – Nearly everyone says that Japan’s economic model has imploded.
After all, the dollar value of gold has nearly tripled since 2005.
The country suffers from an unemployment rate of nearly 10%, and its manufacturing sector is still operating 12% below its level before the 2008 global financial crisis.
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