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For example, for Spain and Portugal, the sum of past deficits relative to annual exports reached 300% and 400%, respectively, in 2009, whereas a 250% ratio is typically regarded as the threshold at which external-financing problems can arise.
While almost half of Africa's 53 countries could profitably produce hydropower, only 7% of this potential is reached because of poor infrastructure and the high costs of initial investments.
In 2010, growth reached an impressive 7.5% clip, as highly expansionary fiscal and monetary policies, implemented in response to the global financial crisis, lifted the economy out of harm’s way.
The climax was reached on February 25, when the central bank introduced import controls and raised interest rates to 30%.
Values must be the road that leads to what cannot be reached by markets and institutions alone - the accession of Europe's citizens to the European Union.
Turkey's Unending Political CrisisISTANBUL: After months of tension that almost triggered military intervention, Turkey has reached a crossroads.
For the moment, the eurozone may well have reached the point where an amicable divorce is a better option than years of economic decline and political acrimony.
We have not reached that point yet.
From 1978 to 2003, annual real GDP growth in China averaged 8.1% while growth in Mexico – the fastest in Latin America, barely reached 1% a year.
Indeed, Mexico’s trade deficit with China reached $9 billion in 2003.
The new figure was a reasonable admission that the earlier target could not be reached without wrecking the economy.
Trump’s foreign-policy meddling reached its apex – at least so far – in late December, when he tried to interfere with President Barack Obama’s administration’s decision to abstain from voting on a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Israel for continuing to build settlements in occupied Palestinian territories.
All of this adds up to an industry that Bloomberg calculates reached $310 billion in investment last year.
The crisis has now reached Italy and is threatening to spread to France.
Common sense would, of course, have reached the same conclusion.
The IMF proposed one in 2002; but, in the face of concerted lobbying by investors, the scheme was rebuffed and instead an agreement was reached to use collective action clauses (CACs) in debt contracts.
The rate reached its peak in early August, at 87%, when many believed that Russia and Ukraine were on the brink of all-out war.
Yes and true, but they may well have reached the end of their luck.
But Citigroup’s success in lobbying for the rule’s repeal could also signal that regulatory efforts to mitigate systemic financial risk have reached the high-water mark in the US.
The logical French are pushing the parsimonious Germans hard, and a compromise may be reached, but it remains an uphill battle.
Japan was able to pass the new Anti-Terrorist law without revising the Constitution, but the limits of expansive Constitutional interpretation may one day be reached.
Superficially, it may seem as if we have reached that breakthrough moment at which gender is no longer the most important issue.
Outside of the United States, women have already reached the highest level of power.
So has democratic politics around the world reached the point where voters judge politicians, male or female, strictly on their merits?
Don’t Follow America on Health CareTORONTO – With the United States Supreme Court set to begin considering the Affordable Care Act (the historic health-care reform derided by opponents as “Obamacare”), it is worth noting that the number of Americans without health insurance reached an all-time high in 2010, the year the law was enacted.
In the United States, white people increasingly view the prospect that they will become a minority – a milestone expected to be reached in 2045 – as an existential threat, and often act as if they are a disadvantaged group.
He has reached out to workers who feel betrayed by the “system” and threatened by globalization and new technologies; and to teachers and health-care professionals who recognize that public education and health-care services need deep reforms to sustain the social solidarity that they underpinned in the past.
To date, My Teen Life has reached more than 100 teenagers and their families, and a first group of teen mothers has been trained to make jewelry and slippers to generate income.
The Pew Research Center found that China, with 30% approval ratings, had reached near-parity with the US.
Finally, Macri’s government reached a deal with the so-called vulture funds and other holdout creditors that for more than a decade had blocked the country from accessing international credit markets.
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