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Only the Czech Republic reached its historic maximum nuclear share last year.
The UN Security Council should provide an international framework in which the major powers pull back, lift crippling economic sanctions, and abide by political agreements reached by the region’s own governments and factions.
In many areas – financial services, infrastructure, communications technology, and tourism – I would say we have reached our goals for Hong Kong.
In 2007, global capital flows reached a record high of $12.4 trillion, or 21% of the global economy.
The UN does work closely with the Syrian government, and humanitarian aid has not consistently reached areas outside of government control.
Before the invasion, Iraq's oil production capacity reached three million barrels per day.
In the late 1980s, falling GDP growth (the annual per capita rate reached a low of 2% in 1989) and a rising volume of non-performing loans (NPLs) fueled expectations of an economic implosion.
With America facing a “fiscal cliff” – automatic tax increases and spending cuts at the start of 2013 that will most likely drive the economy into recession unless bipartisan agreement on an alternative fiscal path is reached – could there be anything worse than continued political gridlock?
Despite these geopolitical risks, global financial markets have reached new heights.
In the period since 2000, development aid worldwide reached about $900 billion, of which perhaps $200 billion was due to the MDGs.
The level of misery, human suffering, and destruction has reached a point where the international community must rethink how it can help.
The sun was shining, the sea was blue, and I was aware of the Pacific Ocean stretching ahead thousands of miles, uninterrupted by land until it reached the coast of Chile.
Most Russians reached this conclusion long before the Beslan attack.
Indeed, around 1950, the world seems to have reached a tipping point, with practically every factor that heightens humanity’s impact on the planet – population, GDP, fertilizer use, the proliferation of telephones, and paper consumption, to name only a few – beginning to increase rapidly.
Last year’s misinterpretation of the Mayan calendar clearly helped – and was probably helped by – the proprietors of some Yucatan hotels, which reached 100% occupancy in the weeks surrounding the world’s projected end.
Neoliberal economics has reached a breaking point, causing the traditional left-right political divide to be replaced by a different split: between those seeking forms of growth that are less inclined toward extreme concentration and those who want to end concentration by closing open markets and societies.
If negotiations between the “troika” (the European Commission, the ECB, and the International Monetary Fund) and the new Greek government succeed, the result will be a face-saving compromise for both sides; if no agreement is reached, Greece will default.
Developed economies have not reached that point today, because the consequences of the 2008 global financial crisis are still dampening demand.
Furthermore, the agreement to be reached in Paris is being built from the bottom up.
The OECD estimates that the flows of public and private climate finance reached $62 billion in 2014.
Even more impressive, China’s current-account surplus, which reached an extraordinary 10% of GDP in 2007, is now barely 2.5% of national income.
The unemployment rate reached 11.4% in 2014, and is considerably higher among young people.
These changes at the top are occurring in a context of severe economic decline brought on by the collapse of world oil prices; budget revenue has been depleted to the point that the fiscal deficit reached 15% of GDP last year.
In high-income countries public expenditure on education reached 5.4% of GDP in 1997, in middle income countries it was 4.8%, but only 3.3% in low income countries, and only 2.2% in Mali.
But Russia's accounting standards--no surprise--have not yet reached international standards.
But, while China’s embrace of the market and opening to the outside world has enabled it to achieve astonishing economic progress over the last three decades, the country might now have reached a level of income at which the problem is no longer “too little market.”
Even for a country with a political history as tumultuous as Argentina’s, partisan polarization and vitriol had reached levels that seemed extreme.
And the budget deficit has reached 7% of GDP.
Of all these countries, the United States appears to be the most likely to have reached the end of the cycle.
The claim that the spread of severe mental illness has reached “epidemic” proportions has been heard so often that, like any commonplace, it has lost its ability to shock.
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