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As it stands, Africa receives a total of about $60 billion in foreign direct investment each year.
On a per capita basis, Sweden receives 15 times more asylum applications than the United Kingdom, where official policy toward refugees remains the most hostile.
Lodging an application, even one without any chance of being accepted, is appealing, because until it is rejected, the applicant receives basic housing, social services (including health care), and pocket money in an amount that may well exceed wages in his or her home country.
Pragmatic and highly intelligent, sooner or later every issue receives the full attention of his forensic curiosity.
As the leader of the 13th Division, a Syrian rebel brigade that receives American weapons and participates in the larger Turkish operation, declared, rebel forces “will fight anyone who places obstacles before the revolution.”
In just 28 years, over 1.25 billion people have been lifted out of poverty – a miracle that receives far too little attention.
And, alarmingly, only one in six patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis currently receives proper treatment.
Once, at a traditional ceremony, in which an infant child receives his tribal name, I watched the proud father and a half dozen male friends dance together before a crowd of well-wishers.
In exchange for this flexibility, the lender receives a share of any capital gain that is realized when the home is sold.
The US continues to subsidize authoritarian Arab regimes, such as Egypt (which receives at least $2 billion a year), because it buys peace with Israel and maintains US geopolitical influence in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Democracy in the United States, for example, has been accompanied by increasing inequality, so much so that the upper 1% now receives around one-quarter of national income – with wealth being even more inequitably distributed.
Kisumu Medical and Education Trust receives $200,000 per year from the United States government to train doctors to treat postpartum hemorrhaging.
KMET also receives money from European donors and other sources to provide comprehensive reproductive health services, including abortion counseling.
Behind almost every request for asylum that an EU country receives is a human tragedy – a micro-history of violence, fear, and loss.
This hot-button issue is the part of the Summers' proposal that receives the most attention.
Moreover, the Bank of Japan owns government bonds worth 90% of GDP, and ultimately returns to the government as dividends all the money it receives from the government as interest on the bonds it holds.
In Nepal, the richest quintile receives four times as much public education spending as the poorest quintile.
TVET is rarely available to workers in small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) or the informal sector, and it receives too little public financing.
Excluding taxes and contributions paid and transfers and public goods received, the Ifo Institute reckons that the average immigrant to Germany receives a net 2,300 euros annually.
China holds dollars that it receives from its exports to America, while the US, by keeping its market open to Chinese products, helps to generate growth, employment, and stability in China.
Ethiopia’s diplomacy will be vital to minimizing the potential for such violence to spread, but Ethiopia can fulfill this role only if it receives strong strategic backing from the West.
Such parties come to be seen as more mainstream, and their appeal to traditionally harder-to-win women supporters receives a boost.
Implementation is being aided by the substantial support that Egypt receives from other countries – particularly Saudi Arabia and the UAE – as well as the re-engagement, albeit still tentative, of domestic and foreign private capital.
On average, a young European scientist working in the US receives 2.5 times more research support than in Europe.
He receives the Nobel Peace Prize in the hope that maybe he can make next year better.
The captain of England’s professional women’s team, Steph Houghton, is paid just £65,000 ($90,000) a year, whereas Neymar, the world’s most expensive male player, receives roughly 500 times as much.
If, however, no candidate receives 50.1% of the popular vote, the elected legislature chooses the president, who thus would begin his term with a legislative majority.
One reason for international suspicion of Hamas has been the support that it receives from Iran.
North Korea will perhaps understandably resist a negotiation in which it is asked to do everything before it receives anything.
A child dies from malaria every two minutes, on average, yet only one in five infected children receives the appropriate treatment.
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