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On one hand, because it covered only those countries projected to emit roughly half of the world’s greenhouse-gas emissions by mid-century, it was not an effective long-run safeguard against the dangers of global warming.
This year, the US will borrow roughly $800 billion to finance its trade deficit.
Incredibly, the US is now soaking up roughly two-thirds of all global net saving, a situation without historical precedent.
This is roughly the journey of discovery that the American biotechnologist J. Craig Venter and his colleagues have been taking for the past two decades – only their marvelous devices are not archeological remains, but living organisms.
(Humans, by comparison, have roughly 20,000 genes.)
Roughly half of this money went to Russia, the Middle East, and North Africa.
The verdict, roughly, was “so far, so good.”
For roughly one billion people, bare survival is nothing short of precarious.
Although roughly 85% of Brazil’s 147 million voters agree that the country is heading in the wrong direction, they are more polarized than ever, both online and offline.
Meanwhile, the number of oil rigs nationwide increased by roughly 50%.
Iran’s currency, the rial, has fallen roughly 40% in recent weeks, sharply increasing Iran’s inflation rate and what Iranians must pay for imports and many staples.
Most notable is the comparison with Poland: at independence, the two countries had roughly the same GDP per capita; today, Poland’s is more than three times higher.
I have been to roughly 70 countries, and have discovered roughly 70 different ways to run things badly.
Natural resources are a major potential source of wealth for developing countries; in 2010, the total value of mineral and fuel exports from Asia, Africa, and South and Central America was roughly 15 times higher than the aid that they received.
Likewise, the British government has suggested that an open registry would save the UK and its businesses roughly £300 million ($460 million) annually by simplifying due diligence for financial institutions and reducing domestic financial crime.
The CDU/CSU and the SPD are now pursuing a grand coalition that would keep Germany roughly on the same path it has taken during the last eight years.
Transportation, mostly cars, accounts for roughly another one-third.
Roughly half of Greece’s external debt migrated from the private sector to official institutions.
With roughly $2 trillion in foreign-exchange reserves, the Chinese do have deep pockets to fund massive increases in government spending, and to help backstop bank loans.
Moreover, unemployment in the eurozone has skyrocketed to an average rate of roughly 12%, with more than 50% youth unemployment in the periphery countries implying a long-term loss of talent and erosion of the tax base.
Ever since the beginning of the 1990s, when private credit to emerging markets soared to roughly ten times its annual average in 1970-89, the main source of financial contagion has not been moral hazard, but what might best be called globalization hazard.
According to the Swedish International Peace Research Institute, total military spending in constant 2005 dollars reached roughly $1.4 trillion in 2007.
In other words, the US spends roughly the same amount spent by the rest of the world combined – a pattern that the Obama administration shows no signs of ending.
Even Iran, where the Revolutionary Guards control roughly one-third of the economy, was affected when the result of the presidential election in 2009 triggered large anti-government protests in Tehran and other major cities.
Roughly 80% of China’s energy imports pass through that potential chokepoint, which is mostly policed by the US Navy.
The first phase, roughly from January 2011 until March 2012, was largely an internal affair.
How long, one wonders, will Jean-Luc Mélenchon – a contender in France’s presidential election last spring, who now aspires to lead the opposition as the head of La France Insoumise, a left-wing populist party whose name translates roughly as “rebellious France” – continue to sing the praises of Venezuela’s murderous regime?
While it is true that roughly 7,000 asylum seekers have arrived by boat this year, the annual average since 1976 is closer to 1,000.
In contrast, the humanitarian intake from Indochina in 1976-1981 was roughly 150,000.
In fact, Australia has accepted roughly 7,000-10,000 refugees annually from UNHCR camps.
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