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For the time being, America’s private sector is running a surplus that is sufficient to fund roughly 75% of the government’s voracious appetite.
But, despite the central bank’s attempts to calm the markets – which cost roughly 140 billion francs ($151 billion) – the franc appreciated by more than 20% against the euro.
This rate of potential output growth – roughly half the pre-crisis trend – is associated with an aggregate unemployment rate of about 8%.
These economies’ combined size is now approximately that of the US economy, with total annual output reaching $15-16 trillion, or roughly 25% of global GDP.
Consider Somalia, whose people, unlike those of most other newly independent African states, had roughly the same linguistic and ethnic background.
Venezuela is roughly twice the size of Iraq, has as many as 100,000 armed citizens, and is riddled with Cuban intelligence officers assisting the regime.
Compliance would mean an estimated $67 billion increase in Alliance-wide defense spending, or roughly the equivalent of adding another British or French defense budget – no panacea, but very helpful nonetheless.
To meet this goal, the AfDB estimates that roughly 40% of the continent’s new connections – 75 million households – will need to come from off-grid solutions.
This diplomatic strike occurred at roughly the same time that Taiwan was failing - for the thirteenth time - in its bid to re-enter the United Nations, having been expelled when China was admitted in 1971.
Today, roughly 65 countries have such laws.
Roughly 15 million people suffer from co-infection of HIV and Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the primary causative agent in most TB cases.
While treating MDR-TB remains possible, doing so is arduous, with a treatment time of roughly two years, using drugs that are neither as efficient nor as benign as canonical drugs – and at a cost that rises by a factor of 10-100.
Likewise, the dramatic reduction in the cost of gene sequencing, from roughly $40 million per human genome in 2003 to about $5,000 today, together with a rapid increase in computational power, is boosting the speed, accuracy, and robustness of medical diagnostic tests.
Everywhere the recipe is roughly the same: delegate policy to a group of competent people - the central bank - by making them formally independent from political pressure and providing them with a clear, explicit mandate.
Roughly one-quarter of these people – 230 million – are Indian.
India, by contrast, processes roughly 2%.
Assuming that the average wedding costs roughly 300,000 rupees ($5,700), Indians spend about Rs3 trillion on weddings each year – roughly one-third of which is allotted to the meal.
The boost to 2010 GDP, when the peak effect of the stimulus kicked in, was roughly twice as great.
The average cyclically adjusted fiscal deficit has been roughly constant since 2014, at around 1% of GDP.
It has been roughly 300 years since religious people came to understand that being of a different faith, or being agnostic, did not disqualify one from public office.
PRINCETON – When I wrote the cover article of the July/August issue of The Atlantic, entitled “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” I expected a hostile reaction from many American career women of my generation and older, and positive reactions from women aged roughly 25-35.
But, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) has risen by roughly 30% since Trump’s inauguration, the extent to which the market’s rise was due to the president’s policies is uncertain.
America has spent roughly $800 billion in direct military outlays in Afghanistan, and indeed has been at war there almost non-stop since the CIA covertly intervened in 1979, helping to provoke the Soviet invasion of that country.
The indirect costs of the two wars (including the long-term costs of veterans’ disabilities) roughly equal the direct costs.
Together, the sum of the current-account deficits of the United States, the United Kingdom, and major Commonwealth countries amounts to more than $800 billion, or roughly 60% of the global total of all external deficits.
In Europe, banks supply roughly 70% of the credit to European economies, compared to 30% in the US.
In fact, a 2012 study by Ernst & Young reveals that one US hub (Silicon Valley) alone boasts almost $12.6 billion in cumulative venture capital, while the United Kingdom, first among European countries, accounts for roughly $1.75 billion and Germany for $665 million.
But despite their radically different political and economic systems, the two countries have roughly the same level of income inequality.
Each country’s Gini coefficient – the most commonly used measure of income equality – is roughly 0.47.
Today, the average income of the top 1% is roughly 30 times that of the average person in the remaining 99%.
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