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China’s Coming Growth TestsBEIJING – The most recent official data show convincingly that the Chinese economy has bottomed out, and it is now widely expected that annual GDP growth should reach roughly 7.8% in 2012.
As a result, “more than a thousand companies are now involved in a digital information value chain that harvests data from any online activity and delivers targeted content to online or mobile users within roughly 36 seconds of their entry into the digital realm.”
Between 1995 and 1999, it spent roughly €3.4 billion in the region, to which the European Investment Bank added a further €4.8 billion in loans.
According to the United Nations, there are roughly 21,500 multinationals based in emerging markets.
Roughly 50% of Chinese savings – amounting to as much as half of GDP – lie in real estate alone, with 20% in deposits, 11% in stocks, and 12% in bonds.
A back-of-the-envelope calculation of mine in 2007 suggested that the world paid financial institutions roughly $800 billion every year for mergers and acquisitions that yielded about $170 billion of real economic value.
So far, the trade deficit has improved; but, with sterling down roughly 25% on a trade-weighted basis for four years, the upward part of the J seems a little distant.
This sounds like a lot, but it is only 1.4% of the roughly $1.9 trillion spent on development aid during this period.
In such an economically insecure global environment, riddled with protectionist booby traps, a free-trade pact between the world’s two largest trading blocs, accounting for roughly 40% of global GDP, has never been more important.
These are three low-income countries with HIV prevalence rates of roughly 15%.
Matters came to a head in August this year, when an initial public offering in India of SKS, a microfinance institution started by Vikram Akula, a graduate of the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, raised roughly $ 350 million.
The share of the world economy represented by the US has declined by roughly half (to around 16% currently).
The Female EconomyWASHINGTON, DC – Today, women own roughly 35% of small and medium-size enterprises in developing countries, and make up approximately 40% of the global workforce.
China’s economic output is nearly twice that of the rest of the BRICS combined, and roughly 30 times that of South Africa.
In Poland, Greece, and Portugal – where the regional disparities averaged roughly four percentage points in 2009, compared to the EU average of 11.8 – a higher degree of thematic concentration would deliver the strongest results.
As it stands, a lack of confidence in institutions is not only discouraging long-term investment; it is also driving roughly half of Latin America’s small-business owners to operate in the informal economy, thereby avoiding laws and taxes they believe will applied unfairly.
Ukraine’s international reserves are a reassuring $26 billion, roughly one-quarter of the country’s GDP.
In 2010, some 600,000 European citizens died prematurely because of outdoor and indoor air pollution, and the economic costs have been put at $1.6 trillion, roughly 9% of the European Union’s GDP.
If institutional investors refuse to hold stocks for more than a few months, the thinking goes, CEOs’ time horizons for corporate planning must shrink to roughly the same timeframe.
In 13 years, the ICTY, with 1,200 employees, spent roughly $1.25 billion to convict only a few dozen war criminals.
There are roughly 200 million unemployed people worldwide, including nearly 75 million young people.
Since the introduction of multidrug therapy in the early 1980’s, roughly 16 million people around the world have been cured.
As of 2016, roughly half of all HIV-positive individuals are on ARV treatment, far short of the 90% target.
Roughly 80% of Sudan’s oil production of 490,000 barrels per day is concentrated in South Sudan.
In 2010, China imported almost half of this output, roughly 250,000 barrels per day, which accounts for about 5% of China’s oil imports.
A few years ago, countries like Spain and Portugal were running large current-account deficits and needed capital inflows totaling roughly 10% of their GDP.
The human capital for rapid economic growth is there (roughly 2,000 Palestinians graduate every year with technical skills, yet only 30% of them find a way to use such skills in a paying job), as is the will and the investment capital; but the necessary infrastructure is lacking.
The concept behind this vision is that the size and population density of a future Palestine will be roughly the same as in extended urban regions like the San Francisco Bay area or greater Cairo.
As the region moved from hard exchange-rate pegs to floating rates, Asian currencies plunged – with drops against the dollar ranging from 28% in South Korea and roughly 37% in Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines to almost 80% in Indonesia.
Roughly half as many learn French, a quarter German and an eighth Spanish, and these numbers are falling, despite the Commission’s efforts, because people tend to choose the foreign language that they believe is spoken and studied the most by others.
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