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International bankers estimate that roughly two-thirds of Chinese reserves have been invested in dollar assets.
The rest of the RePEC top 200 tend to be Caucasian men in their 60s and older – roughly three decades past the age when an economic or scientific author is generally most innovative, according to research by the economist Benjamin Jones.
As a result, from 1999 to 2009, the US share of their global operations fell by roughly 7-8 percentage points in value added, capital investment, and employment, and by about 3-4 percentage points in R&D and compensation.
Furthermore, roughly 60 nations are currently cooperating in the Proliferation Security Initiative to prevent dangerous weapons and materials from being transported to terrorists or outlaw regimes.
It has taken months to find this out, but the same thing happened in 660 other local boards: roughly 120,000 votes – 30% of the total – were never made public.
And, in the face of a recessionary crisis that turned out to be roughly twice as large as was forecast at the end of 2008, such limited action was not enough to keep the US unemployment rate below 10% – or even set it on a downward trajectory.
For those who watched the price of Bitcoin go from $13 in December 2012 to roughly $4,000 today, this year’s drop from $20,000 is no reason to panic.
The non-tradable side of any advanced economy is large (roughly two-thirds of total activity).
When the World Economic Forum was established in 1971, the global population was roughly four billion, of which 50% lived in poverty.
Today, roughly seven billion people inhabit the world, and the number living in unacceptable conditions is the same.
Even at historically low interest rates (before the US Federal Reserve raised its benchmark rate to 1.75-2% on June 14), 18% of bonds (worth roughly $104 billion) outstanding in the US energy sector were at higher risk of default.
To put the number in perspective, roughly 8% of the Italian population currently resides abroad.
London, is said to be Italy’s fifth-largest city – after Rome, Milan, Naples, and Turin – with roughly 250,000 Italians.
In the 1930’s, by contrast, roughly half of the decline in world trade was due to protectionism.
All told, humans emit roughly 30 billion tons of CO2 per year into the atmosphere, enough to change the climate sharply within a few decades.
Some poor economies will be directly damaged by the loss of the Iraq market, which accounts for roughly 40% of Vietnam's tea exports and 20% of its rice exports.
For example, beginning in the 1960s, roughly three million migrants from Turkey settled in Germany to meet the booming economy’s demand for labor, without posing any internal security threat.
If developing countries are allowed to grow, and there is no corresponding mitigation of the growth in their carbon emissions, average per capita CO2 emissions around the world will nearly double in the next 50 years, to roughly four times the safe level, regardless of what advanced countries do.
In wholesale and retail distribution, but also in financial services and in other advanced service sectors, productivity was roughly constant in Europe, while it was growing at 4-5% a year on average in the US.
The yen appreciated substantially as part of that multi-country intervention, with the real appreciation reaching roughly 50% from 1984 to 1988.
The cumulative stock of FDI has reached close to $10 trillion, making it the most important mechanism for delivery of goods and services to foreign markets: sales by foreign affiliates total roughly $19 trillion, compared to world exports of $11 trillion.
In the European Union alone, the youth unemployment rate has reached a staggering 22%, and in some countries is topping out at roughly 50%; according to some reports, 75 million young people are currently experiencing unemployment, underemployment, or stagnating wages.
The overall effective annual subsidy to US housing debt has been estimated at roughly 1% of national income.
These challenges must be addressed through stronger governance at all levels, particularly given that state authority has been badly eroded in roughly a quarter of the country, where complex factors have created distrust in the name of ethnicity, politics, and religion, resulting in a massive breakdown in law and order.
At the same time, Macron’s social policies aim to produce roughly the same level of redistribution as before.
Roughly 100,000 people lost their jobs in the area following the attacks, including many of the 50,000 who worked in the Trade Center itself.
This reflects the similarly deteriorating situation for Christians in Egypt, where they account for roughly 15% of the population.
In comparison, Greece’s fiscal gap is roughly 1,100% of its GDP, whereas its official debt is 120% of GDP.
Indeed, since the industry launched its public-relations campaign in the early 2000’s, cost estimates have increased roughly sevenfold, and profits have declined.
After several years of disappointing performance, the authorities are shifting to policies aimed at boosting the annual growth rate closer to the roughly 9% level that India achieved from 2004 to 2008.
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