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And yet, despite everything, India’s economy did record roughly 9% growth for several years, and even now is growing by nearly 6% annually, behind only China and Indonesia among major economies.
Unlike many other African states, Somalis had roughly the same linguistic and ethnic background.
There are now more than 3.3 billion subscribers in the world, roughly one for every two people on the planet.
Brazil now has more than 130 million subscribers, and Indonesia has roughly 120 million.
Greece’s companies fall roughly into two categories.
With budget deficits that are projected to be 5% of GDP by the end of the coming decade, and a debt/GDP ratio that has roughly doubled in the past five years and is continuing to grow, the real interest rate on Treasuries should be significantly higher than it was in the past.
Lebanon, a country of just 4.5 million people, has taken in an estimated 1,116,000 refugees – roughly equivalent to the population of Brussels.
According to current projections, this would bring the proportion of adult life in retirement back to around one-third; roughly where it was in the 1980’s.
During the “Scramble for Africa” (which lasted from roughly the late 1860s until 1905), European powers signed hundreds of bilateral and multilateral agreements that partitioned the largely unexplored continent into protectorates, free-trade areas, and colonies.
And the list goes on, affecting around 400-500 million Africans (roughly 40% of the continent’s total population).
Since the early 1960s, roughly one-third of such groups have participated in an ethnic-based civil war; only about one-fifth of non-partitioned ethnic groups have engaged in such conflicts.
According to the most recent United Nations figures, 400,000 people, or roughly one-third of Mogadishu’s population, have fled the city.
Finally, under the 1987 Brady plan, debts were written down by roughly 30%, four years after the crisis hit full throttle.
Including interest payments on past deficits, the tab for 2006 alone was over $800 billion dollars – roughly 6.5% of US gross national product.
Counting capital gains, Americans have profited to the tune of $300 billion to $400 billion annually in many recent years – an amount roughly equivalent to the entire US military budget.
Despite privatization, there are roughly 119,000 state-owned enterprises today, with a book value of about $4 trillion.
Manufacturing employment in the US fell in 2003 to its lowest level since 1964, but thanks to a tripling in output per worker, total manufacturing output was roughly three times larger.
Had Argentina not privatized, its budget would have been roughly in balance.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, roughly 18% of children aged 6-11 in the US are not just overweight, but obese.
Even more stunning are estimates that roughly 9% of all Americans – and a similar percentage of adults worldwide – have diabetes.
While this is not a particularly generous proportion of rich-country income (roughly one-fourth of one percent of their combined gross national products), it is a lot of money just the same.
That is roughly what Japan is doing now.
Taiwan has been a major supplier of foreign capital flowing into China, contributing twice as much as the US and accounting roughly for 20% of China's total inflows.
This year, roughly 750,000 women will graduate from Pakistan’s institutions of higher learning.
One needs hardly mention last year’s Mayan end-of-the-world carnival, which shares with the other no-show catastrophes roughly the same level of absurdity.
The three largest global health-financing institutions (the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, the GAVI Alliance, and UNITAID) will have spent more than $55 billion by 2015, with roughly $7 billion coming from innovative financing mechanisms such as vaccine bonds, the airline levy, and debt swaps.
In Africa, there are 14 million telephone lines, a figure roughly comparable to that of any of the world’s major cities.
Moreover, not only was Zhen Xiaouyu executed, but Cao Wenzhuang, who was in charge of drug registration at the SFDA, was sentenced to death for accepting roughly $300,000 in bribes from drug manufacturers.
Roughly 75% of China’s food is now produced by small, private, and un-licensed operations that are difficult to regulate.
The top executives at 14 leading financial firms received cash compensation (as salary, bonus, and/or stock options exercised) totaling roughly $2.5 billion in 2000-2008 – with five individuals alone receiving $2 billion.
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