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For example, the Bank of England’s Andrew Haldane estimates that the global financial crisis cost roughly a year’s worth of global GDP, harming many people who had no say over how financial markets operate.
And its export lobby is fighting fiercely to keep the exchange rate roughly where it is relative to the dollar.
This brings us to the $200 trillion question (roughly the value of global money and asset markets, including housing): What could cause macroeconomic volatility to start rising?
There are also roughly 100 Institutes of Islamic Studies, for undergraduates who want to focus on Islamic studies only.
Since 2004 or so, total fixed-asset investment reported by the NBS has consistently been much higher than gross fixed-capital formation (which constitutes roughly 98% of total capital formation).
Moreover, it is a pattern that has closed the gap (now roughly 40%) between per capita income in America’s poorest and richest states, as labor and capital continually adjust by moving to areas where productivity is higher.
The current account is roughly in balance, so there is no need for further import compression.
Roughly two-thirds of these countries have had dramatic housing booms since 2000, most of which appear to be continuing, at least for the time being.
What Myanmar needs now is an equitable, federalist system that accommodates its many ethnic minorities, who comprise roughly a third of the population, but cover half of the total land area.
Foreigners now hold roughly half of all US federal government debt, and they are willing to hold it when it yields a very low return in dollars (and even when the dollar depreciates).
Every year, roughly 60 million girls are sexually assaulted at or on their way to school.
The United States is a bad example: only 692 refugees have been accepted since the invasion – roughly the number of Iraqis who are killed every week.
And, in the United States, roughly half of bachelor’s degree-holders under the age of 25 were jobless or underemployed upon graduation last year.
And, while calculating the size of the financial sector is extremely difficult due to its opaqueness and complexity, official US statistics indicate that financial firms accounted for roughly one-third of American corporate profits in 2006.
But the Land Matrix Partnership report found that this is not the case: roughly 45% of the purchases involved existing croplands, and almost a third of the purchased land was forested, indicating that its development may pose risks for biodiversity.
The new government implemented an effective and very big program to close a budget deficit of roughly 12% of GDP.
We were there, and visited eight urban and rural polling places, talked with roughly a hundred voters, election officials and observers, as well as officials from six parties.
Hernando de Soto, a member of our Commission, estimates that roughly $9.3 trillion in land value--largely in the hands of the poor--lies unexploited as collateral to spur investment and growth;Companies now tapping the huge consumer demand represented by the poor in developing countries are reaping big returns.
But such reforms take time: German Chancellor Angela Merkel appears to have forgotten that it took more than a decade and roughly €2 trillion ($2.5 trillion) in subsidies for structural reforms to make the former East Germany competitive with the rest of the country.
The economic damage resulting from environmental degradation is estimated to be roughly $7 trillion a year, much of it irreversible.
The size of the original four BRICs economies, taken together, is roughly consistent with the projections I made all those years ago.
India continues along roughly the same path it was on 15 years ago.
There is thus almost no chance of a quick return to what used to be considered “normal” monetary conditions – for example, of US short-term interest rates rising to their pre-crisis average of inflation plus roughly 2%.
Today, one-quarter of the world’s population still lives on the equivalent of less than one US dollar a day, and the World Bank says that the daily spending power of 1.2 billion people is roughly equal to the price of a hamburger, two soft drinks, or three candy bars in the West.
In Saudi Arabia, foreign nationals account for roughly one-third of the population.
An unprecedentedly weak economic recovery – roughly 2% annual growth over the past nine-plus years, versus a 4% norm in earlier cycles – says otherwise.
Abusive transfer pricing – in which legally related entities misprice goods or services – accounts for roughly 60% of the continent’s illicit capital flight, according to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.
In the late 1800’s, roughly three-quarters of all workers in the US were employed in agriculture.
The reasoning is roughly as follows: as labor-saving technologies improve, some workers lose their jobs in the short run, but production becomes more efficient.
At that price, the dollar was undervalued by roughly 10% relative to its purchasing power parity (PPP).
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