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The city had already captured the world’s attention when it erected a six-foot-high wall to isolate a particularly poor Romani community of roughly 2,000 people from its neighbors, effectively creating a ghetto.
Likewise, unemployment was roughly the same on both sides of the Atlantic in 2009-2010, but it is now almost four percentage points lower in the US.
Roughly 16% of total energy needs (up to 25% in the highly industrialized countries) are now met by electric energy.
During the next five years, on average, roughly 10 new nuclear reactors are expected to become operational every year.
The supply from these sources will drop by roughly 10,000 tons at the end of 2013, when the Megatons to Megawatt Program between Russia and the United States – which recycles highly-enriched uranium from Russian nuclear warheads into low-enriched uranium for nuclear power plants – comes to an end.
So far, uranium mining in Kazakhstan has increased roughly as expected, from 4,357 tons in 2005 to 8,521 tons in 2008 to 14,000 tons in 2009.
According to the agency’s forecast, uranium demand in Europe will fall from 21,747 tons in 2010 to 17,378 tons by 2018 and roughly 16,000 tons by 2024.
According to World Bank data, 32% of Argentina's exports are manufactured goods, with roughly one-quarter classified as high-technology products.
In the Nordic countries, by contrast, the poorest 20% of households receive nearly 10% of total income, putting them at roughly one-half of the national average.
Exports of natural resources, like iron and coal, account for roughly 20% of Australia’s GDP and dominate its economic relationship with China.
But Foshan is in a reasonably strong position to manage its local-government debt, because its fixed-capital investments since 2004 have amounted to roughly 30% of GDP, compared to 70% for some other local governments.
Achieving it is an understandable priority for the US, but South Korea must worry as much, if not more, about North Korea’s non-nuclear or conventional military forces that threaten Seoul, home to roughly 20% of South Koreans.
The troubling fact about the Great Depression is that it was severe, global, and lasted over a decade – and that it followed the collapse of an equity and real-estate boom, roughly as happened before the current crisis.
The total value of assets held by the US Federal Reserve, for example, has ballooned from 7% of GDP in 2007 to roughly 20% of GDP today.
The four major central banks – the Fed, the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan, and the Bank of England – have accumulated roughly $5 trillion of additional assets in the last five years, bringing their total to $9.5 trillion.
According to the International Monetary Fund’s April 2012 fiscal monitor report, the seigniorage levied by developed-country governments surged from about 1% of GDP in 2005-2007 to roughly 8% of GDP in 2008-2011, an increase of about $2.7 trillion.
In fact, QE has driven developing countries to expand their foreign-exchange reserves by roughly $2.8 trillion since 2008, as the added liquidity that the policy has generated has moved to developing countries through trade and capital flows.
The Khan Academy, Google, Apple, and roughly 50 other companies have recognized this need, providing some $70 million in funding, low-cost tablets, online education programs, and assistance with logistics.
Another source of domestic resources is the roughly $380 billion in pension assets held by just ten African countries.
Investors from the EU-15 committed €37.2 billion in central and eastern Europe in 2006, roughly double the €19.1 billion spent there in 2004.
What is less known is that the high seas – the areas of the world’s oceans that lie beyond the limits of national jurisdiction, which extend 200 miles from shore – make up roughly two-thirds of our oceans and 45% of the planet’s surface.
Already, spillover effects from trade and financial transmission channels are beginning to take their toll: China’s GDP growth rate in the second quarter of 2012 averaged 7.6%, reflecting a significant slowdown, and India’s growth rate is expected to decline to roughly 6% this year.
Almost 30,000 people protested in Moscow against the Kremlin’s demolition of the so-called khrushchevki, the roughly 8,000 five-story apartment blocks constructed in Moscow under my grandfather Nikita Khrushchev’s leadership in the 1950s.
The tax rate required to fund social-welfare benefits depends on three factors: the dependency ratio (the ratio of recipients to taxpayers); the replacement rate (the ratio of benefits to average wages); and the economic-growth rate (roughly, productivity plus population growth).
The United States seems to reel from one mass gun killing to another – roughly one a month this year alone.
The US homicide rate is roughly four times that of comparable societies in Western Europe, and Latin America’s homicide rates are even higher than in the US (and dramatically higher than Asian countries at roughly the same income level).
Income in the US and euro-area both appear to have declined at an annualized rate of roughly 6% in the fourth quarter of 2008;Japan’s GDP fell at perhaps twice that rate.
But, once risk weights are removed, assets balloon to €8.1 trillion (roughly 400% of GDP), and the equity-to-asset ratio plummets to 2%.
But, in Brazil, lending by state-owned banks has outpaced that of private banks significantly since 2008, meaning that lending at deeply subsidized rates has largely driven the increase in bank credit, to 58% of GDP (roughly double the rate eight years ago).
It was the tsunami, caused by the largest earthquake ever to strike Japan, that killed more than 16,000 people, destroyed or damaged roughly 125,000 buildings, and left the country facing what its prime minister described as its biggest crisis since World War II.
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