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Of the roughly $200 trillion in global financial assets today, almost three-quarters are in some kind of debt instrument, including bank loans, corporate bonds, and government securities.
For example, we now have a super-size International Monetary Fund, whose lending capacity has been tripled, to roughly $750 billion.
This program already covers roughly 2.3 million poor families, providing them with yet another key to social mobility.
Our diplomacy is also focused on protecting the well-being of the roughly ten million Filipinos working overseas.
Unemployment in Austria and Germany stands at roughly 5%, while, in Spain and Greece, the jobless rate exceeds 25%.
It arrived suddenly in 2008, and, after roughly 18 months, vanished almost as quickly as it had come.
While the US is expected to grow by 3.3% this year and by 2.9% next year – roughly the long-term average for the past 30 years, this cannot be called a self-sustained upswing, given that the fiscal deficit is expected to reach a breathtaking 11% of GDP this year, before easing to a still-high 8.2% in 2011.
While the US no longer suffers from rising unemployment, the current 9.5% jobless rate is very high for the US, roughly double its level before the recession.
Today, roughly half of all revenue goes to fund the inflated salaries and perks of government officials, including parliamentarians, governors, local and national bureaucrats, and endless legions of administrators.
This is roughly the system that is in place in the United Arab Emirates, where millions of foreign-born workers voluntarily pursue employment.
Roughly $300 billion in infrastructure investment in these areas is required across the economy, half of which would need to be in large cities, which will expand if Myanmar diversifies out of agriculture.
Under the Organic Law of the Village Committees, all of China's approximately one million villages – home to roughly 600 million voters – hold local elections every three years.
Eastern Europe’s Ostrich Policy on HIVCARDIFF, CALIFORNIA – Russia and Ukraine account for roughly 90% of the 1.5 million people estimated to be infected with HIV in Central and Eastern Europe.
Roughly half of the urban labor force in Bosnia is on the payroll of international organizations and NGOs, and the other half is unemployed.
From 1990 to the peak year, around 2004, annual malaria deaths rose from roughly 800,000 to 1.6 million.
The UN Millennium Project synthesized the counsel of roughly 250 global experts on crucial development issues.
In both booms, roughly 90% of respondents in the US expected an increase in home prices over the next several years, with large expected increases over the next 12 months, surpassing 15% in San Francisco in 2003.
But German, French, Spanish, and even Greek bonds all carried roughly the same interest rate, so they were deemed equivalent.
According to Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry, which surveyed firms roughly a month after the earthquake, more than 60% of production sites in affected areas had already recovered as of April 15.
The problem for Palestinian moderates is clear: any leader willing to agree a peace treaty with Israel would be opposed - passionately and even violently - by roughly 80% of the movement.
America’s paltry 1% growth led the way, while Japan and Europe, whose combined GDP is roughly equal to that of the US in purchasing-power-parity terms, recorded no better than a 0.3% increase.
There are roughly 70 separate local aid offices and 40 international NGOs involved in providing aid to Pakistanis.
The European bill amounts to just over $100 billion – roughly half of which was paid by the top seven British banks.
(By contrast, the United States Supreme Court receives roughly 10,000 petitions a year.)
Even with unrealistically generous assumptions, the unimpressive net effect is that solar power reduces Germany’s CO2 emissions by roughly eight million metric tons – or about 1% – for the next 20 years.
The Indian diaspora in the US constitutes roughly three million people, many of whom actively participate in politics.
In Tunisia, the largest newspaper has a circulation of roughly 50,000 in a country of 10 million people.
But, according to the Bundesbank, net investment abroad (including financial investment) has already roughly matched domestic investment in recent years.
First, Ukraine demands a bilateral protocol on market access, which would force Russia to abolish roughly 100 trade sanctions, primarily in agriculture.
Roughly a third, mesmerized by the meretricious appeal of the Efficient Market Hypothesis, argued that governments were the original sinners.
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