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Meanwhile, the entitlement programs that Republicans denounce, such as unemployment benefits, school lunches, and food stamps, amount to less than one-third this amount – roughly $600 billion – even after four years of record-high unemployment.
Now the country has more than half of the world’s roughly 50,000 large dams, defined as having a height of at least 15 meters, or a storage capacity of more than three million cubic meters.
Could the US ignore a country that in roughly ten years will become the world’s second-largest oil exporter, generating more than $200 billion annually in revenue, while increasingly being dominated by an authoritarian Shia regime that is close to Iran?Would it withdraw in the face of the consequent strategic threat to its three allies – Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Israel – in the region?
Even Afghan expatriates in the Gulf states, who have invested roughly $5 billion in regional and global trading networks, are reluctant to invest in their homeland.
Developing countries are home to roughly 90% of the world’s population, and some two-thirds of their residents are younger than 25.
The UK’s Overseas Development Institute predicts that by 2025, roughly 80% of the world’s poor will live in fragile states.
Proclaiming six meters of sea-level rise over this century contradicts thousands of UN scientists, and requires the sea-level rise to accelerate roughly 40-fold from today.
The rush towards bio-fuels has also strongly contributed to rising food prices, which have tipped another roughly 30 million people into starvation.
Services like education, banking, accounting, and insurance account for an ever larger share of global output (now roughly two-thirds), and further expansion requires significant changes in existing agreements.
Until the crisis of 2008, middle- and lower-income job growth occurred entirely in the non-tradable sector of the economy, which accounts for roughly two-thirds of advanced countries’ output and employment.
In terms of its approach to peace, the new Central Committee is roughly the same as the old one.
Fortunately, Meetup allows me to sit at a desk amid its roughly 90 people;I travel a lot, but I work from a desk at Meetup whenever I am at “home” in New York City.
A safe schools initiative has been established to rebuild the girls’ own school in Chibok and to make the roughly 5,000 schools in northern Nigerian safe from terrorist attacks.
In the 2000 parliamentary elections, while Mubarak’s ruling party received roughly 38% of the popular vote in districts supervised by true judges, that percent somehow jumped to 86% where the quasi-judges were in charge.
As a result, American companies now hold abroad roughly $2 trillion in profits that have never been subject to US tax.
The average of the major energy models indicates that, downscaled for the UK, achieving the 20% target would imply a total cost of roughly £95 billion over the coming decade, and £18 billion every year after that.
Net jobs loss was kept roughly at zero only because employment in services increased.
The meltdown of a 500-megawatt reactor located 30 miles from a city would cause the immediate death of an estimated 45,000 people, injure roughly another 70,000, and cause $17 billion in property damage.
With roughly 40% of that increase attributable to exports, that means the remainder of the economy has grown at an anemic 1.4% pace.
In 2015, the surplus from trade with the UK topped €50 billion ($57 billion), with German exports totaling roughly €89 billion, or 3% of German GDP.
Currently, the EU contains a bloc of countries – the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and the Scandinavian and Baltic countries – with favorable views on free trade – that controls roughly 32% of the votes in the European Council.
The current imbalance in US spending on global education and military-related programs is staggering: $1 billion per year on the former, and roughly $900 billion on the latter.
Although the government’s stimulus policies have increased the national debt, the debt/GDP ratio remains relatively low, at roughly 37%.
Prior to the current crisis, US government revenue was roughly 60% federal and 40% state and local.
France was the most centralized of the major economies, with roughly a 80%-20% split between the national and sub-national governments, while the United Kingdom falls in between, at 75%-25%.
In the US, tertiary education accounts for over 2.5% of GDP (roughly $500 billion), and yet much of this is spent quite inefficiently.
In the year 2000, Americans made private donations for foreign aid of all kinds totaling about $4 per person, or roughly $20 per family.
The existing international system, fashioned for the world of the mid-twentieth century, is not relevant to the new global agenda, and the emerging re-distribution of power roughly from West to East is unlikely to permit any new global order to be managed by a US-European condominium.
For example, the EU has roughly 100 operators in the telecoms sector; the US has just five, and China has only three.
And state-controlled firms’ share of global mining production is already roughly one-quarter – and rising.
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