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This contrasts with the 4% of GNP that the US spends on its military, roughly $500 billion this year.
In cattle production alone, economic losses amount to an estimated $1-1.2 billion annually, with total agricultural losses reaching roughly $4.75 billion.
Moreover, the European Central Bank pledged to protect these countries from default free of charge through its “outright monetary transactions” (OMT) scheme – that is, by promising to purchase their sovereign debt on secondary markets – which functions roughly as Eurobonds would.
From 2008 to 2016, Russia increased its military expenditures from 3.3% of GDP – which roughly corresponds to the current US level – to 5.3%, according to the authoritative Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
And while there are no public data on its presence in Eastern Ukraine, it is safe to assume that the costs there are roughly the same, in which case Russia is spending $4 billion per year – 0.3% of GDP – on these two operations alone.
That is our roughly $80 trillion of annual global income today.
Roughly half of Russia's population, primarily children, is not getting enough to eat.
Foreign owners--mostly EU-based banks--now control roughly 95% of assets in the Czech and Slovak banking sectors.
Despite its remarkable rise, China’s per capita income, at $10,057 (adjusted for purchasing power) in 2011, ranks 99th in the world – roughly one-fifth of US per capita income of $49,782.
PCE goods prices are still falling, and services prices are rising just 2.1%, roughly unchanged over the past year.
If we were willing to devote just 0.2% of global GDP (roughly $100 billion a year) to green-energy R&D, I believe that we could bring about game-changing breakthroughs not just for solar power, but also for a wide variety of other alternative-energy technologies.
As it stands, Chinese consumption and investment growth is expected to remain at roughly last year’s levels.
Given that Americans drive roughly three trillion miles annually, saving just one cent per mile implies $30 billion in annual savings.
As for the United States, plummeting gas prices – an extraordinary 25% decline in roughly one month – have increased consumer confidence and spending at a time when consumers were supposed to be in full retreat because of the housing market decline.
With a gender gap of roughly 12 million voters, Pakistan ranks last in the world for female participation in elections.
Meeting it will require overcoming one of the most intractable obstacles to marine conservation: ensuring the sustainability of biodiversity in the roughly 60% of the world’s oceans that lie beyond the jurisdiction of individual states.
Roughly 25-30% of Roma are under 15 years of age, in contrast with 10% of the majority population.
It would cut the number of uninsured roughly in half, but would still leave about 25 million people uninsured – with the threat of ruinously high medical bills deterring them from getting care.
As a sign of their support for the administration’s goals, the pharmaceutical industry and the hospital industry have together promised to reduce costs by a total of about $20 billion a year – a token amount, given government health spending of roughly $1 trillion and total health outlays of more than $2 trillion.
Moreover, there is a relatively large group of hardcore contributors: roughly 75,000 Wikipedians have made at least five contributions in any given 30-day period.
Large public corporations are less common in most developing economies than they are in developed economies; but for those firms that do regularly distribute dividends in developing economies, payouts to shareholders have been increasing, even when profitability has remained roughly the same.
Think about the critical moment of decision – when a megabank, like JP Morgan Chase (with a balance sheet of roughly $2 trillion), may be on the brink of failure.
Each day from January 1 to June 30 that the damage continues will have a roughly linear impact on economic performance in 2013, reducing the likely full-year real GDP growth rate by 0.0084% – and only if a deal is ultimately reached that would have caused no economic harm in 2013 had it been reached on November 10, 2012.
One reason why it used to take roughly 13 years for a Jesuit to reach ordination was the long indoctrination in orthodoxy required for priests who, unlike “regular clergy” (whose training lasted half that time), would be mobile and beyond the direct control of bishops.
This was clearly demonstrated on February 14, when roughly a million people assembled to commemorate the first anniversary of Rafik Hariri’s assassination.
Because roughly two-thirds of these migrants reside in developed countries, where productivity tends to be highest, they are maximizing the impact of their work, with far-reaching economic benefits.
Migrants added roughly $6.7 trillion to global GDP in 2015 – some $3 trillion more than they are projected to have produced had they stayed in their countries of origin.
This puts China’s net foreign assets at roughly $1.8 trillion.
The record of countries that move from conflict to a fragile peace through military intervention or negotiated settlements is dismal: roughly half of them revert to conflict, leading to more human tragedy and large numbers of refugees.
More interesting in view of the current situation in the eurozone is what followed roughly a half-century after Hamilton acted.
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