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It is a staggering task.
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.
Indeed, adding up all these losses in financial markets, the sum will hit a staggering $1 trillion.
According to the World Bank, Africa must spend a staggering $93 billion annually to upgrade its current infrastructure; the vast majority of these funds – some 87% – are needed for improvements to basic services like energy, water, sanitation, and transportation.
These staggering numbers present an awesome responsibility for our citizens and our governments alike.
In terms of population and geography, Saudi Arabia is one of the largest Arab countries, and its staggering oil wealth has made it an indispensable strategic partner for the West, and particularly for the US.
Unemployment remains at a staggering 11.6% in the eurozone as a whole, compared to 10% in the United States at the worst of America’s Great Recession.
China’s leaders must devote their attention to a staggering array of pressing problems at home: averting an economic slowdown that could push millions out of work and into the streets, the fallout from rural land reform, and efforts to manage enormous environmental and public health problems.
The scale of today’s refugee crisis is staggering: worldwide, an unprecedented 65 million people have been forced to flee from their homes; and, in 2016 alone, over 7,500 migrants – men, women, and children – died while desperately trying to reach safety, of which 5,083 perished in the Mediterranean Sea.
The problem, of course, is that no country can be productive enough to reinvest 50% of GDP in new capital stock without eventually facing immense overcapacity and a staggering non-performing loan problem.
As it stands, despite recent emerging-market growth, the world economy is a place of staggering extremes.
Finally, Russia has a staggering demographic problem, characterized by a shrinking population, life expectancy far below the advanced-country average, and a growing brain drain.
By contrast, a more needy Louisiana (with its staggering 24% poverty rate) was denied its request for flood-mitigation funds in 2004.
This has been accompanied by staggering levels of corruption, with Cambodia ranked 160th by Transparency International, out of 175 countries.
Right now, Americans are staggering from the reality of what they themselves have done.
The figures for the US are staggering.
Adding to a possible obstruction charge was the staggering revelation on Tuesday of this week that, in mid-February, on the day after Trump fired his national security adviser, Michael Flynn, he asked Comey to call off the FBI’s investigation of Flynn.
China’s Green DebtFor a decade, the world has wondered when China’s leaders will recognize the staggering environmental crisis confronting their country.
In 2001, workers from low- and middle-income countries sent home a staggering $43 billion--more than double the level of a decade earlier and $5 billion more than that year's total official foreign aid to these countries.
Considering that Russia’s growth was 3.2% last year, a staggering 8.8% in the last quarter, this makes little sense.
During the last few months Russia’s international reserves have grown sharply, as one would expect of a country with a staggering trade surplus of $33 billion this year and which is likely to surge to over $40 billion this year.
The biggest disappointment seems to be that growth has failed to make a dent in Iran’s staggering levels of unemployment.
The Internet and the financial sector continue to spawn new multi-millionaires and even billionaires at a staggering pace.
China’s staggering $1.5 trillion expansion in 2017 means that, in nominal terms, it essentially created a new economy the size of South Korea, twice the size of Switzerland, and three times the size of Sweden.
Italy cannot build on an export-driven growth model, and it is staggering under the massive debt burden inherited from Berlusconi.
The impact of all of this on the national debt and on Japan’s interest rates could be staggering.
Yet, by 2007, China’s household savings rate had risen to a staggering 30%, compared to just 2.5% in the US.
In June 2014, a staggering 1,193 Moroccans were reportedly fighting in Syria and Iraq, according to the General Director of Studies and Documentation (DGED) Mohamed Yassine El Mansouri.
Over the last five years, the wealth of those richest 62 people on the planet has increased by a staggering $542 billion, or 44%, while the poorest 3.6 billion people have lost over a trillion dollars, or 41% of their wealth.
That number is a revealing indication of the staggering costs that can arise when science is rejected or ignored.
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