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Each taka of spending stands to do more than 600 takas of good.
Bilateral trade stands at about $40 billion a year, and China is not only Iran’s largest customer for crude oil, but also a colossal investor – somewhere between $40 billion and $100 billion – in Iran’s energy and transport sectors.
Whatever success the SPD has had playing the coalition game, the party’s participation in yet another Merkel-led government stands to cost it growing numbers of lower- and middle-income voters.
Meanwhile, bilateral trade between the two countries stands at over $100 billion annually; and the Indian diaspora has gained unprecedented influence in Washington.
Indeed, in a world that has grown nervous about emerging economies, Mexico stands out as an island of opportunity, with a stable fiscal position and the prospect of rising demand for its goods as the US recovery gathers momentum.
Re-Thinking Homegrown TerrorismBERLIN – Homegrown terrorism stands high on the security agenda almost everywhere in Europe.
As it stands, no single power – not even the US – can offset China’s power and influence on its own.
Just look at who stands behind the most important newspapers and TV stations in Russia.
As it stands, the US-South Korea relationship operates on the basis of something like the North Atlantic Treaty’s collective-defense clause, Article 5: any North Korean aggression against South Korea will, it is assured, be met by the combined forces of South Korea and the US.
But, even without the agreement, the appeal of such investments stands: evidence indicates that integration of ESG considerations – when implemented intelligently and measured and reported transparently – could help investments outperform expectations, for both companies and investors.
On this International Day of the Girl, Aishetu stands as proof of the difference that education can make for girls and the people around them.
Consider one appalling statistic: The number of girls not attending school, despite having fallen by 40% since 2000, still stands at 130 million.
With a trade surplus of $190 billion and the income from its nearly $3 trillion portfolio of foreign assets, China’s external surplus stands at $316 billion, or 6.1% of annual GDP.
As it stands, that basket includes the US dollar, the British pound, the euro, and the Japanese yen.
As it stands, China’s economy follows, to some extent, the old Leninist “commanding heights” model, with the Party holding all political power and controlling major enterprises and sectors, even as the burgeoning private sector drives growth and employment.
As it stands, the US sells mainly defensive weapons systems to India, while Russia, for example, offers India offensive weapons, including strategic bombers, an aircraft carrier, and a lease on a nuclear submarine.
The lingering empathy for France and Germany born of the Cold War alliance stands in stark contrast to the American foreign policy community's wariness toward post-Soviet Russia.
The US stands to benefit as much as Mexico if conditions south of the border begin breaking good.
One obvious option, which Democrats largely seem to be taking, is to reject Trump and everything his administration stands for.
And, as it stands, no third parties or candidates provide reasonable alternatives.
As it stands, there is no shortage of resistance to freedom-oriented reform and pressure to pursue statist policies.
In reviewing these efforts, one constant stands out: the US has made the most progress on issues where Russia has felt that America respected its interests.
In Japan, as long as most of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party stands firm in supporting the TPP, it should be ratified.
Thus, as it stands today, EMU could be compared to a pressure cooker without any relief valve built in.
If central banks are unable to increase inflation, it stands to reason that they may not have been instrumental in reducing it.
In the United Kingdom, that figure stands at 10%.
The US stands as the supreme example of this: a country that devotes $450 billion per year to military spending allocates only $12 billion per year to development assistance for poor countries.
Likewise, Greece can now manage its public-debt burden, which stands at about 175% of GDP, thanks to the ultra-low interest rates and long maturities (longer than those on Japan’s debt) granted by its European partners.
Of course, multilateral trade negotiations are only one of three legs on which the World Trade Organization stands.
This view stands in stark contrast to the traditional view that there is a tradeoff between equality and growth, and that greater inequality is a price that must be paid for higher output.
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