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As a result, Nigeria will soon surpass South Africa to become Africa’s largest economy.
Yet, in the fourth quarter, growth was down to 2.6%, and initial estimates suggest that overall growth for the year will not surpass 2.3%.
In Mumbai, for example, enrollment rates surpass 95%, but only a small fraction of students graduate.
Moreover, with a population of 1.2 billion people, India is four times larger than the US, and likely to surpass China by 2025.
By 2050, the global population will surpass nine billion.
But if the proposals discussed in Beijing last month are realized, the resulting FTA could surpass NAFTA in its degree of integration and importance to the world economy.
And with that data, the algorithm develops sophisticated models of productivity that far surpass our commonsense intuitions.
Singapore’s former leader, Lee Kwan Yew, an astute observer of both the US and China, argues that China will not surpass the US as the leading power of the twenty-first century, precisely because the US attracts the best and brightest from the rest of the world and melds them into a diverse culture of creativity.
It is projected to surpass 19 million by 2025.
But with growth in China's coastal region running at possibly 15% per year, who can seriously doubt that in 15 years it will surpass Brazil?
The budget deficit will surpass $1 trillion this year, and, with growth already above its potential rate and unemployment well below its natural rate, the cyclical argument for such stimulus is weak.
In size, scope, and fame, the wall will surpass the Hoover Dam and Mount Rushmore.
Is the US still the world’s largest economy, or did China surpass it in 2014?
The UK population is projected to surpass 70 million before the end of the next decade, an increase of 3.6 million, or 5.5%, owing to net immigration and a surplus of births over deaths among the newcomers.
China, too, is wary of India, which will soon surpass it in population size and is emerging as an economic and strategic competitor – one with which it shares a disputed border.
East Asia as a whole will surpass the US in terms of aggregate GDP by 2015, with China contributing the highest proportion of the total.
The next wave of NATO expansion promises to lap onto Russia's border and indeed surpass the old Soviet borders by taking in the Baltic states.
While you were dreaming of real-estate riches, the United States and Europe were hit by the most crippling financial crisis in almost 80 years, and China’s statist economy swiftly overtook Germany and Japan to become the world’s second largest (and, despite its recent slowdown, is poised to surpass the US).
In Singapore, I quoted Lee Kuan Yew’s response to a question I once asked him about whether China would surpass the US.
One senior Asian statesman, an acute long-time observer of both the US and China, concludes that China will not surpass the US as the leading power of the twenty-first century because of America’s ability to attract the best and brightest from the rest of the world and meld them into a diverse culture of creativity.
If we regard human rights as something possessed by all human beings, no matter how limited their intellectual or emotional capacities may be, how can we deny similar rights to great apes, who clearly surpass some human beings in their rationality, self-awareness, and emotional bonds with others?
By 2017, India could surpass Italy and Brazil to become the world's seventh largest economy; by 2020, there is a reasonable chance that it will overtake France and the United Kingdom to become the fifth largest.
China’s Questionable Economic PowerTOKYO – The World Bank recently announced that China’s economy will surpass that of the United States this year, measured according to purchasing power parity (PPP).
Economic growth will bring China closer to the US in power resources, but that doesn't necessarily mean that China will surpass the US as the most powerful country.
Still, Lee Kuan Yew is probably right to say that China “will give the US a run for its money,” but not surpass it in overall power in the first half of this century.
And by 2030, investments in new gas projects across G20 countries are expected to surpass $1.6 trillion.
Both are surely aware that China’s surging exports last year helped it surpass the US as Europe’s largest foreign supplier.
The United Nations estimates that the continent will account for more than 40% of global population growth through 2030, with the working-age population expected to surpass that of China by 2040.
Moreover, the failure of developed countries – particularly, the US – to take responsibility for their historical emissions of greenhouse gases continues, representing a major sticking point because these emissions far surpass those of the developing world.
And the Macri government has created a plan to attract $12 billion per year in fossil-fuel investments, predicting that revenues from oil and gas exports will surpass those from agriculture – currently Argentina’s leading export sector – by 2027.
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