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China Going ForwardBEIJING – China’s per capita income, at $3,800, has now surpassed the threshold for a middle-income country.
Oil prices are plummeting;Russia’s finance minister estimates that the country’s losses since last spring have surpassed $140 billion.
Desktop-based chess programs have considerably surpassed the best human players over the past decade, and cheating has become a growing scourge.
According to The Financial Times, Chinese lending in 2008-2010 surpassed World Bank assistance by approximately $10 billion.
Paris may be even worse off; in March, after air-pollution levels surpassed Shanghai’s, the city imposed a partial driving ban and introduced free public transportation.
In terms of exports, they did almost as well as, and in some respects even surpassed, the Chinese.
Once grown and harvested, the rice kernel is processed to extract and purify the proteins for use in oral rehydration solution for treating diarrhea, which is surpassed only by respiratory diseases as the leading infectious killer of children under the age of five in developing countries.
One might question why GDP in China, where per capita income recently surpassed $7,000, is set to grow so much more slowly than Japan’s did from 1956 to 1970, when the Japanese economy, with per capita income starting from about $7,000, averaged 9.7% annual growth.
Tsinghua and Peking universities together recently surpassed Berkeley as the top sources of students who go on to earn American PhDs.
In her devastating new book Mao: The Unknown Story , Jung Chang (author of the international bestseller Wild Swans ) exposes startling new details that prove beyond doubt that Mao was a tyrannical, cruel hypocrite whose disregard for human lives and suffering surpassed that of even Stalin and Hitler.
With the support of an IMF program, the new government continued the reforms initiated by its predecessor, and the program’s success surpassed all expectations.
China soon surpassed the US in other important measures.
When World War I began, Germany had surpassed Britain in 1900, and British fear of German intentions contributed to the disaster.
The pipeline for infrastructure projects in emerging markets is estimated to have surpassed $1 trillion – $150 billion of which is expected to be raised from private sources.
Although China surpassed Japan as the world’s second-largest economy two years ago, Japan is a comfortable society with a much higher per capita income.
New York surpassed London as a source of trade finance by the mid-1920’s.
Solar power also surpassed nuclear in terms of new energy produced, providing an extra 17.43 terawatt-hours last year, compared to 14.70 terawatt-hours from nuclear sources.
The official registration of ten parties, including opposition groups, surpassed any previous election, and the OSCE admitted that voters had "a real choice."
In the second quarter of this year, US GDP growth surpassed 4%, a rate that seems astronomical from a European perspective.
In 2010, China’s economy surpassed Japan’s in total size, though it is only one-sixth the size in per capita terms.
Only two decades ago, many Americans feared being overtaken after Japanese per capita income surpassed that of the United States.
Moreover, as Chinese officials and researchers have acknowledged, though China surpassed Germany in 2009 as the world’s largest exporter by volume, it has yet to develop into a truly “strong” trading country, owing to lackluster trade in services and low value-added production.
Germany had surpassed Britain in industrial production by 1900.
In the Soviet Union, they helped Vladimir Lenin consolidate power, with disastrous consequences that were surpassed only by the horrors of Nazism, which also came to power on a populist wave.
LONDON – After less than a year and a half in which so much energy news seemed troubling – nuclear meltdowns, oil spills, rising gas prices – it might be startling to find out that worldwide installed capacity of renewable energy has now surpassed that of nuclear power.
China has already surpassed the US to lead the world in installed clean-energy capacity.
The complexity of the situation in Syria has far surpassed the world’s capacity to master it.
Japan has already surpassed the US as one of India’s largest sources of foreign direct investment, accounting for inflows totaling $2.2 billion last year.
But the historical rule of thumb is that the chances of a fast, hard landing have now surpassed 25%, and continue to climb.
The Ethanol HungerWEST LAFAYETTE, INDIANA – Food prices have in many cases surpassed the peak levels reached in July 2008.
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