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And, in the second quarter of this year, the annualized interest rate on loans to small nonfinancial corporations surpassed 25%.
Total national contributions have surpassed the preliminary target of $10 billion.
In Italy, the anti-establishment, Euroskeptic Five Star Movement has surpassed the center-left Democratic Party in recent polls, with the young comprising a significant share of that support.
China is a long way from posing the kind of challenge to American preponderance that the Kaiser’s Germany posed when it surpassed Britain in the years leading up to World War I.
Since then, Hong Kong has surpassed this North European group, as have Japan (84 years), Italy (83), Spain (83), and Switzerland (83).
Meanwhile, many parts of the mainland have economically surpassed Hong Kong, which, in 1997, was China’s most advanced, modern city.
As a result, China surpassed Japan in late 2008 as the largest foreign holder of US financial assets.
More than 80 million people have joined the middle class, which for the first time has surpassed the poor as the largest segment of the region’s population.
Moreover, whereas Germany in 1914 was pressing hard on Britain’s heels (and had surpassed it in terms of industrial strength), the US remains decades ahead of China in overall military, economic, and soft-power resources.
In addition to having become the world’s industrial park, China now has more mobile phone subscribers than the combined populations of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and the number of Internet users has just surpassed that in the US.
In mid-1993, there were about 130 websites in the world; by 2000, that number had surpassed 15 million.
In fact, according to the US Energy Information Administration, China surpassed the US as the world’s largest net oil importer earlier this year.
By splitting the "reform" vote, both parties failed to win any seats in the Duma because neither surpassed the 5% electoral threshold.
Chief among these challenges is the threat posed by global warming, with China having surpassed the US as the leading producer of carbon-dioxide emissions (though not in per capita terms).
Using monthly Sampamp;P Composite data, the 38% increase from March to September was the second-largest six-month increase since 1871, surpassed only by a 71% increase from February to August 1933, during the Great Depression.
The countries that caught up with and eventually surpassed Britain, such as Germany, the United States, and Japan, all did so by building up their manufacturing industries.
The problem is not that cap and trade is an ivory-tower theory that cannot work in the real world; on the contrary, its performance surpassed expectations.
The Gini coefficient of per capita income has surpassed 50 (with 100 representing maximal inequality), putting China in the upper quartile of inequality worldwide.
Although eight countries have met or surpassed that target, the continent as a whole has not.
Despite the fact that China surpassed the US to become Japan’s largest trading partner last year, the top leaders of the two countries have not visited each other’s capitals since 2001.
There is certainly room to grow: the share of industry in developing Asia’s output surpassed the OECD average in 2010 (41% vs. 24%), but the share of services still lags by a wide margin (48% vs. 75%).
In 2010, Tsyvinski and I predicted a “70-80 scenario” in Russia in the coming years: As oil prices, which had plummeted to $40 per barrel, recovered and surpassed $70-80/barrel, Russia would return to the stagnation of the 1970’s and 1980’s.
It is has been little noticed, but in the last few years, Eastern Europe, including Russia, surpassed the US and the United Kingdom as the euro zone’s most important export markets.
This disconnect is apparent in the fact that market prices are higher today than they were in 2014, the year when China surpassed the United States to become the world’s largest economy (in terms of purchasing power parity), a development that spurred bullish expectations.
Gross enrollment rates at the primary level have surpassed 100% since the 1990’s, while secondary and tertiary enrollment rates reached 87% and 24%, respectively, in 2012.
That is why the dollar will most likely remain the dominant global currency long after the US has been surpassed.
Created in 2003, the iTunes Music Store recently surpassed its 100 millionth sale.
Its loans and grants to Africa have now surpassed those made by the World Bank.
But the agreement did not go far enough to make the state fiscally larger than the private sector in terms of the delivery of services (and only some donors met or surpassed the target).
Even more important, Germany had already surpassed Britain in industrial production by 1900, while China’s GDP (measured in dollars) currently is only three-fifths the size of the US economy.
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