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The
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5% starts at an income of $142,000 while the bottom 20% peaks at $17,000, a ratio of 8/3, which is a big jump from the ratio of 6/3 of 30 years ago.
London is the only city in the United Kingdom that ranks in the world’s
top
50.
With popular destinations like the United States and Canada cutting back on research and public education and facing the need to raise
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tax rates, Europe has a unique opportunity to attract skilled migrants and reduce the exodus of European researchers.
Unless and until China’s
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leaders overcome such resistance, progress on reform will remain sluggish.
Even as the Bush administration was spinning the notion that the torture of prisoners was the work of “a few bad apples” low in the military hierarchy, I knew that we were seeing evidence of a systemic policy set at the
top.
Last month, an eminent panel of four
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economists – three leading Bangladeshi scholars and a Nobel laureate in economics – met in Dhaka to examine the results.
At the
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of their list of priorities was treatment of tuberculosis, which kills about 80,000 Bangladeshis annually – one in every 11 deaths in the country.
In addition to €130 billion in loans (more than 40% of Greek GDP, on
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of the €110 billion loaned to Greece in 2010), a 50% “haircut” has been imposed on Greece’s private creditors, and the European Central Bank has waived expected returns on its holdings of Greek bonds.
All of this might seem over the
top
and childish.
Consider this: only 11% of the Fortune 500 companies from 1955 still exist today, while the average time that companies stay in the
top
500 has fallen from 75 years to 15 years.
To avoid this fate, governments must focus on what really matters: how to be like the 11% of companies that have remained, through the decades, in the
top
500.
True, China cannot entirely overlook US pressure and the staunch opposition of its
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oil supplier, Saudi Arabia, to Iran’s nuclear program.
A former member of the Politburo Standing Committee, the CCP’s
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decision-making body, Zhou was considered untouchable.
The eventual nominee would be wise to incorporate his opponents’ best ideas and
top
people into his campaign.
On current trend lines, Lee predicts that China “will be the
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importer and exporter of all East Asian countries” within two decades.
January marked the 20th anniversary of the North American Free Trade Agreement, the treaty that created a single market with the United States and Canada, and helped to propel Mexico into the
top
ranks of manufacturing exporters.
Even in auto manufacturing, where
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global competitors are maximizing plant productivity, 80% of companies are small, traditional shops, with fewer than ten employees.
These subcontractors provide low-cost labor to global parts makers and assemblers and have one-tenth the productivity of producers in the
top
10%.
The problem, Krishnan points out, starts at the
top.
He had, after all, risen to the
top
of the military on the back of the Pakistani army’s Islamist elements, who came into their own (in what had previously been a rather Anglophile, British- and American-trained officer corps) during the decade-long reign of a fundamentalist military ruler, General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq.
And while policymakers tell themselves that high stock prices and exports will boost average incomes, the fact is that most of the gains have already been captured by those at the very
top
of the pyramid.
Reversing the robotic gigantism of banking ought to be the
top
priority for reform.
Ruling out the connivance of
top
executives raises an alarming question: Does Jamie Dimon, J.P. Morgan’s highly regarded CEO, have as little grasp of the exposures embedded in his bank’s nearly $80 billion derivatives book as Tony Hayward, the hapless ex-CEO of BP, had of the hazards of his company’s ill-fated rig in the Gulf of Mexico?
Although leaders at a recent African Economic Conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, committed to keeping governance reforms at the
top
of Africa’s agenda, they offered no blueprint.
Since the election of President Donald Trump, the United States, which remains one of Africa’s
top
donors, has focused more on the principles China favors – like political stability, trade, and counterterrorism – than on human rights.
In 2014, publicly owned or controlled entities accounted for nearly 70% of the turnover and 85% of employment among Russia’s
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15 companies.
That competition now features new Infrastructure Project Preparation Facilities (IPPFs) to accelerate and replicate large PPPs with a disturbing reliance on big dams and fossil-fuel infrastructure, such as Nigeria’s gas-supply pipeline to the European Union – a
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priority of PIDA that implies slow progress toward a low-carbon future.
Diplomacy at the
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of the WorldWASHINGTON, DC – Geopolitical tensions between Russia and the West have been high in recent years, but there remain areas where constructive cooperation and dialogue remain possible.
Kyoto was also considered, but a
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American official, Secretary of War Henry Stimson, had visited that city during his honeymoon and objected to the destruction of the city’s cultural treasures.
Contrary to the implications of the Meltzer-Richard framework, ordinary American voters do not seem to be very interested in raising
top
marginal tax rates or in greater social transfers.
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