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And, according to the World Economic Forum, is topped only by the U.S. and China in an index that combines growth prospects with economic size.
But disparity and discontent are rising, driven in part by food-price inflation, which recently topped 20% year on year.
Global unemployment has topped 212 million, according to the International Labor Organization, and another 42 million new jobs will need to be created each year if the world economy is to provide employment to the growing number of new entrants into the labor market.
Politicians on the left have long urged moving to a Sixth Republic, a goal that topped the manifestos of both Hamon and the far-left presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
Over the past five years, foreign direct investment in the new member states topped the €100 billion mark.
If losses arise, they must be covered by the initial cash contribution of €80 billion ($100 billion), which then would be topped up automatically by all participating countries according to their capital shares.
In recent years, countries around the world have accumulated very large volumes of foreign exchange, topped by China with more than $2 trillion, but including hundreds of billions of dollars held by Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, India, and the oil-producing countries.
Brazil's severe summer market jitters, during which the country's risk index suddenly topped Nigeria's and short term credits for international trade dried up, began to change the face of the election.
On government efficiency, the report claims that Italy is doing worse than all countries except Venezuela – much worse than Burundi or even Syria – in a ranking topped by Singapore and, more surprisingly, Rwanda.
The number of Syrian refugees outside the country topped five million last week.
In November 2013, monthly job openings topped four million for the first time since 2008.
Gore’s scientific advisor, Jim Hansen from NASA, has even topped his protégé.
The Netherlands topped our list, followed by Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, Japan, and Austria.
In 2015, the surplus from trade with the UK topped €50 billion ($57 billion), with German exports totaling roughly €89 billion, or 3% of German GDP.
And 2% of assets under management is an annual fee that many sophisticated investors have been willing to pay private hedge funds – topped off with an extra fee of 20% of annual profits, which the Treasury is not paying.
But the social costs, reflected in veteran suicides (which have topped 18 per day in recent years) and family breakups, are incalculable.
Back then, Japanese real GDP growth topped 6%.
PRINCETON – The election result in Italy, where populists and far-right parties topped the polls, following the twin disasters of Brexit in the United Kingdom and Donald Trump’s election in the United States, seems certain to harden a common liberal belief: the people brought these calamities on themselves.
Last year, America’s entire military and counterterrorism expenditures topped $600 billion.
While a few energy-exporting countries in the Middle East and elsewhere reap huge profits, the rest of the world is suffering as the price of oil has topped $110 per barrel and that of coal has doubled.
But, full of elegance and charm, and treating social problems with good sense and energy, she has topped public opinion polls for over a year.
A decade ago, defense of Russia’s territorial integrity and restoration of governability topped the list of priorities.
In 2013, the combined profits of just four majors – Chevron, ExxonMobil, BP, and Shell – topped $94 billion.
American and British universities have long topped world rankings, and regard themselves as global institutions with a global responsibility.
Bilateral trade topped $100 billion in 2003, as Japan's exports to China increased by more than 10%, fuelled by semiconductors, electrical equipment, and automobiles.
But this was now politically feasible, because aid topped up the public coffers, reducing the depth of the necessary cuts and the associated pain and suffering.
These countries’ foreign reserves, mainly held in US securities, topped $8 trillion at their peak last year.
Foundations and corporations topped this up to a total of $335 billion, or about 2% of gross national income.
The country topped the US in auto production in 2009, and remains second only to South Korea in shipbuilding, with 36% of global capacity.
The list of urgent concerns is topped by global warming, but also includes terrorism, pesticides, and the loss of biodiversity – and seems to have virtually no end.
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