Sentences with phrase «entire economy of a country»

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Only five countries in the entire world boast economies larger than that of California — the $ 2.46 trillion juggernaut that represents 14 percent of the total U.S. economy.

in Puerto Rico, we are witnessing an infectious positivity flowing from local governments in support of developing strong local startup ecosystems, which is creating benefits for entire countries, economies and societies.

US healthcare costs in 2016 averaged $ 10,345 per person, for a total of $ 3.35 trillion dollars, a full 18 percent of the entire economy, twice as much as in other industrialized countries.

If the US were to run a positive current account balance with all of the other 9 largest economies in the world, the chance of the US running large, persistent current account deficits with the entire world would be tiny cuz that'd assume huge surpluses by countries that account for ~ 1 / 3rd of world GDP.

In conclusion, this new Decree on Digital Economy Development cements Belarus» status as a «crypto - country» and opens up an entire world of possibilities for IT companies specializing in blockchain and crypto - based products and solutions.

When the now - infamous 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti's capital of Port au Prince on January 12, 2010, the entire country's transportation system, government, and economy, ground to a halt.

You have the entire country watching us over a gay marriage bill — while we have the worst economy and most onerous level of taxation in the United States.

If that were true, it would also mean men were losing companies more money, and putting entire economies / countries in more danger, because of their «flighty» buying (and, so, selling).

Under his leadership, we are expanding the stock of affordable housing in the North Country — and we will thereby grow the entire regional economy.»

He said, «The truth of the matter is that as the most populous Nigerian state and the commercial heart - beat of the entire West Africa; a state that would have been the fifth largest economy in Africa if it were an independent country, Nigeria needs Lagos in order for other parts of the country to continue to benefit from Lagos.

My parents» generation dealt with segregation and its aftermath, Vietnam, and the much harder part of the transition from an industrial to an information economy, when hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs disappeared, leaving entire regions of the country reeling.

The attachment of a value to the waste product carbon, recoverable as a refundable deposit to anyone who claims it, creates a lasting incentive to the entire country, economy, and individuals to engage in that carbon avoidance and recovery behavior.

It was a shift that made perfect sense on paper, but not on the ground, where the country's forest fires have been pumping more greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere than do all the planes, trains, and factories of the United States, as the World Resources Institute (WRI) pointed out in a blog post called Indonesia's Fire Outbreaks Producing More Daily Emissions than Entire US Economy.

In summary, a strong case can be made that the US emissions reduction commitment for 2025 of 26 % to 28 % clearly fails to pass minimum ethical scrutiny when one considers: (a) the 2007 IPCC report on which the US likely relied upon to establish a 80 % reduction target by 2050 also called for 25 % to 40 % reduction by developed countries by 2020, and (b) although reasonable people may disagree with what «equity» means under the UNFCCC, the US commitments can't be reconciled with any reasonable interpretation of what «equity» requires, (c) the United States has expressly acknowledged that its commitments are based upon what can be achieved under existing US law not on what is required of it as a mater of justice, (d) it is clear that more ambitious US commitments have been blocked by arguments that alleged unacceptable costs to the US economy, arguments which have ignored US responsibilities to those most vulnerable to climate change, and (e) it is virtually certain that the US commitments can not be construed to be a fair allocation of the remaining carbon budget that is available for the entire world to limit warming to 2 °C.

119 The twentieth century witnessed the globalization of the world energy economy as the entire world came to depend heavily on a handful of countries for oil, many of them in one region of the world.

Now games have movie - level budgets, massive marketing campaigns, professional eSports leagues — oh, and entire economies that rival that of some real - world countries.