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2010 |
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| $440 bn |
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It is the loan facility amount the 16 Euro area members have secured for themselves for the three coming years. The European Financial Stability Fund in charge of running it will issue guaranteed bonds to grant loans against conditionality to those members facing funding difficulties in the financial markets. These amounts could be completed by an IMF loan facility worth euros 250 bn. |
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July |
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| $1 billion |
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As of June 1, this is the amount spent by BP to try to contain the oil spill that pollutes the Gulf of Mexico. However, the cost for BP goes far beyond. Between April 20, when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig collapsed, and June 1, BP’s shareholders have lost nearly $70 billion (that is, a 40% decrease of BP’s market capitalization). |
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June |
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| 31,6% |
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This is the hedge funds' losses in percent of all managed assets in 2008 |
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April |
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| 90% |
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90% of trade in goods between China and Asean (about 200 billion of USD) are free of customs duties since last 1st of January. The reciprocal tariff dismantlement, started in 2005, has thus reached its 2010 target... |
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January |
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2009 |
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| -12,7% |
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This is, in 2009, the Greek fiscal balance in percentage of the GDP for 2009 as forecast by the European Commission. This deficit is not deeper than those predicted for the most strongly hit by the global crisis countries in Europe (United Kingdom, Ireland or Spain). The Greek sovereign debt stock is very high (near 100% of the GDP in 2008), but lower than Italy’s and much lower than Japan’s ones. |
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December |
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| +8% |
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The world trade increased by 8% at the end of the second quarter 2009. This number is larger than the increase of GDP (5.8%) observed for the same period. This over reaction of trade as compared to GDP was already noticed at the end of 2008: the reduction of trade of 22% has also been more pronounced than the decrease of the world GDP (8%). |
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November |
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| -15 |
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On the whole, the deterioration of the US net foreign asset position can roughly be estimated to be more than 15 percent of GDP between end-2007 and end-2008. |
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April |
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2008 |
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| 54 000 |
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In year 2006, 54000 Europeans were researchers in the US. By the same year, there were 1.3 millions researchers in the EU15 labor force |
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October |
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| 75 |
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The debt accumulated by the French pension regimes could represent 75% of GDP in 2050 if no other reform will be introduced to complete the Fillon reform (2003) |
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September |
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| 5,4 |
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5.4% is the world average growth rate of trade in goods, in volume, over the period 1996-2004. This figure is to be compared with the 6.9% growth rate of world trade in value across this period |
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June |
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| 26 |
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The Economic Partnership Agreements, still under negotiation, between the European Union and the ACP countries, would imply for the latter an average reduction by 26% of their total customs receipts in 2022, according to the estimations of the CEPII |
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May |
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| 4.506 |
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This is the French quota share at the IMF after an agreement found by the Executive Board last March 28, to be ratified by the Board of Governors. This a 0.518 point cut compared to the pre-review quota, in September 2006 |
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April |
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| - 2 |
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In the first quarter of 2008, despite increases over the last ten years, the real price of crude oil for the European Union is still 2 per cent below the 1981 record high; whereas for the United States, today's price is 20% above the 1980 record high |
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March |
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| 4 100 |
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The Chinese GDP per capita has been valued at $ 4,100 in purchasing power parity in 2005. This figure, published by the World Bank in December 2007, was brought to the world’s attention for its being below the previous estimate by 40% ($ 6,600) |
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February |
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2007 |
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| 68 |
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68% of French exports are performed by 1% of exporting firms. 94% of exports are performed by the top 10% exporters. This is one of the most striking result of an analysis conducted on individual data collected by the Customs Office for the year 2003 |
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November |
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| 3 941 |
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Is the number of manufactured products shipped by China to the USA in 2004; in other words, China is exporting 88% of manufactured items imported by the USA in our classification |
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October |
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| 5 |
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In France, a decline of employer's social contributions targeted on low wages would reduce production costs 5 times more in the hotel and catering business than in aeronautics |
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September |
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| 15 |
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This is the IMF quota share that China could reap in 2030 if the present, complicated system of calculation was to be still in use at that time |
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July-August |
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| 7 |
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Rich countries protection in agriculture is seven times higher than other activities with an average of 20.1% for duties applied on agricultural imports and 2.6% for industrial ones |
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June |
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| 2 |
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Hourly labour productivity in the market economy has increased twice as quick in the United States (3% per year) as in the EU-15 (1.5%) over the 1995-2004 period |
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May |
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| 1/3 |
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This is the EU-25 share of
the world market for top-range manufactured goods (intra-EU excluded) |
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April |
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| 50 |
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Fifty years ago, the Treaty of Rome established the European Economic Community (EEC) |
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March |
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| 121 |
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Yens in One Dollar, on February 2007 |
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February |
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| 150 |
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WTO welcomed on January 11, 2007 its 150th member : Vietnam |
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January |
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2006 |
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East and South-East Asia progressed by 14 percentage points in wolrd GDP |
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