Quotes and Sayings About Gdp
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Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.
-- Abu Bakar Bashir -
If Europe today accounts for just over 7 per cent of the world’s population, produces around 25 per cent of global GDP and has to finance 50 per cent of global social spending, then it’s obvious that it will have to work very hard to maintain its prosperity and way of life,
-- Angela Merkel -
Western States keep playing with, and around, Russia.
-- Aslan Maskhadov -
Robert Taylor was not only a splendid actor in a wide variety of roles but one of the most handsome men in the western world.
-- Audrey Meadows -
World military spending has now risen to over $1.2 trillion. This incredible sum represents 2.5 per cent of GDP (global gross domestic product). Even if 1 per cent of it were redirected towards development, the world would be much closer to achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
-- Ban Ki-moon -
I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.
-- Barry Corbin -
Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP.
-- Bill Gross -
The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China.
-- Chen-Ning Yang -
Our estimates suggest that a tax increase of 1 percent of GDP reduces output over the next three years by nearly 3 percent. The effect is highly significant.
-- Christina Romer -
Eugene is located in western Oregon, approximately 278 billion miles from anything.
-- Dave Barry -
It's time we admitted that there's more to life than money, and it's time we focused not just on GDP, but on GWB - general well-being
-- David Cameron -
In the eighties and nineties, the innovation agenda was exclusively focused on enterprises. There was a time in which economic and social issues were seen as separate. Economy was producing wealth, society was spending. In the 21st century economy, this is not true anymore. Sectors like health, social services and education have a tendency to grow, in GDP percentage as well as in creating employment, whereas other industries are decreasing. In the long term, an innovation in social services or education will be as important as an innovation in the pharmaceutical or aerospatial industry.
-- Diogo Vasconcelos -
Because people of color will definitely, definitely become the power base in the Western Hemisphere.
-- Edward James Olmos -
What are these so-called austerity measures? What do they really bring? Oh, they bring a lot more poverty. Oh, they bring a worse GDP. Oh, they bring more unemployment.
-- Gerald Celente -
The question is: How do we reduce spending from 25% of GDP, which is where Obama put us? The focus is on total government spending. Can we bring it down, in a reasonable and politically acceptable way? That's what the Paul Ryan plan does. It puts us on a gradual reform path to reducing the size of government.
-- Grover Norquist -
Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.
-- Harold Pinter -
The US economy, because it's so energy wasteful, is much less efficient than either the European or Japanese economies. It takes us twice as much energy to produce a unit of GDP as it does in Europe and Japan. So, we're fundamentally less efficient and therefore less competitive, and the sooner we being to tighten up, the better it will be for our economy and society.
-- Hazel Henderson -
I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.
-- J. Philippe Rushton -
India needs to be liberated both from the 'high GDP growth hedgehogs' and the 'conservation at all costs hedgehogs.'
-- Jairam Ramesh -
Europe and North America, we are told, are less dependent on energy-intensive heavy industry than in the 1960s and 1970s. It seems we squeeze more GDP out of a barrel of oil than in those benighted days.
-- James Buchan -
It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum.
-- Jerry Springer -
Apart from their work and production, households perform other important economic functions. Most CONSUMPTION occurs within the household. ... In developed capitalist economies, private consumption spending accounts for half or more of GDP.
-- Jim Stanford -
If I have any choice I would prefer Western Troops.
-- John Buford -
The present aristocracy of western culture, at the moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country.
-- John Desmond Bernal -
But clearly an economy that's growing and expanding like this one - and it certainly is doing that with high GDP output, employment numbers strong, capacity utilization strong - that's an environment in which the Fed needs to continually be alert to early signs of inflation.
-- John W. Snow -
GDP tells you nothing about sustainability
-- Joseph Stiglitz -
I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one.
-- Katharine Whitehorn -
Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it.
-- Ken Livingstone -
Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves.
-- Lawrence Kasdan -
Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.
-- Michael Novak