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France | 9.7% | Britain | 7.7% | Costs increase in the USA (1970s- 1990s): Global expenses: +10% per year Medicare: from $6b to $ 200b. Federal budget for Medicare and social security: forecast 1997: 8% GDP… 2050: 16% Gross Domestic Product Main reason: the elderly boom = (baby boomers are going to retire) Timebomb 2008: three workers/ one retiree 2030: two workers/ one retiree = the system will not stand this financial pressure much longer = need for reform 4.

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have a phrase that implies that children should not be working and use expressions more similar to “child work”. Few prospects – 12-year-old Beatrice, cleans pots in a yard in the town of Mombasa on the southeastern coast of Kenya. She works as a domestic in a relative’s home and no longer attends school. UNICEF/HQ96-1395/Giacomo Pirozzi 7 The terminology used is important because it implies what should be done in response: a “child labourer” should be returned to school; a “youth” or “adolescent”

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(Hill, 2000). A major development during this period was the significant increase of private investment and the rise of multinational corporations (MNCs). By the 1980s, the annual volume of sales of the 10 largest MNCs was greater than the gross domestic product (GDP) of 87 countries (Dougherty & Pfaltzgraff, 1990). This reflects the extent of cross-border trade and investment promoted by these multinationals. MNCs also established themselves as powerful international entities capable of influencing

imbalances in the economy were also policy driven, resulting from the controls on the allocation of credit and foreign exchange, intensive exchange and trade restrictions, distortions in the pricing system including exchange rates, interest rates and domestic energy prices in an environment of inadequate demand management. This has induced inefficiency in the allocation of resources, rendered the economy less competitive and wakened its capacity to respond to external shocks. All these factors

international role of the euro 31 Currency denomination in global debt securities markets 32 Currency denomination in the market for cross-border deposits 33 Currency denomination of foreign exchange market turnover 34 Ratio of outstanding international to domestic debt securities TABLES 49 50 58 60 61 62 62 26 1 27 27 34 35 36 37 37 42 42 Key data on the international role of the euro 2 Alternative measures of debt securities supply and shares of major currencies 3 Net issuance

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