Comparing pledges to Unep with a country's gross national product, though, gives a very different picture.
In 1940, health care remained a boutique industry, accounting for roughly 4% of gross national product.
The ODA target of 0.15 per cent of donor's gross national product (GNP) had not been met.
We need more donors to increase official development assistance to 0.7 per cent of their gross national product.
Between 8 percent and 9 percent of the U.S. gross national product depends on the mail system, he said.
In tracing developments from 1500 to 2000, it equated a nation's gross national product with its military, political and economic prowess.
Totalitarian communism remains the only system capable of sustaining peacetime military expenditures on the order of 20-25% of Gross National Product.
Mr. Obama argues the government needs to spend about of 22.5% of the country's gross national product to protect today's citizens and invest for tomorrow's.
If PepsiCo were a country, the size of its economy sixty billion dollars in revenues in 2010 would put it sixty-sixth in gross national product, between Ecuador and Croatia.
Some years back, the U.N. welcomed the new millennium with a proposal that wealthy nations start turning over 0.7% of their gross national product for aid to the developing world.
Goldman tested whether economic output as measured by Gross National Product or its in-house gauge of sustainable growth and productivity known as GES were correlated to FIFA rankings.
The impact on gross national product or GNP - a measure that includes flows of investment income in and out of the country - would be far less.
With high unemployment and a shrinking gross national product, the timing could not be worse for the ruling party, with presidential and parliamentary elections around the corner in 2002.
Arthur Laffer was the author of the above study, which showed that a 1% increase in money growth would produce a similar increase in real gross national product growth.
The Hsinchu Science-Based Industrial Park is a key attraction: Silicon Valley returnees started more than half of the companies there, and it now accounts for roughly 10% of Taiwan's gross national product.
The government has slashed expenditure to try to bring its annual deficit for 2006 down to the three and a half percent maximum of gross national product permitted under European Union rules.
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In little-noticed testimony before Congress last week, Wolfowitz said it was "reckless to press our luck or gamble with our children's future" by spending only 3 percent of America's gross national product on defense.
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He incurred the wrath of the International Monetary Fund and the financial community by unilaterally declaring a limit on debt repayment equal to 10% of the Gross National Product, isolating Peru from international financial markets.
President Nicolas Sarkozy has called upon Nobel prize-winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen in his quest to find an alternative to the widely-used metrics of gross domestic product and gross national product.
Taking those effects into account, CBO estimates that under the extended-baseline scenario, real (inflation-adjusted) gross national product (GNP) would be reduced slightly by 2025 and by as much as 2 percent by 2035, compared with what it would be under the stable economic environment that underlies most of the projections in this report.
Well I think definitely more than what the United States gives because we give 0.1 per cent of the Gross National Product but even more important how it is given because it has been rather ineffective currently, it has particularly in the, in the United States a bad image and I think it could be done a lot better.
Jones used the occasion of the Center event to reiterate his view that a national commitment of at least four percent of Gross Domestic Product to the national security.
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While these sums are large, even the higher add-ons would translate into an allocation of roughly four percent of Gross Domestic Product to national security.
Instead of focusing on gross domestic product (GDP), Bhutan measures gross national happiness (GNH).
The survey is in an effort to produce an alternative measure of national performance to Gross Domestic Product.
The Office for National Statistics said that gross domestic product (GDP) grew 1.0% in the three months from July to September, having contracted in the previous three quarters.
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Stronger rises in factory output and the construction sector, together with continued falls in unemployment, could mean national income as measured by gross domestic product (GDP) is not shrinking as quickly as first estimated.
Coastal counties generate more than half of the U.S. gross domestic product, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and their 66 million jobs represent about a quarter of the national total.
The National Bureau of Statistics estimated that gross domestic product increased by 9.5% in the second quarter this year, down from 9.7% in Q1.
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