to estimate / to assess / to appreciate
1. An importer who buys goods priced in foreign currency has the risk that the foreign currency will thereby making the cost, in local currency terms, greater than expected.
2. Economic analysis can be used to both the positive and economic value of the BBCs activities, such as their impact on digital take-up, or their negative impact on commercial businesses.
3. During World War I, on the other hand, Japan was blinded by its eagerness to protect small but immediate benefits, and failed to what a true «matter of national importance» was.
4. I the production costs to be 36 percent of the budget.
5. When EU leaders met last spring to progress, they pitifully recognized that the Lisbon Strategy’s goal was unlikely to be met.
6. The Third World Center for Water Management that at least three billion people worldwide still drink water of dubious quality.
to account / to amount / to make up
1. But Russia can afford that: its total international reserves currently to $364 billion, and its public debt is barely 14% of GDP.
2. Financial services may for only 3% of employment, but they generate 11% of tax revenues.
3. Whereas ethnic Russians comprised only 50% of the Soviet Union’s population, they now 81% of the Russian Federation.
4. Japan is a service economy, in which services for more than 50% of the GNP.
5. Oil experts argue that offshore drilling never had the potential to to more than a small share of global supply.
6. The planet’s biomass – forests, pastureland, savannas, and crops – productive capital that generates a 10% “return” every year.
to hinder / to lag behind / to retard
1. But at the moment Russia is simply not the countries to which it is most similar. Its performance is very much in line with the region.
2. It allows countries that can produce food efficiently to ship it to those which face resource limitations that food production.
3. By subjecting trade relations to embargoes, sanctions, and tests of democracy, environmental standards, and human rights, the League is likely to the growth of trade, and thus the chance for poor non-democracies to catch up.
4. China’s technological capacities in this sector even other developing nations such as India and Pakistan, and its reliance on coal is one of the greatest threats to the global climate.
5. Malaria can destroy economic growth and foreign investment just as much as war or economic mismanagement.
6. To seize this opportunity, India first must move decisively away from state capitalism, the remnants of which continue the country’s economic progress.
