Saturday, June 12th, 2010
U.S. business TV channel CNBC made a rating of most heavily indebted countries. Experts estimated the total debt relative to GDP of the country. The top twenty of the most “heavily indebted” countries was 17 countries in Europe. The USA took only 20th place. The top rating of debtors took Ireland. Its total external debt (both private entities and state) at the end of 2009 totaled 2.32 trillion dollars. This is more than 13 times the volume of island economies (more precisely, at 1312 percent). In the second place reveals Britain. Its total debt (9.15 trillion U.S. dollars) of 426 percent of GDP.
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Friday, December 11th, 2009
The Economist Intelligence Unit center introduced the rating of 30 most environmentally polluted cities. The ratings were set according to the level of carbon (due to traffic jams and industry), use of energy, transport, quality of water and air, waste recycling and ecological politics.
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