14,040 source-backed finance facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 140 of 141.
“Bernard Kouchner, the UN’s special representative, tells anyone who will listen that international parsimony has forced him to become a professional panhandler – the good doctor’s entire annual budget amounts to less than a day’s worth of …”
“the costs of the project have escalated to £260 million”
“It soared over budget by £300.”
“Americans spend $106 for every $100 they earn”
“the state should make a capital grant of £10,000 to every 18 year old for investment in education or for the down payment on a home”
“the Institute for Public Policy Research has come out with an attenuated form of the same idea, involving £1,000 grants”
“give newly married couples a grant of £5,000 to help them invest for their future family”
“British direct investment in the US over the past decade has been double its investment in Europe, while investment in the UK from the US and Canada has been more than 11 times EU investment in the UK.”
“half of our industrial exports do indeed go to Europe.”
“P W Botha produced nuclear warheads at a cost of around £150 million”
“as the hole-in-the-wall gang prepared to levy a £2.50 double charge for taking a tenner out of the local cash terminal.”
“He has been asking a rather obvious question of an industry that coins £20 billion in profits”
“Link says that the average cost of a transaction is 30p.”
“But Cruickshank has indicated an even lower price – between 15p and 30p per transaction.”
“John Hardy, Link’s chief executive, says that the charges will be clearly revealed on the screen before a transaction is made.”
“Our view is that you should only pay for the basic cost when the big banks have such a stranglehold over the cash machine network”
“John Bridgeman, director general of the Office of Fair Trading, has warned against excessive charges and said that he will be “studying the implications of ATM charges for new entry to the industry”.”
“Tim Sweeney, director general of the British Bankers’ Association, says that “the level of charges should be driven by the logic of the marketplace. It is patently absurd that a bank should invest heavily in a network of cash machines and …”
“On 1 February, the price of cocoa beans reached its lowest point since 1971, fetching $790.67 a tonne.”
“1999 saw a dramatic fall: farmers’ prices were cut by half in one year.”
“Today’s price stands at around half the median price of the past three decades.”
“the total UK chocolate market is worth about £3.7 billion a year, that is £62.64 per person.”
“A family of four will spend, on average, £250 a year on chocolate.”
“This, by coincidence, was the average income of a small farmer in Ghana in 1999.”
“at £431 a week”
“The extra cost to the Treasury was estimated at £1.1 billion a year”
“proposed a more modest £300 million subsidy to services”
“The present £16,000 limit on what you can own before paying for all your care”
“40,000 homes are sold each year”
“range from zero to £85 for 12 hours’ help”
“The greater Seattle economy alone is larger than the Highlands and Islands economy – never mind the Inverness one – by a substantial multiple.”
“those forces are nowhere more evident than in our unwillingness to picture a Scotland organised in such a way as to equip our country with commercial and industrial centres sufficiently dynamic to challenge the economic dominance exercised…”
“The bank has assets of $725 million: a 15-fold increase over 25 years.”
“In 1998-99, it made a record profit of more than $5 million”
“and its return on equity has averaged more than 25 per cent for most of the past 20 years.”
“And in the same year Shorebank lent more than $61 million to 13 distressed neighbourhoods in Chicago.”
“Modelling women’s incomes over a lifetime, the report calculated that a mid-skill woman (with qualifications at GCSE level) earns £241,000 less over her lifetime than her male counterpart.”
“She earns £36,000 more than a woman of exactly the same skill-level, but with a child.”
“The Women’s Unit calculates that a high-skill woman loses £19,000 by having a second child, a mid-skill woman, £140,000, and a low-skill woman £269,000, or a staggering 58 per cent of her lifetime earnings.”
“Over the course of her lifetime, a low-skill woman with two children will earn around £500,000 less than her low-skill husband.”
“To put it another way, his lifetime earnings will be nearly double hers.”
“At the other end of the scale, a high-skill mother of two earns £160,000 (or 14 per cent) less than her husband.”
“As Katherine Rake, lecturer in social policy at the LSE and editor of this report, points out: ‘Going part-time involves downshifting in the pay-scale. Part-time workers are being paid less now than in the 1980s. It’s not just a case of mo…”
“Eighty per cent of mothers may be in paid employment, but bearing children actually has a worse effect on women’s earnings now than 15 years ago.”
“As late as 1997, the IMF had to bail the country out of a crisis with a $17.2 billion loan.”
“Michael Camdessus, the retiring IMF chief, now says he is delighted to see the country’s economic recovery – a recovery to which the one million-plus backpackers (most of them British) contributed significantly.”
“At the peak of the 1997-8 high season, the baht was valued at more than 50 to the US dollar”
“£60 million project”
“green fee, which is £80 in summer”
“£36 in winter”
“MPs, and not just the usual suspects on the left, have been arguing noisily for the minimum wage to be raised above £3.60 – a level so low that even Michael Portillo can live with it. Hey presto, the Treasury is to throw another ten pence …”
“After the over-hyping of the original £40 billion boost for health, education and welfare”
“As many as 50 per cent of the population have less than £500 in savings.”
“The proportion of the population that doesn’t own any assets at all actually doubled between 1979 and 1996 – from 5 to 10 per cent.”
“Since 1979, the contribution that investment income makes to income inequality has increased almost fourfold.”
“One is to pay a capital endowment, of say £1,000, to all 18 year olds.”
“cost £60 million; in fact, meeting the target will cost £627 million”
“Independent economists estimate that, without vast injections of cash, it could take 40 years to clamber back to the levels of 1968.”
“With parliamentary pay-and-expenses packages of £80,000 and more, this democracy overkill is an expensive luxury.”
“its economy is growing at only about 3.5 per cent a year”
“Lucio Tan, who owns the ailing Philippine Airlines (PAL), and whose wealth is said to exceed $3 billion, has benefited from Estrada’s starting landing rights’ rows with foreign airlines.”
“Three big aid donors – the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and the Japanese government – warned last month that they might suspend donations if reforms are not implemented to tackle poverty, boost tax receipts and reverse a growing …”
“Its economy is growing at only about 3.5 per cent a year, which is low by current regional standards.”
“Three big aid donors – the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and the Japanese government – warned last month that they might suspend donations if reforms are not implemented”
“At the end of last year, a breakthrough occurred: more than 100,000 new mortgages were taken out in a month.”
“In December, house prices rose by 2.6 per cent – the second-highest monthly rise since the summer of 1988;”
“and the 12 months of 1999 provided the highest growth in prices since 1989.”
“And 300,000 homes – equivalent to the entire city of Birmingham – were repossessed during the first five years of the nineties.”
“last summer a one-bedroom flat in Hawick, a town in the Scottish Borders, was sold at auction for just £6,000.”
“Another, with three bedrooms, fetched three times as much.”
“In 1995, a detached house in the South-east was worth 46 per cent more than a similar house in Yorkshire; by 1999, the difference had risen to 86 per cent.”
“After some months, we invited an agent to reassess our one-bedroom flat, and found the value had risen by £50,000 in a year.”
“the venture capitalist will turn a $10 million investment into $200 million in 18 months”
“The subsidy per bird on islands such as Coll seems to be £30,000.”
“interest rates around twice those in the euro-zone”
“the estimated cost of the agency was given as £100 million.”
“accepting US$800 from abroad to buy a computer.”
“superteachers, whose pay can go up to £40,200.”
“Blunkett has £1.2 billion to spend”
“Woodhead’s salary of £115,000 and his 34 per cent pay rise this year”
“cannot earn more than £22,038 a year”
“staged increase of between 2 per cent and 2.9 per cent this year”
“inflation was 4 per cent”
“average vice- chancellor earned £105,344”
“best paid, at University College, London, earned £144,709”
“lecturers start on £16,655”
“as little as £11,000 a year”
“start on £14,751 (going up this week to £15,012)”
“average graduate starting salary is £16,500”
“it’s predicted that the loss to the Treasury over the next ten years will be of the order of £500 million”
“whose profits last year were around £420 million”
“which they clearly regard as a rather measly 25 per cent return on capital”
“GMTV, which offered to pay the Treasury £50 million a year”
“Yorkshire TV retained its franchise by bidding £52 million a year”
“GMTV (whose bid in 1991 was seen as ludicrously excessive) with annual payments cut from £50.5 million to £20 million”
“Yorkshire TV, down from £52 million to £35 million”
“Carlton, which will pay £72 million instead of £81.5 million”
“HTV, which covers Wales and the west, is having its payments reduced from £25.5 million to £9 million”
“Tyne Tees from £18.5 million to £11 million”
“Granada revealed that its annual profits had leapt to almost £1 billion”
