While GDP can be helpful, there can be a disconnect between real GDP growth and actual equity market performance, where a lackluster stock market can exist in a country whose GDP regularly exceeds 6.5-7%.

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In a country where average internet access already exceeds Germany, it is clear that there needs to be a real effort to get more computers into people's homes, if this technology revolution is to continue.

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Just to put things in perspective, the difference between the two datasets often exceeds the total production of a major oil producing country like Canada.

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According to Larry Bell, a Forbes contributor, in many parts of the country the PTC actually exceeds the wholesale price of power.

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Australians are all too aware that the population of South-East Asia's biggest country exceeds theirs by 11 times, and is packed into an archipelago a quarter of the size of Australia's sprawling land mass.

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