Regulators are taking a hard look at how banks structured, priced and sold mortgage-laden securities, but by the estimate of some it's too little and too late.
In 2000 only a single-digit percentage of kids had a wireless phone, but that changed by 2003, when some estimate one-third of U.S. kids aged 11 to 17 had one (see: " Wee Wireless Warriors").
Some sources estimate that by the year 2025, there will be critical water shortages.
According to one estimate, by the World Bank, some 35m Brazilians earn less than 73 reais a month.
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As a matter of fact, LetsBuyIt.com still has some funding left - about 18m euros by one estimate.
Some economists were surprised by India's weak growth estimate.
Commentators estimate bank profitability will reduce by 20-40% for some business lines and geographies.
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According to an estimate by the World Bank, the disease has already cost the Caribbean region some 6% of its potential wealth, because of lost workers, increased dependency on those who do work, higher medical spending and reduced savings.
By using the Family Spending Survey (FSS) to estimate a few key expenditure items, some individual household accuracy is lost.
Narrowing current gender gaps in employment could increase income per capita in some emerging economies by anything from 10 percent to 14 percent above forecasts by 2020, the bank's researchers estimate.
The original estimate of a 0.7% contraction, published in July, was greeted with some scepticism by a number of experts and by some industries that claimed they had seen little sign of such a serious economic downturn.
Some of their proposals are very similar to those put to the House on July 3 last year by the Members Estimate Committee - which I chair - and copies of which are lodged in the Vote Office.
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