Yes, this is still a pretty good achievement, getting a company up to the size of a country.
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If weighted for the size of a country's economy, they would prove a better guide to portfolio allocation.
However, the size of a country's domestic markets is a crude measure, not least because it is becoming difficult to define a domestic market.
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At a time of economic crisis, their finding resonates - economic growth slows dramatically when the size of a country's debt rises above 90% of Gross Domestic Product, the overall size of the economy.
Today, a herd of takins lives within a refuge at the edge of Thimpu, the sleepy capital of a country the size of Switzerland with a total population of just 700, 000.
But as Mr May shows, much of the new demography stresses the variety of countries' experience and finds that huge changes are taking place between different age groups even when the overall size of a country is stable.
Our systems balance a number of factors such as the size of the target audience in a country, the competitiveness of the market for ads at that time and levels of engagement with ads.
If, for example, they have to build export facilities, the lengths of pipelines in a country the size of western Europe are daunting.
If the magnitude of a domestic market of a country is measured by the size of her population, China is a large resource (labor) and product (consumer) market.
"This is a country the size of England -- a big part of it is volcanic desert, glaciers, rivers, lakes -- so if we decide to do it we can control the traffic in such a way that we allow people to enjoy the beauty of the country without being overcrowded, " he says.
And his team of 70 fanned out across a country the size of California, apparently to search every abandoned mine and outbuilding for incriminating evidence.
It first demanded, and quickly got, the demilitarisation of a jungle area the size of Switzerland in the southern part of the country, so that it could prepare for talks without the fear of attack.
The community dates back about a century, a response to land shortages in El Salvador - a country about a fifth the size of Honduras, but with a much larger population at that time.
Libya's population is a quarter the size of Iraq's, and the country should be easier to control: almost all its people, a more homogeneous lot albeit with sharp tribal loyalties, live along the Mediterranean coastal strip.
Despite the small size of this country, Mr Nasheed became a disproportionately influential head of state, raising the Maldives' profile by highlighting the threat posed to it by climate change, our correspondent says.
Its founders believed that a country the size of America is best governed locally, not nationally.
It represents a country the size of Venezuela or Malaysia.
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In a country the size of Western Europe, distances are enormous.
If that happened to a country the size of China or India, it would double the number of infected people in the world by itself.
Wealth and Footprint size: The higher the income of a country, the greater was its demand for ecological resources and services (and the higher its per capita consumption).
The bigger problem is that Montrose, while pretty reliable in terms of weather, is just a terrible airport, the most dysfunctional of its size I have ever seen in a first world country.
Qatar, a country about the size of Connecticut and Rhode Island combined, is where the U.S. Central Command has been based since the buildup for the U.S.-led war began.
"Jamaica is now ranked number one in the medal table and that's not bad for a country with a population around the same size as that of the west Midlands, " said the BBC's Nick Davis in Kingston, Jamaica.
And, spread across a country five times the size of Britain, the army is stretched, for all its total of 120, 000 men.
Cairo, for instance, has made it far easier for entrepreneurs to set up legal businesses, which should go a long way toward reducing the size of the country's very large informal economy.
Switzerland, home to two huge banks, UBS and Credit Suisse, each of which at the time of the crisis had assets at least twice the size of the country's annual GDP, is also proposing unusually strict capital rules and giving regulators a say over its banks' business decisions.
New rules are also needed to make the voting power of each country in the council more proportionate to its size: the present system gives small countries a disproportionately big say.
Election experts say it is unlikely the ballots will be able to reach the remote interior of a country where some 60, 000 polling stations are spread out over a territory the size of Western Europe.
The importance of economic size for prosperity depends crucially upon how open a country's economy is.
The country is about the size of western Europe, but with scarcely a decent road outside any of the main towns.
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