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United Kingdom - 408.3%
External debt (as % of GDP): 408.3%
External debt per capita: $148,702
Gross external debt: $9.087 trillion (2009 Q2)
2008 GDP (est): $2.226 trillion
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The Tories claimed it highlighted a growing "dependency" on state help.
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Judging by the break-even rates on inflation-protected bonds, the United Kingdom is home to the highest future inflation of any major nation.
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Whitehall mandarins face an unprecedented threat of sacking under Tory plans to end the "job for life" culture of the civil service.
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LONDON (AP) -- The British government is holding a fire sale of public assets including the undersea Channel rail link to raise 16 billion pounds ($25 billion) as Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned on Monday that the country is "only halfway there" in overcoming the recession.
The sale of assets, which also includes the government's 33 percent stake in European uranium consortium Urenco, spearheads the ruling Labour Party's attempt to boost its economic credentials as it loses ground to the opposition Conservative Party ahead of next year's general election
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My eldest son and his partner are tying the knot next weekend and are planning to go on honeymoon. They will be flying to Faro, Portugal and driving across the border to southern Spain.
But there's a problem.
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UNITED NATIONS —
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair says he hopes to break the "deadlock" in global climate talks with evidence that 10 million jobs could be created by 2020, if developing nations agree to big cuts in greenhouse gases.
Blair, heading up a climate initiative, released a report that also shows a global climate agreement could increase the world's GDP by 0.8 percent by 2020, as compared with the projected gross domestic product with no climate action.
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ENTERPRISE: REST OF THE WORLD VERSION
The squirrel works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building and improving his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
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On BBC1 there's a 1 hour preview of next year's World Cup, except in Scotland where they'll be showing the film Out of Africa.
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A report by the Ernst & Young ITEM Club predicts that it will take five years before they reach the peak levels of 2007.
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