This is indeed a milestone. But another, much more important news item has received much less attention Greece exported less in 2013 than in 2012.

Such reforms undoubtedly require a much more politically integrated, or federalized, eurozone. Facing up to that reality will be the main challenge for Europe s leaders in 2013.

Should the Government of Georgia make the payments currently indicated in its schedule for the period from 2005 to 2013 ( 6,986,061), its outstanding assessed contributions at the end of 2013 would amount to its assessments for the period from 2005 to 2013 minus 704,076.

It would reduce Georgia's outstanding assessed contributions at the end of 2013 to its total assessments for the period from 2005 to 2013 minus 544,376.

The Political Economy of 2013

The Economic Fundamentals of 2013

Weimar 2013?

Work on its renewal is due to start now, with the completed project ready in 2013. But a much more profound re think is needed.

Beijing released officially and implemented the 2013 2017 Clean Air Action Plan in Beijing in 2013.

It was 2014, not 2013.

Ground the Drones in 2013

The Eurozone s Agenda in 2013

Williams was diagnosed in December 2013.

Tom has been here since 2013.

For the first time, it has offered its own candidature for non permanent membership of the Security Council for the term 2012 2013.

Tom passed away on October 20, 2013.

In April 2010, the International Monetary Fund s World Economic Outlook projected 1.8 annual GDP growth in Germany and the Netherlands in 2013. In October of last year, the IMF lowered its 2013 growth forecast for Germany to 0.9 and to 0.4 for the Netherlands.

She was banned for 16 months in 2013 after traces of an anabolic steroid were found in her system.

Sakic, who hired Roy on May 23, 2013, thanked Roy for his contributions to the team.

But optimism foundered over the course of 2013, and frustration soared.

Conflicts are much more likely to arise or persist when those with the means to prevent or end them cannot or will not do so. Unfortunately, this will be borne out in 2013.

It's difficult. 2011, 2013. Freedom Tower, the memorial.

This process will be implemented annually until 2013.

As for Europe, many investors still assume that a moment will arrive when we can definitively conclude that European Monetary Union is finished or saved. Unfortunately, it is much more likely that, at least ahead of Germany s autumn 2013 elections, key decisions will be postponed or avoided.

In early 2013, the government was forced to announce a 32 devaluation, and stopped issuing government debt in dollars. The issuance of dollar bonds was a major source of abuse, with speculators buying dollar debt at the official exchange rate, selling it for greenbacks, and then exchanging them for bolivars at a much higher rate on the black market.

More than 90 of House Republicans have signed a no tax pledge. Other members champion the cause of a much smaller government and welcome the deep spending cuts that are scheduled to take effect in 2013, even if they trigger a recession.

The reported US current account deficits from 1982 to 2013, based on subsequent revisions, total 9.5 trillion. And yet the deterioration in the US international investment position over this period was not much more than half of that amount ( 5.7 trillion if measured relative to the revised estimate for 1981).

On Nov. 5, 2013, India launched the first Mars probe Mangalian , and has become Asia's first country for successful detection of the Mars.

By the same token, while there has been much concern about America s political gridlock, something worse for America, and for the world, could have happened the Republicans could have prevailed in their program of austerity cum redistribution to the wealthy. Automatic cuts won t happen until 2013, which means that the economy in 2012 will be spared, ever so slightly.

PARIS When it comes to compensation, the company you work for often matters more than how good you are at what you do. In 2013, the average employee of Goldman Sachs, the investment bank, earned 383,000 much higher than what the best performing employee in most firms can hope to take home.

Thus, in addition to an orderly resolution regime for banks, Europe must also implement early orderly restructurings of distressed sovereigns public debt. Waiting until 2013 to implement these restructurings, as German Chancellor Angela Merkel proposes, will destroy confidence, as it implies a much larger haircut on residual private claims on sovereign borrowers.

Close and defining linkages between politics and economics are likely to persist in 2013. Having said this, we should also expect much greater segmentation in terms of impact and that the consequences will affect both individual countries and the global system as a whole.

BEIJING China s economic growth rate slowed in the second quarter of this year to 7.5 year on year, down from 7.7 in the January March period, in line with Chinese economists forecasts in recent months. At the start of 2013, however, economists both at home and abroad were much more upbeat about the prospects for Chinese growth.

SANTIAGO As commodity prices come back to earth and the Federal Reserve s gradual exit from quantitative easing leads to higher interest rates in the United States, Latin America s economies face the challenge of sustaining growth. The region s main economies recorded slower GDP growth in 2013, and much the same is being forecast for 2014.

She claimed the money was going towards a headstone for her son, Lee Skeldon, who died in a car crash in 2013.

She hasn't lost an all around competition since the summer of 2013, a winning streak that should go for as long as Biles wants it to.

After all, the last big partisan fight (in 2013) over funding the government and raising the debt limit gained little for the Republicans who instigated it other than significant damage to their reputation for responsibility. And the current Republican leadership, eager to strengthen their party s electoral chances in 2016, very much wants to project an image of sober good sense.

Abe has not visited the shrine in person since December 2013, which he said he did to show respect for those who died for their country.

The main question this year is thus likely to be whether an outcome can be negotiated that is enough for Iran but not too much for the United States, Israel, and others. What is certain, however, is that 2013 will be defined in a fundamental way by whether military action against Iran occurs or is averted.

The Portuguese economy is now expected to contract by 1 in 2013. In late June, the IMF projected modest growth, and, at the time of the bailout agreement in May 2011, GDP in 2013 was expected to grow by 1.25 .

Europe in 2013 will continue to need the pressure from the crisis in order to find a way to overcome it once and for all. Regardless of electoral outcomes in important EU member states, Europeans will remain unable to expect much from their political leaders, because opposition forces generally have little more to offer than the incumbents do.

Moreover, higher education in China leaves much to be desired, with employer surveys revealing that graduates of upper secondary schools and universities usually lack the required technical knowledge and soft skills. For example, in 2013, more than one third of the Chinese firms surveyed said that they struggled to recruit skilled workers, with 61 attributing this to a shortage of general employable skills.

From the speech delivered by Xi Jinping at the 2th plenary session of the 18th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China on January 22, 2013

He said, you know, there's this fiscal cliff coming, it's going to come at the beginning of 2013.

When I left the Vilnius meeting in 2013, I could certainly see storm clouds gathering, but I did not know that Putin was prepared to unleash so much aggression and turmoil. Now we in Europe have every reason to prepare for the long term effort needed to help our neighbors along their chosen paths.