Embratur reckons the equivalent of $6 billion has been invested in tourism infrastructure in the past five years, but it says more is needed.
The most lucrative trade of all is in petrol: Venezuela's energy minister, Rafael Ramírez, reckons the equivalent of 100,000 barrels a day of oil is smuggled out of the country.The cause is a battery of state subsidies and price controls in place in Venezuela, which also maintains a heavily overvalued currency.
How many obols did you reckon the equivalent of the likeness of God? How many staters did you get for selling that being shaped by God? God said, Let us make man in our own image and likeness.
In absolute terms, India comes top, with more than 14m people reckoned to be equivalent to slaves, followed by China, Pakistan, Uzbekistan and Russia.
Even leaving aside the politics of race and gender, Feedback reckoned: "It's the equivalent of seeing your granny doing the macarena on the dancefloor.
In his first 18 months as prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi dithered over the banks, whose bad loans are officially reckoned to be ¥43 trillion $345 billionn), equivalent to 8% of GDP, though more realistic estimates put them at twice or even three times that figure.
Stuart Lancaster reckons the nearest equivalent to this weekend's Six Nations finale is the tension-racked climax of a Ryder Cup.
Of the $500 billion a year the IMF reckons they cost the equivalent of four times all official foreign aid half is spent by governments in the Middle East and north Africa, where, on average, it is worth about 20% of government revenues.
Having already extracted 42 billion barrels of oil or its gas equivalent (boe), it's reckoned that there are between 15 billion and 24 billion boe left.
The hardest part about adjusting to China for most Internet companies is that social networks like Facebook and Twitter are censored, leaving apps like the social-heavy Instagram to reckon with Chinese equivalents Weibo and Renren.
