The stock- and housing markets are booming, prices in parts of Nairobi rising sevenfold since 2009.
He could soon have access to the internet at more than six megabytes a second providing he is prepared to pay $140 a month instead of $21 for his existing DSL connection.A 70-fold increase in speed for a sevenfold increase in price would seem a bargain.
In poorer parts of Asia the size of the middle classes those living on $2-20 2-20y—has increaseday hasfold sincreasedturn of the millennium.
Although trade between the two countries under NAFTA has grown almost sevenfold, most of it is linked to the United States, and two-way investment is modest.
Even the word he used for truth (daoli, which is often translated as reason or rule) is more colloquial than the loftier term, zhenli, reserved for high truths like Marxism-Leninism.Giants playing catch-upThanks to a sevenfold rise in its output since then, China is well past the point of being bullied.
Healthline, a health-search site with a "symptom search" function, saw its number of unique monthly visitors increase nearly sevenfold during 2006 to around 2.5m.
Italian households' savings outstrip their borrowings sevenfold; they hold most of the government's huge debt.
The price of the shares of Las Vegas Sands jumped sevenfold, and those of its rivals rose strongly too.
The World Bank says the number of mobile-phone subscribers in sub-Saharan Africa increased sevenfold between 2000 and 2006.
The Asian middle class has increased sevenfold since 2000.
These have disguised a mix of problems including some, or indeed all, of the following: dodgy balance sheets, cumbersome structures, malevolent shareholders, over-stretched (or plain incompetent) management and obsolescent machinery.ZPS, for example, one of the Czech Republic's biggest engineering groups, has increased its sales fivefold and its exports sevenfold since 1989.
