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It is perfectly reasonable that Putin would back Trump, who had repeatedly expressed admiration for his leadership, over Clinton, who had
compared
him to Adolf Hitler.
An ostensibly meritocratic competitive admission system to the grandes écoles is in fact monopolized by the socially privileged, who accounted for 81% of students admitted to Sciences Po in 1998
(compared
to the roughly 60% of students at Oxford and Cambridge who come from fee-paying private schools).
During the second week of January, 3.7% of Americans tested positive for the seasonal flu,
compared
to 11.5% during the same week in 2009.
We knew that the risks we ran of being roughed up or arrested while demonstrating against visiting Springbok rugby teams were entirely trivial
compared
to the risks that he and his colleagues had been prepared to face.
Indeed, a group of economists (including me) concluded in a report commissioned by the Legatum Institute that, despite its apparent subjectivity, “wellbeing” – or life satisfaction – can be measured robustly,
compared
internationally, and used to set policies and judge their success.
In low-income countries, half of all health-care spending (about 2.5% of GDP) is out-of-pocket
(compared
to 2% in middle-income countries).
I believe that there are forces at work that tend to make the total income that accrues to labor relatively small
compared
to the income that accrues to capital.
The service sector makes up 79% of Britain’s GDP, and accounts for some 80% of employment in the UK economy,
compared
to just 10% for manufacturing.
It certainly sounds rational, especially
compared
to a more diplomatic approach of lifting some economic sanctions in exchange for, say, cooperation in Syria.
Such a policy should be relatively uncontroversial, at least as
compared
to more concrete foreign-policy moves.
The overall budget deficit is still predicted to be 4.1% of Greece’s GDP in 2013 – a substantial improvement
compared
to 2010 but still far from fiscal balance.
Even more shocking, 12% of Ghanaian girls under 15 have had sex at least once
(compared
to 9% of boys).
Moreover, even when public rescue costs are inevitable, they are typically small change
compared
to the economic harm wrought by the financial crisis and post-crisis recession.
Moreover, there is nothing in economic theory that should have made economic technocrats think that Anglo-American institutions of corporate governance or "flexible labor markets," to pick just two examples, produce unambiguously superior economic performance when
compared
to German-style insider control or institutionalized labor markets.
In Indonesia, women-owned businesses generate 35% of e-commerce revenue,
compared
with only 15% of the revenue of offline businesses.
In fact, China is home to 114 of the world’s 147 self-made female billionaires,
compared
to just 14 in the second-place country, the United States.
For more than a decade, my think tank, the Copenhagen Consensus, has studied and
compared
development options for governments and donor organizations operating at a global, regional, and national level.
Yet their advance is disappointing
compared
to the economy at large and even more so when
compared
with the top 20%, or even 40%, of America’s population.
These two international effects would leave annual net growth of real goods and services available for US consumption and investment – both domestically produced and imported – at just 1.9%, implying no change
compared
to the past decade.
Despite Sharon's absence, Kadima maintains its lead in public opinion polls – the most recent gave it 44 of the Knesset’s 120 seats,
compared
to 21 for Labor and 14 for the right-wing rump-Likud, under Binyamin Netanyahu.
Compared
to the $787 billion stimulus package signed by President Barack Obama last month, that $32 billion is trivial.
Moreover, as he points out, Europe is the world’s second military power, with 21% of the world’s military spending,
compared
to 5% for China, 3% for Russia, 2% for India, and 1.5% for Brazil.
In terms of economic power, Europe has the world’s largest market, and represents 17% of world trade,
compared
to 12% for the US.
Europe also dispenses half of the world’s foreign assistance,
compared
to 20% for the US.
Since 2015, China has taken the lead in e-commerce worldwide, with online purchases accounting for 18% of total retail sales,
compared
to just 8% in the US.
In 2006, a study found that 13% of men who have sex with men in Nigeria were HIV-positive,
compared
to 4.5% of all Nigerians.
As with many efforts of its kind, the agreement needs to be
compared
to alternative outcomes, starting with the real possibility of not concluding any deal at all.
All the while, the total volume of advertisements during the best of times (before the 1998 crisis) did not exceed $2.5billion, as
compared
with more than $20 billion in Germany and more than $117 billion in America.
The MGI also finds that,
compared
to pre-crisis trends, portfolio-debt inflows to emerging markets were larger than predicted between 2009 and 2012.
But this will be true only if new twenty-first-century technologies require significant amounts of labor to develop and install,
compared
to the jobs they disrupt and eliminate.
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