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The cumulative growth of employment between 1998 and 2013 in the informal sector was a whopping 115%,
compared
to 6% in the formal economy.
Stimson warned that “the world in its present state of moral advancement
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with its technical development would be eventually at the mercy of such a weapon.
People who started using cannabis before the age of 16 have a higher risk of psychosis
compared
to those who start after 18.
Uranium enrichment is certainly the first condition for making bombs, but the level of enrichment must reach about 95%,
compared
to 3.5% for energy production.
Although exiting the Troika program is undoubtedly a success, especially when
compared
with the country’s wretched outlook in late 2010, no one should aspire to what Ireland has been through.
The International Fund for Agricultural Development sees enormous potential in Africa’s agricultural sector, which experienced 4.8% growth in 2009,
compared
to 3.8% in the Asia-Pacific region and only 1.4% in Latin America and the Caribbean.
On average, they apply less than 10 kilograms of fertilizer per hectare,
compared
to 140 kilograms in India.
But doubling US foreign aid involves a modest amount of money,
compared
to what will be saved by pulling out of Iraq.
In the 1990's, the US devoted 2.8% of GDP annually on R&D,
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with 2.3% in Germany, 2% in the UK, and 1.9% in France.
Public finances showed a 2.8%-of-GDP surplus in 2008,
compared
to a 1.4%-of-GDP deficit in 2000-2005.
Western Union charges fees as high as 25% on transfers to these countries,
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to an average global benchmark of 5%, and has required that Franc-Zone countries sign exclusivity agreements, thereby preventing foreign-exchange bureaux, post offices, and micro-finance institutions from carrying out money transfers.
But, while Obama’s emphasis on institutions is particularly striking when
compared
with other major US presidential addresses, the starkest contrast is with British Prime Minister David Cameron’s speech about Europe, delivered two days later.
Compared
to most European countries, the United States was a latecomer to globalization.
The basis for the scare story about Japan is that its GDP has grown over the last decade at an average annual rate of only 0.6%
compared
to 1.7 % for the US.
Thus, as it stands today, EMU could be
compared
to a pressure cooker without any relief valve built in.
As a percentage of GDP, China’s tax revenues amount to about 18% –
compared
to around 26% of GDP in developed countries and around 20% in developing countries (in 2013) – and continues to decline.
Moreover, as Major General Kristin Lund, the first-ever female commander of United Nations field operations, has pointed out, access to the local population is vital to support peacekeeping, and women have access to 100% of the population,
compared
to only 50% for men – an invaluable advantage for, say, intelligence gathering.
He has been
compared
to Abraham Lincoln in his willingness to include rivals as well as friends on his team.
According to the UN High Commission for Refugees, there were 65 million refugees last year,
compared
to just 1.6 million in 1960.
EU farm policy has started to be reformed, and its share of the EU budget has fallen from over 60% to 40%;Britain has for several years enjoyed significantly faster economic growth than most other member states, so that it is now one of the richer EU countries, even
compared
with France and Germany; and the new member states are so much poorer than even the poorest of the old members, that they have an unanswerable moral case for a generous share of whatever budget could be negotiated.
That Sharon’s stroke could be
compared
– in terms of political consequences – with the assassination of Yitzak Rabin demonstrates that his personality had become associated with hope and security.
The average chemical fertilizer use in sub-Saharan Africa is 12.5 kilograms per hectare of arable land,
compared
to the world average of 102 kg/hectare.
Similarly the agriculture sector is under-capitalized, with extremely low levels of mechanization: an average of 13 tractors per 100 square kilometers
compared
to 129 per square kilometer in South Asia.
Only 10% of Africa’s hydropower potential is exploited,
compared
to 70-80% in OECD countries.
Our feed-in tariff was about €83.6 per megawatt hour (MW/h),
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with free market prices that have mainly ranged from €30 - €70 per MW/h.
Last year, energy represented 8.7% of spending by the bottom 20% of households,
compared
to 4.9% for the top quintile.
Gas provides nearly a quarter of Europe’s energy,
compared
to 14% for nuclear power.
Google Scholar, the academic search engine, records more than 3,000 academic citations of Rogoff’s most cited paper,
compared
to less than 500 for “Growth in a Time of Debt.”
Another survey last year revealed that only 15.3% of Japanese – the lowest proportion in the world – were willing to defend their country,
compared
to 75% of Chinese.
Bo will join a long line of incarcerated officials, though the special prisons where they are held may seem like recreation centers for retired senior officials when
compared
to the abusive and physically degrading conditions that the Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo and other prisoners have had to endure.
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