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Perhaps that should come as no surprise, given that nearly 5% of US investment is spent on ICT,
compared
to 2% in Europe.
The data are
compared
across economies and over time to rank 185 countries in ten categories of business regulation, such as “Resolving Insolvency” and “Trading Across Borders.”
Moreover, corporate profits have reached record highs in recent years, and while corporate taxes in Germany remain relatively high
compared
to other countries, they were reduced significantly in the 2000s.
Compared
to him, Berlusconi is a shining example of good government.
As documented in a recent paper produced by the Bank of Italy, the country’s productivity performance is truly dismal: over the last two decades, output per employee has decreased by 0.1% per year,
compared
to 0.6% growth in Spain, 0.7% in Germany, and 0.8% in France.
The AKP received just under 41% of the vote,
compared
to around 50% in 2011, and its seat count in the National Assembly will fall from 327 to 258.
Indeed, one might legitimately question whether we have a “system” at all, at least
compared
to the Bretton Woods arrangements and, before that, the seeming simplicity of the gold standard.
Hospitality businesses are now ranked, analyzed, and
compared
not by industry professionals, but by the very people for whom the service is intended – the customer.
Significantly, foreclosures rose 7% month on month in June, and a whopping 32%
compared
to June 2008.
Channeling EU structural funds towards innovation is essential, given that spending on research and development is alarmingly low
compared
to our global partners.
How much do America’s highest income earners make
compared
to the world’s billion poorest individuals?
As costly as they have been, the dislocations of the great recession and the euro crisis pale in significance
compared
to those of the Great Depression.
First, the sustainable growth rate is pitifully low, not more than 2.5% per year,
compared
to 4% in the golden age 1946-72.
In the bad old days, only 7 percent of the Soviet labor force worked in trade,
compared
with 15-20 percent in the West, because trade was considered “unproductive”.
As a result of the global financial crisis, China’s export growth in 2009 dropped by 34%
compared
to 2008.
It took the financial crisis to put the brakes on US borrowing train – America’s current-account deficit has now shrunk to just 3% of its annual income,
compared
to nearly 7% a few years ago.
But, with consumption accounting for 35% of national income
(compared
to 70% in the US!), there is vast room to grow.
Are countries like China willing to step up and pay their fair share of dues to keep the UN running (China currently pays 2.1% of UN dues,
compared
to more than 25% for the US), or to capitalize revised international financial institutions or the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria in a meaningful way?
Today, less than one-fifth of the public trusts the federal government to do the right thing most of the time,
compared
to three-quarters in 1964.
Simply put,
compared
to main-grid solutions, mini-grids are easier to assemble and deploy in hard-to-reach communities and deliver electricity more reliably.
Specifically, 60% of the requests filed in Romania met,
compared
to 31% in France and 24% in Spain.
The secular state and religious groups have cooperated on AIDS prevention – to the extent AIDS affects only about 1% of the population,
compared
to more than 20% in some African countries.
On average, developing countries raise 17% of their GDP in taxes,
compared
with 34% in OECD countries.
According to the International Monetary Fund, during the first decade of this century, annual global growth averaged 3.7%,
compared
to 3.3% in the 1980s and 1990s.
But income disparities in the regions are still substantial in western Europe when
compared
with American states.
Several well-managed, randomized, long-term human trials have shown almost no survival benefit for those who are screened, diagnosed, and treated,
compared
to those who were never screened.
Manufacturing still accounts for 23% of the German economy,
compared
to 12% in the United States and 10% in the United Kingdom.
The US and Japan also have heavier debt burdens: the debt-to-GDP ratio stands at 107% in the US and more than 200% in Japan,
compared
to 90% in the eurozone.
Someone once
compared
my position in forming the first Solidarity government to that of a soldier disarming a minefield.
And, indeed, many of those who have joined the high-wealth group are not from the traditional “rich” countries; on the contrary, the United States, Japan, and Western Europe now have just 66% of the world’s high-wealth households,
compared
with over 90% in 2000.
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