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A key reason is that it has put a growing proportion of its working-age population to work: unemployment is today at a record low of less than 3%, and almost 80% of those who could work have a job,
compared
to about 70% for Europe and the US.
A decade ago, when the first Nord Stream pipeline deal was announced, Poland’s then-foreign minister, Radek Sikorski,
compared
the venture to the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (the non-aggression treaty between Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Union).
Investment-to-income ratios were higher as well for open economies, by an average of 5.4%
compared
to closed economies, thereby boosting growth indirectly.
The IMF’s recent flagship report raised its projection for world GDP growth for 2017 from 3.4% to 3.5%,
compared
to the estimated rate of 3.1% for 2016.
Spain and Greece, for example, have each accepted only about 4,000 – a meager amount, when
compared
to Jordan or Lebanon.
Compared
to US manufacturing value added of $2.1 trillion, Mexico’s $50 billion is a paltry sum.
This is on top of large increases in life expectancy already seen: in the United Kingdom, public-service pensioners who stop working at 60 can expect to spend about 40-45% of their adult lives in retirement,
compared
to about one-third for such pensioners in the 1980’s.
Partitioned ethnicities are also much more likely than their non-partitioned counterparts to face institutionalized discrimination from the national government (25%,
compared
to 15%).
To be sure, the European Parliament elections have been bringing smaller shares of voters to the polls: 43% in 2009,
compared
to almost 60% in 1978-1994.
If, for example, the Socialists won 215 seats,
compared
to 185 for the EPP, the substantial difference would make their leader, Martin Schultz, a very strong contender, even though no party came close to an absolute majority of 376 seats.
Certainly, if there ever is a pause in China’s heady growth, today’s emerging-market turmoil will seem like a mere hiccup
compared
to the earthquake that will ensue.
She
compared
Clermont-Ferrand, the capital of Auvergne, in the center of France, with Paris.
Her evidence suggests that in Clermont-Ferrand, as
compared
to Paris, there is a higher intrinsic demand for starting small businesses.
Hedge funds and other “non-commercial” speculators have increased their long positions to an all-time high of 555,000 of the main oil contracts traded on the New York futures market,
compared
to the previous record of 548,000 contracts, set just before the oil price peaked at $120 in June 2014.
China’s government expenditure on education is approximately 3% of GDP,
compared
to 5.4% in Brazil.
With a tally of 42%, down seven points
compared
to the November 2015 election, the AKP was able to secure 293 of the parliament’s 600 seats.
A new OECD report, The Economic Consequences of Outdoor Air Pollution, estimates that outdoor air pollution will cause 6-9 million premature deaths annually by 2060,
compared
to three million in 2010.
Compared
to a year ago, the probability of “Brexit” has increased, for several reasons.
Much has been made of the reasonable and moderate tone of the Democratic National Convention,
compared
to the “dark,” snarling bombast of the Republicans’ event.
President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and Hillary Clinton herself were paragons of dignity,
compared
to Trump’s Mussolini-like mannerisms and verbal aggression.
Since 2000, sub-Saharan African countries’ annual GDP growth has averaged 5-7%,
compared
to 2.5-3% for the franc zone.
Compared
to just a decade before the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, this represents a significant change in people’s views.
From 2000 to 2013, Germany’s exports grew by 154%,
compared
to 127% for Spain, 98% for the United Kingdom, 79% for France, and 72% for Italy.
To be sure, from 2000 to 2008, German wages increased by 19%,
compared
to 48% in Spain.
From 2009 to 2013, German nominal wages increased by more than 14%,
compared
to 4% in Spain.
Decentralized management has helped German exporters triple their share of the global market for top-quality goods
compared
to those firms that did not reorganize.
Cristina loves being
compared
to Hillary.
The proportion of women participating in the global labor force has hovered around 50% since 1990,
compared
to more than 75% for men.
Its average per capita GDP was 39% above that of the other EU countries, and on average the unemployment rate stood at 6.7%,
compared
to 8% elsewhere in the old EU.
On average the share of state employment in the workforce across Scandinavia is 32.7%,
compared
to only 18.5% on average in the non-Scandinavian countries of the EU-15.
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