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Girls with secondary education are up to six times less likely to marry early
compared
to girls with little or no education.
The film even drew support from the incoming environment minister, Chen Jining, who
compared
it to Rachel Carson’s influential book Silent Spring.
As a result of the decision, outside spending in the 2016 election cycle reached nearly $1.4 billion in 2016,
compared
less than $100 million in the 2006 cycle.
News consumers are twice as likely to express the most trust in local broadcast and cable news
compared
to social media, attesting to voters’ reliance on television journalism to inform their thinking.
In 2012, the aggregate fiscal deficit in the eurozone is expected to be slightly above 3% of GDP,
compared
to more than 8% in the US.
These principles are especially true in places like China’s rural Xinjiang province, where life expectancy is stunted at 67 years
(compared
to 73.5 for China as a whole), and lack of access to health care undermines well-being.
Compared
with other emerging economies, China is cut from a different cloth.
Life expectancy is close to 80 years in the Nordic countries,
compared
to 78 years in the US, where the government does not guarantee national health insurance and millions of families are too poor to pay for it on their own.
National saving in the Nordic countries averages more than 20% of national income,
compared
to around 10% in the US.
In 2014, 86% of children were immunized against diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis,
compared
to less than 5% in 1974.
China’s inward FDI fell 1.2% in the first seven months of 2006, after a 0.5% decline in 2005, while combined investment from Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan plummeted 31% in the first half of 2006,
compared
to the 6.5% decline in 2005.
According to OECD estimates, China’s current expenditure on R&D amounts to only 1.3% of GDP,
compared
to 3.2% in Japan and an average of 2.5-2.6% in South Korea, Taiwan, and the United States.
For Australia, which counts China as its most important trade partner, the share is 28%,
compared
to just 7% for the US, Australia’s third-largest export market.
Its impact, both actual and potential, is relatively limited when
compared
to ongoing attempts to enhance and democratize lending, borrowing, investing, and payments and settlements.
But Foshan is in a reasonably strong position to manage its local-government debt, because its fixed-capital investments since 2004 have amounted to roughly 30% of GDP,
compared
to 70% for some other local governments.
In the 22 years since the Berlin Wall fell, 28 new border walls have been constructed around the world,
compared
to only 11 in the 44-year period from the end of World War II until 1989.
Cleverly, Norway pays out the funds to Brazil only upon proven success in avoiding deforestation
(compared
with an agreed baseline).
Moreover, two weeks later, all these markets outside of China were down from 4.3% to 7.8%
compared
to their close on February 26.
But bilateral trade amounted to only $18.4 billion in 2011-2012 – far smaller than India-China trade and a pittance
compared
to Japan-China trade.
According to the Reinharts’ paper, when
compared
to the decade that precedes financial crises like the one that started three years ago, “GDP growth and housing prices are significantly lower and unemployment higher” in the subsequent “ten-year window.”
The consumer benefits of this technology are large relative to its price: the cost of each year’s latest computer, tablet, or smartphone is trivial
compared
to the cost of a new car in 1950.
Kyiv today cannot be
compared
to Sarajevo a century ago.
For those who remember the show “All in the Family,” she might be usefully
compared
to Archie Bunker, the crude proletarian patriarch from Queens, New York.
Across Sub-Saharan Africa, tax revenues account for less than one-fifth of GDP,
compared
to more than one-third in OECD countries.
per ton-kilometer,
compared
to the average of $0.01-$0.05
Moreover, Africa has the world’s fastest-growing population – and the youngest, with more than half under 20 years old,
compared
to 28% in China.
They are also more educated, with 40% of 16-24 year olds having completed high school,
compared
with only 27% of the 45-and-older group.
And policy uncertainty in the United States is nothing
compared
to the UK, where businesses face the twin disruptions of Brexit and (potentially) a Labour government led by the far-left Jeremy Corbyn.
In the 17 quarters since “recovery” began, annualized growth in real personal consumption expenditures has averaged just 2.2%,
compared
to a pre-crisis trend of 3.6% from 1996 to 2007.
Although this reflects a decline from the 2011 peak of 57%, the long-term trend is upward: the average shortfall was 41% in 2005-2010,
compared
to 37% in 2000-2005.
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