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In northern Europe, and especially Scandinavia, upwards of 70% of women work,
compared
to less than half in southern Europe.
Compared
to the Great Hanshin Earthquake, reconstruction after the Great East Japan Earthquake is moving at a snail’s pace.
Indeed, while the latter is rare
compared
to the former, such attacks have made this year one of the costliest years for US troops since the “surge” of 2007-2008.
The implications vary, with a much higher probability of adaptation, including through a relatively orderly process of creative destruction and re-creation, for private entities
compared
to public ones.
When a descendant of the cell is infected with a virus, the sequence will be
compared
to the viral genome.
Welcome as these initiatives are, the number of animals in circuses and zoos is tiny
compared
to the tens of billions of animals suffering in factory farms.
According to recent BEA estimates, real (inflation-adjusted) GDP grew at a 2.7% average annual rate in 2013,
compared
to only 2% in 2012.
Meanwhile, state and local-government budgets are improving, and the federal budget is on track to subtract only about 0.5% from GDP in 2014,
compared
to 1.75% in 2013.
In November, this ratio had fallen to 2.7,
compared
to 1.8 before the recession began (and just 1.1 in 2000).
Given that the costs are paid once, but the benefits are annual, the total cost of $18 million should be
compared
to a total present value of all future benefits of at least $12 billion, with each dollar producing $663 of social benefits.
In fact, the 30-year inflation-indexed US government bond yield as of May 4 was only 0.86%,
compared
with more than 4% in the year 2000.
For Asia, which is relatively poor in resources
compared
to the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa, the rising cost of commodities, driven in part by emerging-market growth, is a cause for concern.
Mugabe remained President and Tsvangirai – who won 47% of the vote in the March 2008 elections,
compared
to Mugabe’s 43% – became Prime Minister.
Indeed, in September alone, China’s foreign-currency reserves increased by almost $100 billion
compared
to August.
However, when
compared
with the US, the ESDP (in Chinese eyes) cares far more about international legitimacy, backed by the authority of the UN.
Even the fact that these promises, though plentiful, were mostly inexpensive (certainly
compared
to those of the opposition) was not used to convey a commitment to fiscal responsibility.
In the advanced G20 economies, average real wages grew by a mere 0.4% in 2017,
compared
to 1.7% growth in 2015.
Europe’s recent growth performance has been dismal, especially
compared
to that of the United States, which suffered from the same shock six years ago but has experienced a much stronger recovery in output and employment.
This is an important reform, given that the average schooling of people over 25 is only 6.5 years in Turkey,
compared
to an OECD average of more than 11.
Similarly, 78% of Kurds rejected polygamy,
compared
to just 49% of both Shi’ites and Sunnis.
He could then present an estimated price tag for phasing in these changes over time, and demonstrate that the costs would be modest
compared
to the enormous benefits.
I recently
compared
this situation to that of a hurricane zone like the Florida Keys.
From 1974 to 1981, Latin America’s economy grew at an average annual rate of 4.1%,
compared
to its annual 2.8% historical average, owing to the 1970s oil-price spike.
And, since ascending to power after his father’s death last December, he has constantly been
compared
to the Kim dynasty’s progenitor.
At the CDF, he stressed how different the situation is now,
compared
to 1972, when he and then-President Richard Nixon first met with Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai.
South Korea’s Public and Private Infrastructure Investment Management Center has reduced infrastructure spending by 35%; today, officials reject 46% of the proposed projects they review,
compared
to 3% previously.
The death toll in Everest’s worst-ever disaster was small compared, for example, to last year’s collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, which killed more than 1,100 workers.
Compared
to the five years before the euro’s launch in 1999, productivity growth has since slowed in Italy, Germany, Spain, and the Netherlands, while over the same period it accelerated or remained constant in Denmark, Sweden, and the UK, the European Union members that remained out.
There has been a surge in euro-denominated international bonds, but the liquidity of foreign-exchange markets is no higher for the euro
compared
to the national currencies it replaced, and the euro remains a long way from challenging the supremacy of the dollar.
That is small
compared
to the cost of the 2008 financial crisis, which has left output in several advanced economies 10-15% below pre-crisis trend levels.
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