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It is small, too,
compared
to the difference in economic performance between successful catch-up countries – such as China – and other countries that have enjoyed the same access to global markets but have performed less well for other reasons.
And 70% of Indian respondents –
compared
to just 21% of Australian respondents – agreed with the statement: “When a mother works for pay, the children suffer.”
Moreover, unemployment is low
compared
to the Western world, because the unproductive distribution sector absorbs young people who cannot find better jobs.
Across the poorest countries, total spending on education averages just $80 per child per year –
compared
to more than $8,000 per child in the advanced economies – and can be as low as $24 annually (in the DRC).
According to the World Bank, developing countries spend an average of 3-4 % of GDP on infrastructure every year,
compared
to an estimated 7% of GDP required to meet existing infrastructure needs for maintaining rapid growth.
Still, SOEs and SWFs have limited experience in the tech sector, and their corporate culture is rather rigid
compared
to the companies they are targeting.
Unit labor costs in the four southern countries increased by 36%, 28%, 30%, and 25%, respectively, from 2000 to 2010,
compared
to less than 5% in Germany, resulting in an end-2010 cumulative divergence above 30% in Greece and more than 20% in Portugal, Italy, and Spain.
And neither amounted to a “threat to democracy” when
compared
to President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s proposal to pack the Supreme Court with additional justices who would uphold his economic program.
Thomas Jefferson
compared
knowledge to candles: when one is used to light another, it does not diminish the light of the first.
Unfortunately, $1.5 billion is little better than what charity could do – and still only a drop in the bucket
compared
to the extent of the damage.
Of course,
compared
to Japan’s two “lost decades” since 1990, even this year’s triple disaster pales in significance.
The cost of services
compared
to the cost of goods depends on productivity.
Women still lag in leadership positions, holding only 5% of top corporate positions and a minority of positions in elected legislatures (just 16% in the US, for example,
compared
to 45% in Sweden).
Grozny was totally destroyed during the first Chechen war; both Russian and foreign observers
compared
it with WWII Stalingrad and assumed that it would be impossible to restore the city.
The youth employment-to-population ratio was about 27% in the Arab countries in 2008,
compared
to 53% in East Asia.
Though it seems significantly smaller than pre-crisis levels as a share of GDP – almost 4%, at the latest monthly rates,
compared
to 10% in 2007 – it has returned to its peak in absolute terms.
And the average British farm is 41 hectares,
compared
to New Zealand’s 250-hectare farms.
The result has been average annual GDP growth of 9.5%
(compared
to a 2.9% global average) since 1978, which raised China’s share of global GDP from 1.8% to 18.2% and lifted 740 million people out of poverty.
Only 4% of arable and permanent cropland is irrigated,
compared
to 39% in South Asia and 29% in East Asia.
Fertilizer use in Africa amounts to just 13 kilograms per hectare,
compared
to 90 kilograms in South Asia and 190 kilograms in East Asia.
Using the most recent exchange rates, T3 cost only $3.86 billion
compared
with $8.6 billion for London’s T5.
The result will be a prioritized list of solutions, showing which projects promise the greatest benefits
compared
to their costs.
For example, MIT Technology Review recently
compared
the findings of 19 major studies examining predicted job losses, and found that forecasts for the number of globally “destroyed” jobs vary from 1.8 million to two billion.
As a result,
compared
to the regional development banks, the Bank will be lending less to fee-paying clients, who provide income, and engaging in more “concessional lending,” which does not.
According to Eurostat data published in April 2011, the hourly labor cost in France was €34.2,
compared
to €30.1 in Germany – and nearly 20% higher than the eurozone average of €27.6.
Within the next 15 years, OPEC countries will account for 50% of global oil production,
compared
to only 42% today.
Still, India’s spends only 1.2% of its GDP on higher education,
compared
to 3.1% in the US or, closer to home, 2.4% in South Korea.
In February, he
compared
his disdain for Cambodia’s media to Trump’s distrust of the mainstream media in the US.
Indeed, he suggests that today’s technological innovations pale in significance
compared
to earlier advances like electricity, running water, the internal combustion engine, and other breakthroughs that are now more than a century old.
In Mexico, for example, mortgage debt represents less than 10% of GDP,
compared
to about 50% of GDP in Europe and 82% of GDP in the US – a ratio that has increased more than fourfold in the last two decades.
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