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More problematic, school-based surveys in low- and middle-income countries typically exclude those who are not in school, whether because they
dropped
out or never enrolled at all.
Today, overall support for the EU stands at 57%, and the share of people unhappy with it has
dropped
to 15%.
Britain
dropped
out of the Gold Standard early, in 1931, so that it could ease monetary conditions and reduce interest rates, and it did better than countries that delayed the exit until later.
Since the onset of the crisis, Greek wages have
dropped
by more than 15% – a process called, appropriately enough, internal devaluation.
In the first four months of 2014, housing sales
dropped
by nearly 7% year on year, with construction of new floor area falling by more than 22%.
The number of people joining political parties has
dropped
sharply as ideological identification with either the left or the right has waned.
Remove China, which experienced particularly rapid wage growth, and annual growth in global wages
dropped
from 1.6% to a mere 0.9%.
The financial damage did not stop at the country's borders; as a direct result of the slowdown in Japan, automobile production
dropped
by some 20% in Thailand, 50% in China, and 70% in India.
But, unfortunately, the final negotiations
dropped
the one number that truly matters for the future of our planet: zero.
While the net-zero objective was
dropped
by the negotiators in Paris, it should be endorsed by individual countries in their plans, reinforced by the G-20, and eventually enshrined in the UN agreement.
The rhetoric of reform was
dropped
as President Kibaki handed out title deeds of national trust and parkland to gain votes.
Once Britain
dropped
out of the talks, a bilateral Franco-German deal was easily arranged.
Fukuda has
dropped
Abe’s talk about an “arch of freedom” – an effort to forge a bloc with the United States, Australia, and India.
CAR’s Muslim population has
dropped
from an estimated 15% to less than 5%.
In the United States, the number of full-time journalists has
dropped
by 20% since 2001.
And, just as the speed of reliable sequencing continues to increase, the price of sequencing has
dropped
precipitously, and will soon amount to just a few hundred dollars.
It shows that current conditions are good, but that expectations about future conditions have
dropped
off significantly.
Almost 2,000 children in Gaza have
dropped
out of school in the last five months.
Real disposable income per capita
dropped
precipitously in 2009-2012, and remains below pre-crisis levels, which were already below the prevailing levels prior to Italy’s adoption of the euro.
Indeed, with the average household savings rate having
dropped
recently to below 4%, too many families are in the process of exhausting their cushions of emergency cash, if they have not done so already.
Indeed, new research finds that 100 Hiroshima-size nuclear bombs
dropped
on urban centers in India and Pakistan would jeopardize more than one-seventh of the world’s population.
South Korea’s GDP growth
dropped
from 7-8% in the 1970s and 1980s to 4% in the 2000s.
Over the next four years, annual US spending on information technology equipment and software roared upward, from $281 billion to $446 billion, the US unemployment rate
dropped
from 5.6% to 4%, and the economy grew at a 4.3% real annual rate as the high-tech spending boom pulled extra workers out of unemployment and into jobs.
Over the next two years, annual US spending on residential construction roared upward, from $624 billion to $798 billion, the US unemployment rate
dropped
from 5.7% to 4.6%, and the economy grew at a 3.1% real annual rate.
With subsidies and negative incentives gone, Costa Rica’s cattle population
dropped
by a third, taking pressure off grazing lands.
In the last few years, when world prices for oil and gas
dropped
and could no longer bring the desired funds, the state resorted first to high inflation and then to excessive internal and external borrowing.
Since Abenomics was launched, the “deflation gap” (the difference between actual and potential output) has
dropped
from roughly three percentage points to below 1.5.
Simultaneously, fertility rates
dropped
to 1.4 per woman.
We found that, although China’s urban unemployment rate was probably quite high in 2005, standing at 10.7%, it has most likely
dropped
over the last decade, reaching 7% in 2012.
Malnourishment has
dropped
by more than half, from 35% of the world’s population to under 16%.
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