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If the gumbo industry goes into decline, driving the US state of Louisiana into a recession, residents will pay fewer federal taxes and receive more fiscal transfers.
In the United States, rare diseases are defined as those that affect fewer than 200,000 people.
It declined to introduce measures aimed at improving OECD rules to free up investment flows, and the new European Commission led by José Manuel Barroso includes fewer pro-market members than during his first term.
A world in which far fewer lives are lost to automobile accidents is possible and entirely within our reach.
The fewer “sovereigns” there are, the easier it will be to secure the necessary cooperation.
During the 2004 hurricane season, the Dominican Republic, which has invested in hurricane shelters and emergency evacuation networks, suffered fewer than ten deaths.
Women begin to marry later and have fewer children, especially as they make inroads into higher education or more remunerative careers.
Health Food Truths“Low-carbohydrate” pasta is in a category of health foods known in the trade as “lesser evils” – foods with fewer unwanted calories, fat, trans fat, sugars, salt, or carbohydrates.
The countries helped by the PMI had 16% fewer deaths in that age group, adding up to about 1.7 million babies’ and toddlers’ lives saved.
That said, it would surely help if we had fewer referendums.
Or interest rates could rise if people expect a much weaker global economy – and, in a weaker global economy with no inflation, investors should be holding more US Treasuries, not fewer.
As of 2010, there were an estimated 1.6 billion Muslims worldwide; there are obviously far fewer Islamist terrorists.
The better-performing emerging markets are those with fewer macroeconomic, policy, and financial weaknesses: South Korea, the Philippines, Malaysia, and other Asian industrial exporters;Poland and the Czech Republic in Europe;Chile, Colombia, Peru, and Mexico in Latin America;Kenya, Rwanda, and a few other economies in Sub-Saharan Africa; and the Gulf oil-exporting countries.
But with fewer and fewer career paths to top positions, resentment among a generation of young, able, and ambitious Russians will only continue to fester.
Fewer and fewer people are bothering to get married, and marriage is regarded less and less as a lifelong union.
Families are having fewer and fewer children, and more and more children are born out of wedlock.
With few friends and even fewer sponsors in the region, Hamas had little choice but to return to its fellow Palestinian.
The ambitious Millennium Villages concept was supposed to create simultaneous progress on multiple fronts, producing “major results in three or fewer years,” according to founder Jeffrey D. Sachs.
In local elections last month, even fewer bothered to participate, with Vladivostok reporting just 13% turnout.
The number of companies issuing sustainability reports has grown from fewer than 30 in the early 1990s to more than 7,000 in 2014.
Yet behind this revulsion there remains some of the hope that brought people into the streets in 1989: a desire for honest, decent, and effective government; a politics with fewer quarrels, accusations, and denunciations; in short, a permanent, velvet revolution in miniature.
This is one reason why there are fewer major economic crises nowadays, and why world GDP, despite a recent slowdown, is growing much faster than it did a century ago.
Fewer foreign purchases of US assets again imply a weaker dollar.
And central banks, when deciding what to hold as reserves, will surely put somewhat fewer of their eggs in the dollar basket.
Likewise, increasing the supply of money relative to a fixed amount of output will lead to a decline in the purchasing power of money, as each currency unit buys fewer goods.
There are few developing countries in the world where this is true, and fewer still where poverty and illiteracy are both rife.
Of those that survive, over a third have changed ownership, concentrating the industry into fewer hands.
If the average natural rate is currently two children per household, then imposing this restriction will ultimately be welfare-reducing: households that would like to have more than two children will not be able to, while the restriction would be irrelevant to those who want fewer than two children.
In 2015, there were just 74 new cases of the disease – 80% fewer than the previous year and the lowest annual total ever.
Humanitarian responses too often give lower priority – and thus far fewer resources – to education than, say, basic health, shelter, and nutrition.
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