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But those who have enough to spend on luxuries, yet fail to share even a tiny fraction of their income with the poor, must bear some responsibility for the deaths they could have prevented.
In such economies, tradable services cannot absorb more than a fraction of the labor supply.
Given this track record, how will Africa fund even a fraction of the World Bank’s projected requirements?
In developing countries, by contrast, manufacturing has begun to shrink while per capita incomes have been a fraction of that level: Brazil’s deindustrialization began at $5,000, China’s at $3,000, and India’s at $2,000.
The investments needed to make this happen represent a fraction of most donor assistance to low- and middle-income countries, but would have a massive global impact on human development in the long term.
When a couple leaves more than, say, $10 million, some fraction of the excess should go to the Treasury.
Focusing on the latter, we estimate the cost of the reinsurance premium needed to provide protection against shocks at 0.5% of the GDP of the poor countries concerned, or a vanishingly small fraction of global GDP, which can be shared between rich and poor countries.
As for the stock market – widely viewed as a kind of casino for a small fraction of Chinese households – only about 6% of China’s population own shares.
America’s strategy of bilateral trade agreements was aimed at precisely that, but it enlisted only a few countries, representing a fraction of global trade.
Although their current combined GDP is still a relatively small fraction of global output (about 15%), that share is rising rapidly.
Even if his tastes were more lavish, he would be hard-pressed to spend more than a tiny fraction of his wealth.
But with total cryptocurrency values still equal to just a minute fraction of global real-estate wealth, the overall risk remains slight.
Households, burdened with debt while their retirement savings wither and job prospects remain dim, have spent only a fraction of the tax cuts.
And overall asylum claims made by those reaching Australia by any route are only a small fraction of the number that Europe, the United States, and Canada face every year.
The sums lost because poor countries obtain only a fraction of their economic potential are measured in trillions of dollars.
Moreover, China’s expanding military has become a source of bipartisan concern in US national-security circles, even though its defense spending is still but a fraction of America’s (a point often lost amid all the hand-wringing).
But, despite evidence that most diseases have a clear genetic component, only a fraction of the genes that explain them have been found.
If even a fraction of the budgetary windfall received by state media was redirected to independent news organizations, journalism would thrive and the public would be better informed.
There are several alternatives, such as the blended wing body and strut/truss braced wings, which offer major potential increases in lift-to-drag ratio and improvements in structural weight fraction.
The cost of this effort would be a fraction of what the US would spend on even a single large-scale demonstration project.
In current dollars, each cost about $200 billion – a mere fraction of what the United States has paid for the Iraq war, and less than the cost implied by the rise in oil prices over the past year.
But they should allocate a small fraction – say, 20% – of their resources to research that is not tied to specific goals.
The US was founded as a representative democracy, but only a small fraction of its citizens – mostly white male property owners – were eligible to vote.
These figures represent only a tiny fraction of the relentless assault on women occurring worldwide – one that is not confined by boundaries of wealth, culture, age, race, or geography.
But most workers are not covered by such plans, and the biggest beneficiaries have been CEOs and top managers, a significant fraction of whose pay is tied to productivity, as reflected in profits and stock performance.
But this is still smaller than Japan’s 4.6 million and a fraction of the 19.2 million rich households in the United States.
Insurance was scarce and the government offered only limited help, providing a mere fraction of the aid that was actually needed.
Similarly, while many countries are told to privatize social security, America's public social security system is efficient (with transactions costs a fraction of private annuities), and customers are responsive to it.
While the US Social Security System now faces a problem with under-funding, so do a large fraction of America's private pension programs.
It is instructive that, although Africa accounts for only a small fraction of China’s foreign investment, it has received nearly half of China’s total foreign aid.
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