Fraction
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With lower wages, more jobs are created, because employers find it profitable to realize a larger
fraction
of the blueprints on their tables and the ideas in their heads.
In truth, rising life expectancy and growing health-care costs mean that today’s elderly have contributed only a
fraction
of what they expect to receive from Social Security and Medicare.
At the session, I asked Caplin about his effort, starting with his co-authored 1997 book Housing Partnerships, which proposed allowing homebuyers to buy only a
fraction
of a house, thereby reducing their risk exposure without putting taxpayers at risk.
Although this represents a small
fraction
of the effort needed from industrialized countries to fulfill the Kyoto Protocol’s goals by 2012, it would help significantly in improving forest and land use in Africa.
China’s economy is still only a
fraction
of the size of America’s, and the Fed’s ability to expand its balance sheet is effectively unlimited.
Yet unemployment levels in Germany and the Netherlands are a
fraction
of those prevailing in France.
Moreover, tacit knowledge is vast and growing, so that only a miniscule
fraction
of it fits in anybody’s head.
Yet up-to-date data exist for only a small
fraction
of the indicators that were developed to assess progress on the 17 SDGs – including the more than 40 that directly relate to gender equality.
Even if there is a problem, it can easily be fixed; spending a
fraction
of the money that went into Bush’s two tax cuts would have fixed Social Security for 75 years; slight benefit cuts, adjusting the age of retirement, or minor adjustments in the level of contributions could fix the system permanently.
This level of spending (per death) is a tiny
fraction
of the research spending on "rich-country" diseases, such as asthma.
Again, the amount of scientific research to study tropical agricultural is a tiny
fraction
of the research expenditures to study "rich-country" agriculture in the temperate climate.
Only a small
fraction
of species that live in oceans have been discovered and documented.
With less than 1% of ocean space protected, and only a small
fraction
affected by well-considered government policies or international treaties, opportunities abound to improve the oceans’ health.
So far, such measures affect only a small
fraction
of the $305 trillion in assets held by banks, investors, financial institutions, and individuals in the global financial system.
Most village primary schools are used for education only a small
fraction
of the time.
To be sure, only a small
fraction
of college-age Chinese students attend universities overseas.
Here, too, Europe has led the way, providing more assistance to developing countries than anyone else (and at a markedly higher
fraction
of its GDP than the US).
But this tightening by a
fraction
of a percentage point of GDP implies no adverse effect on growth.
Indeed, just one day after the ECB made its announcement – and weeks before the purchases began – interest rates fell by a
fraction
of a percentage point throughout the eurozone.
As a tourist draw, seen at close quarters in its natural habitat, a manta ray can be worth thousands of dollars; dead on a slab at the quayside, its flesh and gills fetch a
fraction
of that.
Enter shareholder activist David Einhorn, whose hedge fund Greenlight Capital has been pressing Apple to distribute a healthy
fraction
of that cash.
European cohesion funds account for only a
fraction
of a percent of European GDP, whereas about 10% of national income is typically spent on social transfers.
Japan and other developed countries prove that a high standard of living requires only a
fraction
of the energy per dollar of GDP.
They do not contribute significantly to the global economy, and their countries’ health systems function on a tiny
fraction
of what advanced economies devote to their populations’ health.
Only a
fraction
of Germany’s weapons and military vehicles are operational.
But now, with Venezuelan crude below $30 dollars and the country cut off from international capital markets, imports are declining to a
fraction
of their 2012 level.
We are trying to extrapolate the past experience of a small
fraction
of the world population that we have chosen to examine because they made a lot of money.
Little comfort can be taken in the fact that a species survives if it persists only at a
fraction
of its historical abundance, or if it is restricted to a narrow part of where it once thrived.
Today, we produce only a small
fraction
of the energy that we need from solar and wind – 0.7% from wind and just 0.1% from solar.
Indeed, in the sixth year of the current seven-year budget cycle, less than 10% of the funds have been used, and only a
fraction
of that for Roma.
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