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Since each issuer represented a small
fraction
of their revenues, rating agencies were unwilling to compromise their reputation for the sake of any single issuer.
But total funds pledged by all sources are only a small
fraction
of what is urgently needed.
As it stands, such countries receive just a
fraction
of the $3,000-5,000 per refugee required annually to provide adequate housing, food, health care, schooling, and job training during the first few years of displacement.
In many regions around the world, crop yields are only a
fraction
of US levels – even in agricultural zones with similar climate, soils, and other production conditions.
India’s current policies allow drugs to be sold at a small
fraction
of the monopoly prices commanded by patent holders.
The developing world, alas, contributes only a tiny
fraction
of worldwide scientific advance, and the major drug companies generally lack the market incentives to invest in diseases afflicting the poor people of the developing world.
The result was a massive reduction in global inequality, as capital flowed to places where wage levels were a tiny
fraction
of those in Western democracies.
Of those who do, a minute
fraction
actually tries to carry them out, and only a tiny number of those succeed.
If domestic spending simply stays constant as a
fraction
of national income, the cumulative budget outcome for the next ten years will be a combined deficit of $1.5 trillion.
There are about three billion SNPs in the human genome, of which the personalized genetic testing companies each cover a
fraction.
The relevant provision has been used very rarely, but the few precedents suggest that Trump’s tariffs might be legally justifiable, even if only a small
fraction
of steel output is actually used for tanks and warships.
Many other developing countries use an even smaller
fraction
of their per capita share of the atmosphere.
Developing country producers, who in an earlier era accounted for a relatively small
fraction
of global demand, became major consumers.
The animals burn up most of that food’s energy just to breathe and keep their bodies warm, so we end up with a small
fraction
– usually no more than one-third and sometimes as little as one-tenth – of the food value that we feed them.
But these funds, while vital, are not nearly sufficient, and only a tiny
fraction
will go toward education provision.
In February 2016, the Supporting Syria and the Region conference in London attracted $1.4 billion in pledges for education, but only a
fraction
of those funds have so far made it to the front lines.
But that woefully small 1% figure means that the world simply does not have enough to ensure that more than a
fraction
of affected children get help.
Africa’s towns and cities have been growing at some of the world’s fastest rates, but their absolute size is so small that they can absorb only a
fraction
of all new workers.
Making matters worse, only a
fraction
of the new borrowing enabled by the mutualization of liability will be factored into national budgets.
Meanwhile, consumers who held a substantial
fraction
of their wealth in housing were forced to revise their consumption plans in the face of declining values.
Governments could raise taxes to cover a larger
fraction
of the required expenditures.
In its rush to have westerners buy the banks, the IMF forgot one detail: to ensure that South Korea could recapture at least a
fraction
of those gains through taxation.
But while researchers created impressive global climate models in recent years, they are the first to admit that such models can include only a
fraction
of the many physical forces that together determine the climate and global mean temperature.
It is risible to think that European governments will be able to deport, or “repatriate” in diplomacy-speak, any substantial
fraction
of these arrivals.
Similarly, intelligent transportation systems for roads can double or triple the use of an asset – typically at a
fraction
of the cost of adding the equivalent in physical capacity.
One is that they are very costly; or, more accurately, the price charged for them is very high, though the cost of producing them is but a
fraction
of that amount.
Some manufacturing will move out of China, and Africa has a chance of capturing some
fraction
of it.
The EU should fund the Airbus project and make sure that an important
fraction
of the money goes into R&D to foster the growth of an industry that is one of the few European high-tech success stories.
No Islamist armies are about to march into Europe – indeed, most victims of Revolutionary Islamism live in the Middle East, not in Europe – and Ahmadinejad, his nasty rhetoric notwithstanding, does not have a
fraction
of Hitler’s power.
Studies on exchange rate pass-through suggest that US consumers would only see a small
fraction
of the cost change.
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