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In recent years, the US absorbed
half
the world’s capital exports, while China provided one-fifth of the total.
Insuring the WorstIn the nearly six months since Hurricane Katrina destroyed
half
of New Orleans, many storm victims’ expectations of help have been dashed, creating a legacy of bitterness.
Japanese culture produced enormous blockages to employing
half
the population – women.
All of these advances ostensibly should have boosted productivity; and yet, in the United States, a world leader in technological innovation, business-sector labor productivity growth in 2004-2014 averaged less than
half
the rate of the previous decade.
With those goals ostensibly accomplished, Bush’s successor, Barack Obama, reduced troop levels in the country, even declaring a year and a
half
ago that the war was “coming to a responsible conclusion.”
Consider not just Brexit and the election of Trump, but also Catalan separatists’ game of economic Russian roulette over the past month and a
half.
How to Prevent the UK’s Self-DestructionLONDON – If you were a Briton who had been stuck in Antarctica for the past year and a half, you might be forgiven for wishing you had stayed put.
In this regard, however, the stock-market bubble that developed in the first
half
of the year should be viewed as an exception.
Yandex bought ads in about
half
the subway cars, saying, “The operator does not give consultations… so please address your questions to Yandex.”
Consumers, seeing the pound depreciate, front-loaded their spending in the second
half
of last year, because they understood that import prices would rise.
The top tax rate on wage income was cut in
half
during her tenure as prime minister, falling from over 80% when she took office to 40%.
But this approach addresses only
half
of the equation.
Considering that the Italian 58% includes the unemployed, only about
half
of Italians of working age are now working or even looking for work.
True, a small part of the near
half
of the population who officially do not work are employed in the underground economy, but this is small consolation; certainly it is not in those sectors that the future of the Italian economy is to be found.
To be sure, large swaths of Venezuelan society rightly felt excluded from the country’s cozy elite consensus and insular governing arrangements, and resented it immensely; but an aspiring middle class comprised roughly
half
the population.
Sri Lanka’s Chinese ElectionNEW DELHI – Sri Lanka’s parliamentary election this month promises to shape not only the country’s political future, but also geopolitics in the wider Indian Ocean region, a global center of trade and energy flows that accounts for
half
of the world’s container traffic and 70% of its petroleum shipments.
Indeed, it still represents roughly
half
of Venezuela’s electorate.
While stock markets continue to reach new highs, the US economy grew at an average rate of just 2% in the first
half
of 2017 – slower growth than under President Barack Obama – and is not expected to perform much better for the rest of the year.
The price of oil, the country’s main export, has dropped by
half
since December.
So, lower participation in the labor force explains
half
of the difference, and longer vacations for those who do work accounts for the other
half.
Do the same in Germany, Italy, Australia and France and you eliminate
half
the generational imbalance.
Labor-market experts thus consider the unemployment rate a potentially misleading indicator, because a youth unemployment rate of 50% does not mean that
half
of the young population is unemployed.
As a result, the US current-account deficit in 2013 had narrowed by
half
in dollar terms from its 2006 peak, and from 5.8% of GDP to 2.4%.
And yet the deterioration in the US international investment position over this period was not much more than
half
of that amount ($5.7 trillion if measured relative to the revised estimate for 1981).
If true investment income were double what is reported, the difference was reinvested abroad in the years 1982-2000, and those assets were discovered by 2014, that would explain about
half
of the upward revision in the US net international investment position.
By some estimates, East African farmers have lost up to 60% of their livestock – their main source of income – in the first
half
of 2017.
So far, with
half
the year gone, only about a third of this sum has been raised.
Assuming that EMU flies, i.e. that the hard core union including Germany, France, the Benelux, Austria and a few more countries - is realized in 1999, Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic will find that nearly
half
of their exports will be with EMU countries.
But it will also have serious repercussions for Pakistan, where a number of shocks in the second
half
of 2017 have destabilized the country politically.
2.Time and chance inevitably lead to the concentration of wealth in the hands of a relatively small group: call them “the rich.”3.The economy’s growth rate falls as the low-hanging fruit of industrialization is picked; meanwhile, the net savings rate rises, owing to a rollback of progressive taxation, the end of the chaotic destruction of the first
half
of the twentieth century, and the absence of compelling sociological reasons for the rich to spend their incomes or their wealth rather than save it.
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