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Moreover, China accounts for
half
of the global increase of 1.5 billion people earning between $2-13 a day in the past 20 years.
A government insurance program would pay these people a fraction, say, half, the difference between their old pay and their pay in a new job for a specified period, such as two years.
But from that date up to 2006 it raced ahead and, on average, employees in financial firms were paid between a third and a
half
more than similarly qualified counterparts elsewhere.
More than one
half
of living Egyptians were born since Mubarak assumed office.
According to a recent report by the UN Development Program, roughly
half
of those between 15 and 30 years old dream of emigrating to Europe, North America, or Australia.
A half-century of working together, plus a decade and a
half
of adapting to new threats and demands, is paying off.
Half
of Ukraine’s population is Russian-speaking in various degrees.
At Nanyang Technological University, females comprised only 27% of the undergraduate computer-science program in 2015-2016, despite accounting for
half
of all undergraduates at the university.
When we began the program, only about
half
of the women we worked with said they felt empowered in their homes; many feared their husbands.
For example, European banks hold more than a €1 trillion ($1.3 trillion) of Spanish debt, with German and French banks holding more than
half
of that sum.
Because the premiums are intimately interconnected with the banks’ capital deficiencies,
half
a solution is not good enough.
According to my own calculations in a series of research papers with Maurice Obstfeld, the trade-weighted dollar would likely fall by 20% if a global demand shift (say, due to a US housing recession) were to cut the US trade deficit in
half.
As if to prove that it understood the impropriety involved, the Troika compelled Greece’s government to immunize the HFSF board members from criminal prosecution for not participating in the new share offer and for the resulting disappearance of
half
of the taxpayers’ €41 billion capital injection.
Just 20 years ago, about
half
of Indonesians were poor, whereas in 2014 (the most recent estimate) shows just over 8%, or 21 million people, below the $1.90/day threshold.
Sharp increases in public debt, which has reached 50% of GDP in nearly
half
of Sub-Saharan countries, are particularly worrying.
This distinct genealogy contributed to the fact that after 1989 the real priorities of the Union was not the rapid reunification of Europe but rather deepening integration of its western half, and protecting itself from possible destabilizing effects of radical geopolitical changes.
The final compromise was based on a tacit understanding that EU enlargement would not be possible before the second
half
of the next decade.
In other words, replacement of the 20 resigned Commissioners by a wholly new Commission approved by the Member States and endorsed by the European Parliament, could take several more months, and might not be complete until the second
half
of the year.
"Free" education is not really free, because a university student from out of town must pay for accommodation, food, and other services -- in Poland these costs are equal to a sum larger than
half
of the average salary.
If a general social agreement along these lines, with the state viewed not as a facilitator of private transactions but as the benevolent protector of the people, emerges in Eastern Europe, we are likely to end up
half
in the old world and
half
in the new.
In the second
half
of the twentieth century, Europe had the chance to build a much more benevolent form of regionalism.
Though second-quarter GDP growth was weak — the euro-zone average was only 0.3% year on year – third-quarter data are indicating a sustained economic pick-up in the second
half
of the year.
Little more than
half
of the region’s population has access to electricity, and only around 3% of power generation currently crosses borders (based on current capacity levels).
In previous elections, younger voters have turned out in greater numbers than their elders, leading some to predict that
half
of the voters will be in the 16-to-29 age bracket.
Its proponents forget the experience of the first
half
of the twentieth century, when authoritarian modernization was tried in both Germany and Russia –with disastrous results.
The Forgotten
Half
of the African SkyNAIROBI - In Kenya, my home country, there is a popular saying that when two elephants fight, it's the grass that suffers.
As Thomas Sankara, the man Compaore overthrew in 1987 to become President of Burkina Faso, “Women hold up the other
half
of the sky.”
For a few decades in the second
half
of the twentieth century, the West’s dominant position was challenged by the Soviet Union and China.
Half
of the Guard's divisions are lighter forces with more foot soldiers for street-fighting, but the rest are armored or mechanized and thus depend on tanks and combat carriers that can be easily targeted with precision weapons.
On the contrary, there will be less than
half
as many, not more than 700 in total.
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