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But, at the same time, more than 16 million hectares of pastures and degraded land – an area half the size of Germany – have been abandoned in the Amazon alone, owing to poor agricultural practices and land use.
Consumer spending in China now accounts for just 36% of GDP, about half the consumption share of GDP in the United States and Western Europe.
More than half of Pakistan’s population is under the age of 25; theirs is the generation with the potential to drive progress and prosperity in the country – if, of course, they receive the education they deserve.
But while it is hard to deny that such measures are necessary, it is no less necessary to remember the other half of the phrase: "security and freedom."
The Future of EuropeCAMBRIDGE – In the first half of the last century, Europe tore itself apart in two wars and destroyed its central role in world politics.
In the second half of the century, farsighted leaders looked beyond revenge and gradually constructed the institutions of European integration.
Europe also dispenses half of the world’s foreign assistance, compared to 20% for the US.
Because the government parties control barely more than half of the Bundestag, they no longer overwhelm the opposition, rendering it irrelevant.
The price of maize, half of which is imported from the US, more than doubled in a year, primarily because of production of bio-ethanol.
At IQor, the hugely successful outsourcing entrepreneur Vikas Kapoor now has 12 US locations, which account for half of its 11,000 employees.
Such atrophy of critical thinking and unprecedented information naivete make it possible for a politically and financially motivated press to manipulate a good half of the voters.
Perhaps as a result, support for independence in Catalonia appears to be far broader, with about half of the region’s residents saying that they support secession.
And almost half of all CEOs surveyed believe that “business will be the single most important actor in delivering the SDGs.”
The Global Partnership for Education has been one of the leading catalysts in educating girls over the past decade and a half.
The opportunity to buy or sell has also become much more inclusive: half of Airbnb hosts in the United States have low to moderate incomes, and 90% of hosts globally rent their primary residence.
With nearly half of all services jobs in the OECD at risk of automation, the sharing economy can smooth the disruption caused to displaced workers as they upgrade their skills.
According to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, almost half of the benefits from Trump’s proposed tax cuts would go to the top 1% of income earners.
It will be lucky if it manages to achieve 2.8%, one half of that expected in Bangladesh and one-third of that projected for India.
And, though a vast majority of respondents said that Germany is an attractive destination for skilled migrants, more than half thought that migration laws should be reformed.
Propelled by demand and outsourcing from advanced economies, emerging markets won a growing share of the soaring trade in goods; by 2014, they accounted for more than half of global trade flows.
China’s trade surplus might shrink by half of that amount (with cuts in trade surpluses also spread over other global regions), meaning a shift in Chinese GNP toward internal demand and away from net exports equal to between 5% and 10% of China’s GNP.
Roughly half of the refugees now in Uganda are from South Sudan, where a civil war has been raging intermittently since December 2013.
In 2007, Uganda supported the disastrous US-backed Ethiopian invasion of Somalia, which nearly flattened the capital Mogadishu, causing more than half of the city’s population to flee.
With more than half of these countries’ populations below the age of 30, political development has been able to move forward despite the recalcitrance of entrenched elites.
The Turkish lira has lost nearly half of its value over the last 12 months.
Because fuel cells are about twice as efficient as internal combustion engines, the effective cost per unit of distance would be about half that.
So why were these two foundation stones of the revolution in biology and medicine that dominated science in the second half of the 20th century uncovered in a British physics lab?
By the middle of the century – unless there is a dramatic turnaround – about half the population will be economically inactive for reasons of age.
Closing the US-Europe Technology GapIn the second half of the 1990's, Europe's average annual growth rate of productivity amounted to 0.7%, while the US hummed along at 1.4%.
The Pentagon's budget is not simply big: it accounts for more than one half of all US government spending on research and development: in France, defense spending is only around a quarter of the total.
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