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For now, the Saudi economy relies heavily on low-wage and low-productivity foreign workers on limited contracts; indeed, such workers hold more than half the jobs in the country.
On one hand, because it covered only those countries projected to emit roughly half of the world’s greenhouse-gas emissions by mid-century, it was not an effective long-run safeguard against the dangers of global warming.
By the beginning of 2017, 3.7 billion people, or nearly half the world’s population, were online.
The other half are elected directly in so_called majority constituencies.
Thus, increases of 40-50% of GDP risk cutting long-run growth in half in parts of Western Europe, and by one-third in America – a devastating reduction in gains in living standards over the course of a generation.
One example is the Media/Most group which, for reasons unknown, was financed by Gazprom to the tune of more than half a billion dollars!
But we lasted a year and a half, and graduated with those male colleagues to become officers.
Using a more realistic approach, and including monitoring and administration costs, the outlay for governments will still be less than half of the economic benefits.
That is more wealth than is owned by the poorer half of the world’s 7.4 billion people.
Roughly half of this money went to Russia, the Middle East, and North Africa.
During the past three years, the world's leaders have promised concrete action to cut global poverty by one half by the year 2015, in a series of commitments known as the Millennium Development Goals.
While the price of solar panels has fallen by more than half in the last few years, even a $150 entry-level package remains far beyond the means of someone living on less than $2.50 a day.
In fact, Kipling’s poem, “The White Man’s Burden,” which exhorted the white race to spread its values to the “new-caught sullen peoples, half devil and half child,” was not about the British Empire at all, but about the United States.
While many have touted Africa’s success in maintaining a 5-6% average GDP growth rate during the past decade, this masks the reality that by 2005, sub-Saharan Africa was little better off than it was a quarter-century earlier: it was still the world’s poorest region, with just over half of its population living on less than $1.25 a day in purchasing parity terms.
In other words, almost half of what is produced on Africa's farms rots there, while the vast majority of the population goes to bed hungry.
For one-fiftieth of that cost, we could provide essential micronutrients to 2-3 billion people, thereby preventing perhaps a million deaths and making half the world’s population mentally and physically much stronger.
Although 69% of Brazilians have faith in democracy, more than half admit they would “go along” with a non-democratic government so long as it “solved problems.”
In our book, we estimate that if poor households in Chile had the same access to jobs as the middle classes enjoy, the gap between rich and poor would narrow by half.
The International Monetary Fund upgraded the GDP growth outlook of all six of the top ten oil producers that were shown separately in its 2018 forecast update, and the projected growth of world trade volumes was raised half a percentage point this year and next.
Top earners in the US, accounting for half of the global top 1%, reaped a significant share of globalization’s benefits.
In comparison, the United Nations estimates that half that amount could permanently solve all of the world’s major problems: it could ensure clean drinking water, sanitation, basic health care, and education for every single person in the world, now.
In the second half of the nineteenth century, Japan became Asia’s first modern economic success story.
More than half of their investments are in industries exposed to the dangers of climate change; less than 2% are in low-carbon intensive industries.
The price of coal, for example, has plunged to around half of its peak level, with plenty of room remaining on the downside.
Around 40% of Pakistanis live below the poverty line, half the population is illiterate, and, among those who are literate, many have been schooled in Wahhabi-funded madrasas.
Asia’s share of global energy consumption has doubled in the past 30 years, and its buildings’ share of energy use is growing at similar rates, with China and India alone constructing more than half of all the world’s new floor space.
The TAP would also embrace almost half of Latin America’s population and include around 50% of its combined GDP, giving the region the central role that it lacks in the TPP or the TTIP.
It is inconceivable that the US could have maintained forever the unipolar dominance of the early post-Cold War years, when it accounted for close to 30% of global GDP and half of the world’s military expenditure.
Similarly, in Beijing’s Korean section, perhaps half of the 200,000-300,000 inhabitants – mainly workers (and their families) who are paid by Korean companies that produce goods in China for export – reportedly have gone home.
The World Bank’s most recent estimate is that complete trade liberalization (including in manufactures and by developing nations themselves) would produce a net gain to the developing world of half a percentage point of their income.
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