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More specifically, for households in the lowest quintile, the effective tax rate in 2013 was 3.3%, about
half
of what it had been on average over the previous 30 years.
The eight MDGs were adopted in the year 2000, when leaders meeting at the United Nations agreed to cut extreme poverty and hunger by half, fight disease, improve water safety and sanitation, expand education, and empower girls and women.
But within
half
a year or so, bad things did start to happen.
But in truth we had nothing to hide, as we simply had no information for a day and a
half.
Today, more than
half
of the world’s population lives in cities, compared to less than 3% in 1800.
It is that service-sector productivity growth has run at barely
half
the rate of the United States.
This stands in sharp contrast to the US, where
half
of all R&D is associated with services.
They partly restored Argentina’s social and political fabric, which had been weakened by the brutal adjustments made during that crisis, which triggered a president’s fall from power, default on the country’s debts, and a dramatic decline in living standards that left more than
half
of the population below the poverty line.
At its most recent policy meeting, the ECB left its policy rate unchanged, citing inflation
half
a percentage point above the official 2% target.
Indeed, the ECB’s own forecast has inflation falling in the second
half
of 2012 and again in 2013, suggesting that it has monetary room for maneuver.
By the second
half
of 2011, it was evident that emerging economies, which had weathered the financial crisis that began in 2008 moderately well, were taking on water as the eurozone crisis deepened.
Much of the terrorism in Africa in the second
half
of the 20 th century targeted the colonial powers and the European minority regimes that were their legacy.
Wilders, a popular rabble-rouser whose party occupies nine seats in the Dutch parliament, compares the Koran to Hitler’s Mein Kampf, wants to stop Muslims from moving to the Netherlands, and thunders that those who are already in the country should tear up
half
the Koran if they wish to stay.
Then, perhaps, with women chaste for
half
or more of their childbearing years, the surplus population would diminish and conditions for the poor would be as good as they could be.
They are instead pursuing fiscal consolidation, following the immense explosion of public deficits and debt in the 2008-09 recession, and have called for cutting deficits in
half
by 2013 and stabilizing the government debt-to-GDP ratio by 2016.
The Aichi targets call for cutting by
half
the rate of loss of the planet’s natural habitats, including forests, by 2020.
Five years after launch, the number of patient referrals to clinics fell 31% in the pilot area, while more than
half
of the program’s consultations were resolved by phone.
The US used to generate about
half
its electricity from coal, and roughly 20% from gas.
Yet its per capita CO2 emissions have fallen by less than
half
of the reduction achieved in the US – even in percentage terms, the US is now doing better.
The European elections are themselves curious and unsatisfactory; there are no obvious EU-wide issues that people can vote for or against, and, with the average MEP’s constituency numbering well over
half
a million people, the vote is not a test of personal popularity, either.
Among developing countries, Latin America’s share of global FDI also fell dramatically, from 40-50% in the 1970’s to about
half
that in 2006.
Redressing the problems of high unemployment and large informal sectors – where almost
half
of all goods and services are produced – is perhaps the region’s most urgent policy challenge, particularly because most investment and growth by domestic firms is related to high commodity prices, which do little to create new jobs.
Conversely, we may find ourselves in a world whose eastern
half
is organized into strong authoritarian state structures, with the West embracing post-state models of association.
In 2011, 67% of potential investors interviewed said that they considered Africa attractive, while
half
of them planned to invest in sub-Saharan Africa before 2013.
In Africa, hunger remains the leading cause of death in children, accounting for
half
of all deaths of children under the age of five and killing more than AIDS, TB, and malaria combined.
The lack of vitamin A alone results in blindness in a half-million children every year, with
half
of them dying within 12 months of losing their sight.
Gas emits less than
half
the CO2 per kWh produced, and it emits much lower amounts of other pollutants like NOx, SO2, black carbon, CO, mercury, and particulates.
While the two countries together consume slightly less than
half
as much oil as the US, their consumption is increasing faster.
But over
half
the oil Americans use goes for driving cars and trucks.
The Free-Trade MiraclePRAGUE – Global free trade provides the greatest opportunity to improve human welfare over the next decade and a
half.
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