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That means that paying off a 30-year mortgage on a median-price home would cost a median-income buyer more than
half
of their income – and that is without interest.
External demand in the second
half
of 2011 is unlikely to be strong, owing to the shaky global recovery.
But, with a coming decline in headline inflation and mounting concerns about growth, the PBC is likely to prove a bit more accommodating in the second
half
of 2011.
In the second
half
of 2011, China’s growth rate could fall further, but there will be no hard landing.
In Lithuania, renewables now account for more than
half
of total electricity and heat production.
After China’s trade surplus peaked at 9% of GDP in 2007, it adjusted to the receding price competitiveness: it has been less than
half
that level each year since 2010.
Roughly
half
the population in Europe and the United States, generally working-class voters, believes that immigration is out of control, posing a threat to public order and cultural norms.
Africa’s Race Against the MachinesWASHINGTON, DC – By some estimates, automation threatens over
half
of all jobs in OECD countries.
And yet Africa’s forest coverage fell by 10% between 1990 and 2005 – more than
half
the recorded global shrinkage.
China, Egypt, and Turkey jailed more than
half
of the world’s journalists in 2017, continuing a trend from the previous year.
Its project for the first
half
of this century should be to do the same at home.
As a result, since 2007, the number of immigrants arriving each year has fallen by half, while the number of emigrants has tripled.
These tariffs will raise the prices of about
half
of Chinese goods imports, which totaled $506 billion in 2017, by 10% today and 25% in 2019.
China’s outward FDI is poised to increase sharply again in 2010, judging by the first
half
of the year, when it was rising at an annual rate of 44%.
Even taking into account the increasing demographic differential, which now amounts to about
half
a percentage point per year, the US economy has grown by about 4.5 percentage points more over these three years on a per capita basis.
It was less a global order than a group of like-minded countries, largely in the Americas and Western Europe, which comprised less than
half
of the world.
Of course, America did maintain economic dominance after 1945: the devastation of WWII in so many countries meant that the US produced nearly
half
of global GDP.
But there is still reason to believe that, at least in the first
half
of this century, the US will retain its primacy in power resources and continue to play the central role in the global balance of power.
The main measures to control credit growth were a gradual increase in reserve requirements, beginning in 2010; some restrictions on consumer loans; and the introduction of credit-growth caps in the second
half
of 2011.
Rumsfeld's remarks were divisive because Western Europe seems to know even less than the Americans about Europe's eastern
half.
Worldwide, only one-tenth of the people who need resettlement have been offered a place to call home, and
half
of all migrants are hosted in only ten countries.
In other words, Russia has already spent more than
half
of its total military budget for 2015.
Foreign-owned enterprises account for about
half
of China’s exports; and US firms are the biggest investors in the country.
Recent opinion polls suggest that at least
half
of all South Koreans are worried enough about regional tensions to support closer military ties with Japan.
Adding the Europe Region to the Americas, China and the Pacific Rim, means more than
half
the world's countries - comprising over three billion people - are now officially free of this crippling disease.
Europe devotes
half
as much in financial resources to the military as the US, resulting in one-tenth of America's military strength, observed Pat Cox, Speaker of the European Parliament.
It is now estimated that nearly
half
a nation‘s health care costs can be attributed to tissue loss or organ failure.
In other words, investors are expecting to receive only about
half
of what they are owed.
Any credible bailout plan must require creditor banks to accept that they will lose at least
half
of their money.
By contrast, the latest data suggest that the US economy is performing as sluggishly now as it was in the first
half
of the year.
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