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More recently, when stock prices began soaring during the first
half
of 2015, the economy’s slowdown had already begun.
Additional signs of weakness, including soft data on exports and investment, emerged in the first
half
of 2015.
And, perhaps most important, the country’s labor market remains healthy, creating some 7.2 million new urban jobs – many of them in services – in the first
half
of 2015.
Our projections indicate that in 20 years they will account for more than
half
the population and 75% of the poor.
While the oil market is the largest determinant of Russia’s near-term economic prospects, accounting as it does for
half
of export revenues, long-term growth requires Russia to re-enter international capital markets, attract foreign investment (and stem capital flight), and reintegrate with the global economy.
The growth rate of investment in real-estate development, which directly accounts for more than 10% of GDP, plummeted by 16.3 percentage points year on year in the first
half
of 2012.
But many economists have found evidence that growth in household consumption in the first
half
of 2012 was stronger than official statistics have shown.
But the slowdown to 7.8% annual growth in the first
half
of 2012 does not warrant a change of policy direction.
Given the dire conditions in the countries from which they are fleeing, perhaps
half
of the asylum-seekers will qualify for residency under even the strictest rules.
Upon independence
half
a century ago, India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, set India on a course of protectionism and socialism – two of the most self-defeating economic strategies of modern times.
Moreover, given that the plants are already paid for, waste facilities are already in place, and the high decommissioning cost will have to be paid regardless of timing, the actual operating costs are very low –
half
or lower per kilowatt-hour than the cost of the cheapest fossil fuels.
Of the 17.2 million people that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (the UN Refugee Agency) is responsible for protecting, roughly
half
are under the age of 18, meaning that an entire generation of young people, already robbed of their childhood, could lose out on a future as well.
Indeed, bilateral trade flows covered by such agreements now amount to roughly
half
of the world’s imports, and have contributed significantly to the dramatic growth of trade.
Its growth rate has been about
half
a percentage point lower than Germany’s over the last few years.
But this is now changing, and France’s potential future growth is about
half
a percentage point higher than that of Germany, where the population is shrinking.
Now watch this video on the challenges facing France’s President-elect Emmanuel Macron:Central Asia’s Waking GiantTHE HAGUE – The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) brings together almost
half
the world’s population, several members own nuclear weapons, many are big energy suppliers, and it includes some of the world’s fastest growing economies.
For the last five years, Pakistan’s annual GDP growth has averaged just 3% –
half
the rate needed to absorb two million new labor-force entrants every year.
Other types of cross-border investment in Europe have fallen by more than
half.
But Europe’s price has crashed alongside its economy, to less than
half
this level.
Industry receives half, a share that business groups have fought fiercely to increase, and households receive the rest though income-tax cuts and higher welfare payments.
With growth anemic in most advanced economies, the rally in risky assets that began in the second
half
of 2012 has not been driven by improved fundamentals, but rather by fresh rounds of unconventional monetary policy.
Together with political uncertainty, they will re-emerge with full force in the second
half
of the year.
By the second
half
of the year, the investment bust in real estate, infrastructure, and industrial capacity will accelerate.
Over the last year and a half, they withstood these pressures remarkably well; but, as the global crisis hits them with full force, they are now seeking help from the International Monetary Fund.
But it doesn’t stop there: You are held responsible not just for
half
of your child’s emissions, but also for a quarter of your grandchildren’s emissions, an eighth of your great-grandchildren’s emissions, and so on.
America runs a chronic current account deficit approaching an astonishing 5% of GDP; $242 billion in the first
half
of this year.
Even before the recent food-price increases, a billion people were suffering from chronic hunger, while another two billion were experiencing malnutrition, bringing the total number of food-insecure people to around three billion, or almost
half
the world’s population.
Aid for agriculture fell by more than
half
in the quarter-century after 1980, as the World Bank cut agricultural lending from $7.7 billion in 1980 to $2 billion in 2004.
If you don’t think this work important, consider that
half
the nitrogen in your body is synthetic, a product of a Haber-Bosch factory.
Second, while growth has been disappointing in both developed and emerging markets, financial markets remain hopeful that better economic data will emerge in the second
half
of 2013 and 2014, especially in the US and Japan, with the UK and the eurozone bottoming out and most emerging markets returning to form.
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