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The US Treasury was complaining yet again about the Chinese currency, which had depreciated by 2.4% against the dollar in the first
half
of 2014, after having appreciated by 37% over the previous eight and a
half
years.
In fact, the eurozone will contract in the first
half
of next year – and probably in the second half, because of the deficit-cutting policies now being pursued – placing further pressure on banks and sovereigns.
While citizens with so-called “below-poverty-line” cards are eligible for government relief, surveys show that about
half
of the poor do not have the card – while about one-third of the non-poor do.
The Palestinian
half
of the city suffers from a lack of infrastructure, including roads, sewage, and schools.
Consumption (private as well as public) contributed only 3.4 percentage points to economic growth in the first
half
of this year, and an estimated 2.5 percentage points in the April-June period – a deceleration on a sequential quarterly basis that underscores a cyclical, or temporary, weakening in Chinese consumer demand.
In the first
half
of 2013, services output (the tertiary sector) expanded by 8.3% year on year – markedly faster than the combined 7.6% growth of manufacturing and construction (the secondary sector).
Despite its flaws, the banking union helped to keep financial markets calm in the first
half
of 2015, even as Greece’s new government, led by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, challenged a basic feature of Europe’s approach to national financial crises: that recipients of support must engage in belt-tightening.
For
half
a century, the process of European integration proceeded – sometimes with setbacks, sometimes with giant steps forward – joining formerly separate markets by creating very close trade relations.
It is interesting to see the world's financial elites seek refuge from the uncomfortable but essential Keynesian advice they are now giving to Japan by changing the subject to financial reform, Big Bang deregulation of Japan’s financial institutions, and fixing the
half
trillion dollars of bad loans on the books of Japanese banks.
The EU allocates about
half
of its budget to agricultural subsidies, even though the food industry represents only about 6% of its GDP.
Everyone can bet on a run on the Argentine peso – a favorite sport of international financial speculators for a century and a
half.
We know that dissemination of mosquito nets and malaria prevention programs could cut malaria incidence in
half
by 2015 for about $3 billion annually – less than 2% of the cost of Kyoto.
Hidden behind a vaguely defined formula, a third mitigation target has been introduced: reaching zero emissions in the second
half
of the century.
By 2015, more than
half
of all the natural gas produced in the US came from shale.
The fawning article was devoted to one Donald Trump, in whom the author found a thousand virtues because of his supposed hostility to “the system,” the likelihood that he would abandon the West’s “liberal orientation,” and his willingness to attack “media power,” “economic globalization,” and “Wall Street’s arrogance” (and that’s not the
half
of it).
Though investment stabilized in the second
half
of last year, it remains well below pre-crisis levels.
Almost
half
of the stimulus simply offsets the contractionary effect of cutbacks at the state level.
Indeed, growth in the 1990's was little more than
half
the rate recorded in the pre-reform decades of the 1960's and 1970's.
Other than the US, Australia also stands out: though its economy is
half
the size of the UK’s, it has seven of the world’s top 100 universities.
According to UNICEF, Sub-Saharan Africa is home to more than
half
of the 58 million children worldwide who are not in school, particularly girls and young women.
This rate of potential output growth – roughly
half
the pre-crisis trend – is associated with an aggregate unemployment rate of about 8%.
And though voting rates in presidential elections declined from 62% to 50% in the latter
half
of the twentieth century, they stabilized in 2000, and rose to 58% in 2012.
A 2002 study indicated that three-quarters of Americans feel connected to their communities, and consider their quality of life to be excellent or good, with nearly
half
of adults participating in a civic group or activity.
For the decade that began in 2011, we at Goldman Sachs Asset Management have assumed that China, which accounts for about
half
of total Growth Eight output (probably $8.3 trillion by the end of 2012), will grow at a 7-8% annual rate in real terms, with inflation around 3%.
They represent more than a quarter of the Earth’s landmass, over 41% of its population, almost 25% of world GDP, and nearly
half
of all foreign-exchange and gold reserves.
The Pakhtuns, who constitute about
half
of Afghanistan’s population, believe that the US invasion meant a loss of power to their ethnic rivals, the Tajiks and Uzbeks.
After all, Kaliningrad is an area about the size of the Danish island of Zealand; its population (1 million) is less than
half
that of Copenhagen and its suburbs.
Thirty countries –
half
of them in Africa – do not have a single radiotherapy machine.
Moreover, Saudi Arabia has been the chief exporter of intolerant and extremist Wahhabi Islam since the second
half
of the Cold War.
Until the second
half
of 2008, Europe seemed to have reached fiscal Paradise: the market did not differentiate between eurozone governments’ bonds.
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