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I heard the passion and determination of a young man, barely out of his teens, who spoke about his efforts to devise a simple technology that in several decades may rid the oceans of 90% of the plastic waste that now floats in masses
half
the size of continents.
And global trade still has not recovered its earlier trajectory: since 2008, export volumes have risen at only about
half
the average annual rate of the pre-crisis period (3.1%, see figure below).
The economy has shrunk by
half
in the last five years; oil production is down by a similar percentage.
With
half
of all African businesses owning or sharing a generator and citing electricity as a major constraint, decentralized renewables could keep Africa’s SMEs productive and their workers employed.
In addition to replacing the multi-member-district, single-vote electoral system with a single-member-district, two-round voting system, the amendment reduces the number of seats in the Yuan by
half.
And because of the government’s reforms and the country’s highly skilled workforce, the European Commission predicts a gradual return to growth by the second
half
of 2016.
We are likely to achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goal of cutting TB prevalence and mortality in
half
by 2015, from 1990 levels.
The microscopic test gives false results in nearly
half
of all cases.
Even in Chile, which enjoyed high economic growth and cut poverty in half, and Brazil, which lowered the percentage of citizens living below the poverty line by a third during the 1990’s, the concentration of wealth has increased.
In Georgia, Moldova, Tajikistan and Ukraine, for example, per capita GDP is now less than
half
of the dire levels achieved under communism.
Is he unaware that over 85% of workers are paid in cash, and that more than
half
of the population is unbanked?
Half
of all private-sector jobs were lost.
Nobody had a clear idea why the Euro plummeted to almost $0.80 in its first year and a
half
of trading, and nobody could predict when it would recover.
This matters, especially for labor-intensive activities (ranging from toy manufacturing to data-entry services), whether by affiliates of foreign multinational enterprises (which account for more than
half
of China’s exports) or by local firms, which are losing competitiveness in international markets.
Indeed, 21% of India’s population is undernourished, and more than
half
of all pregnant women are anemic.
In January 2009, the annualized growth rate in the second
half
of 2008 was officially estimated to have been -2.2%; but current figures reveal the contraction to have been much sharper – a horrendous -6.3%.
When she fell in love with Jeff Kaufman, they agreed that they would both donate a large part of what they earned – currently it’s about
half
of their income.
But, in the last five years, 2.5 million people in the eurozone have actually joined the labor force, as five million jobs were created, reducing the overall decline in unemployment by
half.
And those dynamics aren’t particular desirable: the eurozone’s working-age population is set to decline by about
half
a percentage point per year over the next decade at least.
Today, the US has the smallest middle class, holding just 22% of total net financial assets,
half
the average of other industrialized countries, and the highest concentration of wealth than in any other country.
The first change would be to prohibit imports of genetically modified feed, and require that farmers produce at least
half
of their animal feed on their own farms.
By the end of this decade, according to the US Energy Information Administration, nearly
half
of the crude oil that America consumes will be produced at home, while 82% will come from the US side of the Atlantic.
But lack of progress in such countries threatens to make Europe a continent divided:
half
a fortress of the rich, the other a volatile cauldron of the poor.
And yet, running at under 14 minutes, it never fails to move and inspire everyone in the audience, including that
half
of the graduates and their families who hail from other countries, near and far.
There was also his commitment to fight poverty: “To those people in the huts and villages of
half
the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required – not because the communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right.
Foreign investors now own more than
half
of net government debt, and that proportion is likely to keep growing.
According to the World Health Organization, as many as
half
a million people die each year from influenza.
Nonetheless, China is the bank’s largest borrower, accounting for more than a quarter of its loan portfolio (China and India alone account for
half
the total, whereas Japanese companies win only around 1% of bids for ADB financing).
July saw American industrial production jump by
half
a percent, while Intel, the big microprocessor maker, is reporting very strong growth in demand for its key products, suggesting that business investment spending is finally accelerating.
America, of course, is not alone among industrial nations that have seen productivity growth accelerate since the second
half
of the 1990's.
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