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The average number of years spent in school is a good
indicator
of a worker's quality, especially because improvements in output nowadays mostly arise from the ability to adopt new technologies.
It would be unfair to say that the BMI has no clinical value; it can be a useful
indicator
of nutritional health in patients, and help doctors make day-to-day decisions about whom they should treat.
As we examine orthologs, the proteins become more degraded, or richer in dehydrons, in species with a lower effective population – a somewhat elusive
indicator
inversely related to the size and complexity of the organism and to the complexity of its reproductive pattern.
Structural degradation is thus an
indicator
of the species’ exposure to random genetic drift: mildly deleterious mutations that would typically degrade the protein structure are more likely to be selected against in bacteria before they can become fixed in the entire population (estimated in trillions of individuals), whereas such a mutation has a far better chance of prevailing in humans.
In America, polls suggest that gender is an even more important
indicator
of support for Trump than age or education.
At the end of July, the widely watched
indicator
of European manufacturing activity crossed the threshold signaling expansion for only the second time in 23 months.
Despite hopeful blips in an economic
indicator
here and there, too many countries lack both immediate growth and longer-term growth engines.
And Europe is a leading
indicator
of this.
Indeed, by 2040, environmental standards will become an
indicator
of an economy’s overall competitiveness.
The market’s lack of response was an important
indicator
that monetary easing is no longer a useful tool for increasing economic activity.
The New York Times identified a major
indicator
of Trump-leaning districts: a white-majority working-class population whose livelihoods had been negatively affected throughout the decades in which the US economy shed manufacturing capacity.
Intergenerational mobility is a key
indicator
of equality of opportunity.
An improved poverty
indicator
– one that addresses, rather than avoids, the three major problems plaguing global estimates – is urgently needed.
One widely used
indicator
is based on Sentix surveys of market participants, which show a strong increase in the proportion who believe that the eurozone will break up soon (over the next 12 months).
But, according to the Sentix indicator, the perceived likelihood of “Grexit” remains, despite a recent surge, well below its previous peaks.
The balances among national central banks within the eurozone constitute another widely used
indicator
of the probability of a breakup.
The only country for which the Sentix
indicator
is correlated with TARGET2 balances is Italy.
The third
indicator
of renewed eurozone tensions is probably the most reliable, because it is based on where people put their money.
But this
indicator
is also not consistent with the focus on France’s presidential election this spring, or on Italy’s general election (which must be held by early next year) as somehow determining the fate of the euro.
Likewise, while the accumulated TARGET2 imbalances would indeed create a problem in case of a euro breakup, they do not constitute an independent
indicator
of capital flight.
Yet GDP may be an inaccurate
indicator
in the poorest countries, which is a concern not only for policymakers or people like me who read lots of World Bank reports, but also for anyone who wants to use statistics to make the case for helping the world’s poorest people.
While it is important to note that this figure is only an estimate, it represents a preliminary but credible
indicator
of climate finance, based on information provided by developed countries.
One
indicator
to watch for: the length of that ceasefire.
This may sound like an argument for overhauling Doing Business’ “paying taxes”
indicator.
But what is really needed is for Doing Business to drop that
indicator
altogether, because the assumption underpinning it – that low corporate taxation promotes growth – does not withstand scrutiny.
But, when it comes to the paying taxes indicator, the report has things all wrong.
If Doing Business is to live up to its own slogan, “equal opportunity for all,” it should abandon the tax
indicator
altogether.
Indeed, forward guidance works well in areas – like inflation targeting – that depend on only one
indicator.
If, as I believe, the most important business-cycle
indicator
is workers' justified anxiety about losing a job and the difficulty of finding a new one, then the worst cyclical moment for the American economy came a full fifteen months after the recession's semi-formal end.
On the most important
indicator
of global warming, temperature development, we ought to hear that the data are actually much better than expected .
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