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By combining visual and infrared information, we can also compute indices such as NDVI.
These worsening indices of health care or health studies in Africa demand a new look.
I presented a couple of gender parity indices, and some conclusions about the Arab world.
These are the reds you're seeing in this plot, warm anomalies, strong positive indices of the PDO.
The program’s use of mobile technology allows health-care workers (and others) to measure blood sugar and other vital indices as part of a regular checkup.
In fact, nominal interest rates are at zero, while the broadest price indices are increasing, albeit gently.
Yet investors have pushed equity indices to all-time highs, despite the feeble and uncertain recovery, while the VIX index, a proxy for investors’ perceptions of risk, fell to levels not seen since the boom years of 2005 and 2006.
But this would not apply to livelihood insurance, because its benefits are tied to the rise and fall of income indices, which are beyond the control of individuals.
The fact is that the original objective of central banks was not consumer-price stability; consumer-price indices did not even exist when most of them were founded.
What is clear is that Chinese entrepreneurs and investors – who have been complaining for years about the heavy tax burden in China – are far more inclined to agree with the World Bank than more favorable comparisons and indices.
End Austerity NowEDINBURGH – In recent weeks, talk about a budding recovery in the eurozone has gained traction, with key indices pointing to expansion in the core countries – data that many are citing as evidence that austerity is finally working.
But now growth rates for Chinese exports and related indices in manufacturing have fallen, largely owing to weak external demand, especially in Europe.
With MSCI now set to offer investors emerging-markets indices that exclude Russia, a massive sell-off of Russian stocks by index funds will drive down prices further.
Even as stock-market indices moved well beyond reasonable bounds, regulators failed to predict the boom’s speed and scale.
The LIA has always been exceptional; indeed, several indices that rank SWFs on transparency, accountability, and governance issues have traditionally given only Iran a lower ranking.
And the PBOC’s interest-rate cuts, together with reductions in banks’ mandatory reserve ratios, have fueled a rise in the Shanghai, Shenzhen, and ChiNext indices of 95%, 198%, and 383%, respectively, since January 2013.
So far, the exuberant reaction of markets to Trump’s victory – all US stock indices have reached multiple record highs – has not been reflected in “hard data.”
Finally, the one-dimensional citation metric should be complemented by additional indices that provide a more comprehensive, multifaceted assessment of scientific work.
Of course, equity ownership in Russia is narrow; most Russians do not even follow market indices.
Such an approach has vaulted Cape Verde off the bottom of development indices into the respectable ranks of middle-income countries within a decade.
In the past few decades, it has become conventional for equity investors to base their decisions on neutral benchmarks determined by the market capitalization of companies and indices.
After the turmoil of the 2008 crisis subsided, a variety of indices of financial conditions displayed comparatively low levels of volatility (by historic standards) through the spring of 2013.
Conversely, Bhutan is among the top 20 most peaceful nations, but does not even make it onto innovation indices.
The platform would provide its own capital, as well as any technical, operational, and managerial expertise required to classify projects according to risk, thereby enabling the creation of indices that investors could monitor and study.
The European Commission’s economic index is plummeting, purchasing managers indices are down and so are German retail sales.
Already, this effect has kept consumer- and producer-price indices from rising, despite monetary easing, while inflating asset-price bubbles.
America remains first in total R&D expenditure, first in university rankings, first in Nobel prizes, and first on indices of entrepreneurship.
The indices name and shame poor performers, so it is no surprise that these countries – like China, which is ranked 91st – object to Doing Business.
The main problem with these indices is not so much how they are calculated as how they are used.
In general, such indices work best as a catalyst for debate about an issue.
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