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Between 1990 and 2015, the percentage of the world practicing open defecation halved to 15%.
The unemployment rate remains about two percentage points higher than what most economists consider consistent with a full recovery, and the labor-force participation rate is hovering near historic lows.
Both the internal and external environments in which Humala finds himself – and the fact that he won by a margin of only three percentage points – seem to call for moderation and consensus.
As a result, from 1999 to 2009, the US share of their global operations fell by roughly 7-8 percentage points in value added, capital investment, and employment, and by about 3-4 percentage points in R&D and compensation.
The shrinking domestic share of their total employment – a share that also fell by four percentage points in the 1990’s – has fueled concerns that they have been relocating jobs to their foreign subsidiaries.
Although the region’s poverty rate has decreased by 10 percentage points in the last decade, 180 million people remain below the line, more than 70 million are still indigent, and a large percentage remains just above the poverty line.
Until mid-2013, the IMF and the World Bank had projected aggregate per capita GDP growth rates for the emerging and developing countries (EMDEVs) to be almost three percentage points higher than in the world’s advanced countries over the next few years.
Is the world reverting to a growth pattern whereby the percentage gap between income levels in the aggregate “North” and “South” does not decrease?
What is likely is a return to the pre-crisis differential: from 1990 to 2008 (excluding the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis), aggregate per capita growth in the emerging world was about 2.5 percentage points higher than that in the advanced countries.
In the 2008-2012 period, that differential increased to more than four percentage points.
It now appears set to fall back to about 2.5 percentage points.
Since 1990, public debt has increased by about 40 percentage points of GDP in the European Union and the United States (and much more in Japan).
Since 1976, federal spending on R&D has actually declined as a percentage of GDP – from 1.2% to just 0.7% this year.
That scenario implies slower growth – possibly 1-1.5 percentage points slower – in developing countries, including China, again with a preponderance of downside risk.
Short rates must come down a full percentage point in the next year to keep growth at 2.5 to 3 percent.
They estimate that a slowdown of one percentage point in China’s annual growth rate would reduce low-income countries growth rates by 0.3 percentage points – almost a third as much.
It is as if the country had lost 4-5 percentage points of GDP each year since 2007.
Although the rate of online voting in Estonia increased by nearly 20% between the 2007 and 2011 elections there, overall voter turnout increased by fewer than two percentage points (from 61.9% to 63.5%).
It is now pretty much agreed that fiscal tightening has cost developed economies 5-10 percentage points of GDP growth since 2010.
This might appear substantial, but it is only a few percentage points higher than in Germany.
Historically, the real interest rate on ten-year Treasuries has been above 2%; thus, today’s rate is about two percentage points below its historical average.
Second, a clear cost ceiling should be set for these schemes;I have suggested basing this limit on the percentage of pensionable pay financed by the taxpayer.
Meanwhile, last year, 36% of employers worldwide reported facing difficulties in finding talent, the highest percentage in seven years.
In 2007, government expenditure on health care, social security, and unemployment welfare programs totaled about $88 billion, or 15% of the fiscal budget and 2.4% of GDP (far below the typical percentage in both developed and developing democracies).
Even more stunning are estimates that roughly 9% of all Americans – and a similar percentage of adults worldwide – have diabetes.
During the twentieth century, the nation recorded its highest percentage of foreign-born residents in 1910 – 14.7% of the population.
So, why not replace the tax on reported profits with a pay-or-play tax on a percentage of their overall sales?
In India, that percentage may be even higher, as increasingly ubiquitous 4G services and increasingly cheap Internet-enabled smartphones have recently enabled millions to get online – and offer up significant amounts of personal information.
The ECB will service (as opposed to purchase) a portion of every maturing government bond corresponding to the percentage of the member state’s public debt that is allowed by the Maastricht rules.
And America’s share of world manufacturing exports, which declined by 4.5 percentage points from 2000 to 2008, has stabilized – and even increased by 0.35 percentage points in 2012.
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