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For example, bringing more female editors into the field of science publishing could raise the percentage of women appearing in peer-reviewed publications.
In 2011-2012, there was basically no difference between the yields on US and German government bonds; today, the spread is around three percentage points.
Only a few percentage points of the Israeli GNP come from agriculture today; as a result, its economy requires less water than it once did.
And, according to an IMF study, population growth in the Middle East and North Africa between 1970 and 2000 has raised the annual rate of growth of output per effective consumer by about 0.5-0.6 percentage points.
Greece will need to reduce its debt ratio considerably before it can return to the capital markets, which implies – even under an optimistic scenario – creating a primary surplus in excess of eight percentage points of GDP.
Affirmative action , as it was called, consisted of rules that set aside a certain percentage of representation among candidates for office, students and teachers, police and the military, and in other walks of life to members of hitherto disadvantaged groups.
A very large percentage of jobs are, on some level, essentially routine and repetitive.
In a range of OECD countries, rising inequality knocked 6-10 percentage points off overall GDP between 1990 and 2010.
Hedge funds constitute only a small percentage of overall world financial markets, which, according to a recent study by the McKinnsey Global Institute, now exceed $120 trillion.
While the percentage of voters backing the government is relatively unchanged, 0.6 million of the 6.1 million Greeks who voted in the July 5 referendum on continued “extend-and-pretend” loans with stringent austerity strings attached did not turn out.
While it was necessary to price risk more accurately, it is difficult to believe that the Netherlands, with a debt ratio nearly 20 percentage points lower than Germany’s, deserves to be assessed as a higher default risk.
In the eurozone’s periphery, the increase has been more marked; in Italy, for example, ten-year bond yields are up almost a full percentage point.
Among the details provided in the document, entitled America First – A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again, are projections for the expected path of gross federal debt as a percentage of GDP, which is shown to decline from its current level of about 106% to about 80% in 2027.
(A recent IMF study, for example, concludes that countries can raise productivity by improving the design of their tax system, and that eliminating such barriers would, on average, lift countries’ annual real GDP growth rates by roughly one percentage point over 20 years.)
Real GDP contracted by 5.7%, and unemployment rose by 4.9 percentage points.
Being in a military alliance with a reserve-currency-issuing country boosts the share of the partner’s foreign-exchange reserves held in that currency by roughly 30 percentage points.
But this tightening by a fraction of a percentage point of GDP implies no adverse effect on growth.
Increasing infrastructure spending by a quarter, which would represent a huge administrative effort, would lift GDP growth by just 0.4 percentage points.
That is why Venezuelan bonds pay over 11 percentage points more than US Treasuries, which is 12 times more than Mexico, four times more than Nigeria, and double what Bolivia pays.
Moreover, property prices are increasing rapidly in some locales, and a few broad share indexes posted double-digit percentage gains over the past year.
Some 20 “debut issues” have raised around $12 billion at interest rates that, on average, are just 4.5 percentage points above what the United States government pays at maturities of five or more years.
One could have predicted in advance of the recent boom how the 12 large OECD economies would rank simply by knowing the percentage of the population with a university degree, the OECD index of barriers to entrepreneurs, and the breadth of the stock exchange (measured by the market value of outstanding shares relative to GDP years before the boom).
Indeed, just one day after the ECB made its announcement – and weeks before the purchases began – interest rates fell by a fraction of a percentage point throughout the eurozone.
Rwanda, meanwhile, has the highest percentage of female legislators in the world.
Research from India shows that when governments increase the percentage of women in their ranks, social issues like health care, education, and food security receive higher priority.
It has been estimated that annual economic growth in countries with a high incidence of malaria is 1.3 percentage points lower than that of other countries.
While the value-added tax will rise by three percentage points in 2007, economic growth will remain healthy, at nearly 2%.
Compare that to Sweden, where the difference between perception and reality is just three percentage points.
The net result of these economic and demographic shifts is that a growing share of national income is now being directed to provide health, pensions, and other forms of basic support, while a declining percentage of citizens in nearly every society is now working to support a growing number of fellow citizens.
I have been conducting surveys of US investors under the auspices of the Yale School of Management, asking what percentage change they expect for the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
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