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Though Macron came out on top, he secured only 24% of the vote – just three percentage points more than Le Pen and the lowest leading share since Jacques Chirac in 2002.
The coupon on these bonds was actually 1.5 percentage points below sovereign bonds of similar maturity, which is also unusual, especially given that Rosneft currently is subject to Western sanctions.
In that case, as an example, if an investment strategy yields an 8% annual return in normal times, a large shock of 20% at ten year intervals would reduce the average 10 returns by 3.19 percentage points, to 4.81%.
Notes: The Q3/Q4 inflation rate is the annualized percentage change of the Harmonized Consumer Price Index from 15.06.2010 to 15.12.2010 (15.05-15.11
Indeed, the Arab Union estimates that the lack of regional integration costs each country two percentage points of annual GDP growth, while the African Economic Commission reckons that if a Maghreb Union existed, the five countries would each gain 5% of GDP.
Taken together, these factors make it easy to imagine trend GDP growth being one percentage point below normal for another decade, possibly even longer.
Possible thresholds include the poverty line, a percentage of pre-retirement income, or a certain standard of living.
The recent opening of the economies of Africa to global trade, combined with more realistic exchange rates, have probably raised Africa’s growth rates by around 2 percentage points per year compared with the rates of the 1980s.
Assuming a flat rate of national contributions to the federal budget, Greece, for example, would shed 2-3 precious percentage points from its public deficit.
But this would imply a further drop of measured GDP by about the same percentage (and a further substantial increase in unemployment).
America does need a clearinghouse for derivatives, and a much higher percentage of derivative trading should take place on exchanges, rather than bilaterally over the counter.
For example, US President Barack Obama has repeatedly stressed the need to increase the percentage of young Americans earning a college degree.
Brazil and Mexico collectively accounted for 19 percentage points of that increase.
After the training, the percentage surged to 81%.
Given the high risk premiums currently prevailing in Europe, this percentage is too low to constitute a level playing field.
This seems to be why, although it has only a small lead of 2-4 percentage points in the polls, the center-left Labour Party has had the best of the campaign.
In April, the tax rate on companies will fall by 2.4 percentage points.
Meeting those objectives will require both an improvement in energy productivity (the amount of income produced per unit of energy consumed) of at least 3% per year and the rapid decarbonization of energy supply, with the share of zero-carbon energy increasing by at least one percentage point each year.
Over the last decade, energy productivity has grown by only 0.7% annually, and the share of zero-carbon energy rose by only 0.1 percentage point per year.
Moreover, even if the INDCs were fully implemented, these annual growth rates would reach only 1.8% and 0.4 percentage points, respectively.
With manufacturing’s share of employment rising from the low single digits in the 1950’s to a high of 28% in 1989 (it has since fallen by ten percentage points), South Korea underwent in three decades a transformation that took a century or longer in the early industrializers.
This past November, Walters was reelected with 58.6% of the vote, but her district favored Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump by two percentage points.
In the race for Kansas’s 4th district seat, the Republican candidate Ron Estes won by less than ten percentage points in a constituency that Trump carried by 27 – and only after the national party was forced to mobilize massive resources on his behalf.
But British interest rates are four percentage points higher than France or Germany, because the markets distrust the stability of the pound.
That base constitutes a very high percentage of Republicans who vote in primaries, where nominees for the House and Senate are chosen.
Yet Congressional approval is unlikely, and overall fiscal policy remains strongly contractionary, reducing growth by about 1.5 percentage points this year.
That is, China’s annual GDP growth rate would drop by four percentage points if its exports did not grow at all.
Among Iraqis, the percentage of those who agreed that Iraq would be a better place if religion and politics were separated increased from 50% in 2004 to almost 70% in 2011.
According to a 2016 report by the International Monetary Fund, MENA states bordering high-intensity conflict zones have suffered an average annual GDP decline of 1.9 percentage points in recent years, while inflation has increased by an average of 2.8 percentage points.
From 1993 to 1998, the US created millions of jobs, which raised the employment rate by 5.4 percentage points.
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