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Moreover, Muslim politicians gain popularity by siding with Islamic conservatives while their Christian rivals score political points by complaining about Sharia's extreme aspects.
To understand the current China-US trade relationship, two points should be considered.
But an emerging group of scientists points to phenomena that current theories do not address well.
Spain had succeeded in limiting the spread between its interest rates and those of Germany to about two percentage points.
By mid-July, however, the cost of borrowing for Spain and Italy was nearing four points, and France’s borrowing conditions were rapidly deteriorating.
Over the last three years (2011-2013), the US economy grew by about six percentage points more.
Even taking into account the increasing demographic differential, which now amounts to about half a percentage point per year, the US economy has grown by about 4.5 percentage points more over these three years on a per capita basis.
A retrenchment of public consumption actually subtracted more demand in the US (0.8 percentage points) than in the European Union (0.1 points).
The media will then praise their respective governments’ “courage” and “assertiveness,” and cast the outcome as “win on points.”
The United States, France, and the United Kingdom are adamant that all the intelligence and eyewitness evidence points to the Assad government as the perpetrator of the attack.
Of course, even with private-sector investment, progress toward eradicating malaria in Africa will be uneven, not least because different countries are at different points on the path.
From the point of view of public policy, three points can already be made in its wake.
For reasons that are unclear, Trichet, in contrast to the ECB’s first president, Wim Duisenberg, has wanted to raise rates by only 25 basis points at a time.
The US Federal Reserve can cut 100 basis points from the federal funds rate and not lose control over US inflationary expectations.
This development dilemma points to the third factor: ineffectual politics.
He made three main points: Germany didn’t have the capacity to pay were it to regain anything like a normal standard of living; any attempt to force it to reduce its standard of living would produce revolution; and to the extent that Germany was able to increase its exports to pay reparations, this would be at the expense of the recipients’ exports.
In a similar vein, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand cut its policy rate 25 basis points, to 2%, to counter deflationary forces and restrain the appreciation of the New Zealand dollar.
The deterioration in US net exports already trimmed about 0.8 percentage points from real GDP growth in the first quarter of 2016 (largely at the expense of manufacturing).
Inevitably, we will hear commentary about an electorate exhausted from a dramatic year in which France’s political foundations shifted and its traditional points of reference were obscured.
Of course, some of America's allies are better suited than others to get these points across to the audience on the other side of the Atlantic.
Each development, and certainly their occurrence in tandem, points to the historic paradigm changes shaping today’s global economy – and to the anxiety that comes with the loss of once-dependable anchors, be they economic and financial or social and political.
According to CBO data, the ACA will reduce the long-term fiscal deficit by two percentage points of GDP per year.
For example, if China took measures in a future crisis scenario to disrupt the buildup of American combat power in certain places and at certain times, the US would need to create alternative points of entry for its reinforcements, delaying its initial and follow-on responses.
The unemployment rate in the US and the eurozone has increased by about the same amount as well – three percentage points.
In the US (and the United Kingdom), the general government deficit today is still around 8% of GDP, compared to a little more than 3% of GDP in the eurozone, and the US debt/GDP ratio has increased by more than 41 percentage points, compared to “only” 25 points in the eurozone.
Part of the segmentation of online markets involves web companies testing price points to estimate precisely the demand curve and its links to household characteristics.
All too often, the path to easy influence is to impugn the other side’s motives and methods, rather than recognizing and challenging an opposing argument’s points.
What lies ahead is uncertain; the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean stressed that CAFTA's implementation will add 0.5 percentage points to the rate of annual GDP growth in the region.
The expected inflation rate over the next ten years implied by the inflation-indexed bonds rose 0.3 percentage points in the 14 months after July 2016, but then increased 0.8 percentage points in the next five months.
The idea is that this would eventually raise the profile of all interest rates by two percentage points, thereby leaving that much extra room to cut.
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