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Indeed, as Sibal points out, NAM did not protect India from decades of “US/Western technology-related sanctions,” even when it was the movement’s leader.
But, as Goldberg points out, the decision not to enforce the red line with air strikes may also have caused the Middle East to “slip from America’s grasp.”
Rather, the great diversity of fires points to the need for an equal diversity of means to cope with them or convert them to beneficial outcomes.
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.
The Fed’s policy experimentation points to a third reason for optimism.
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.
It is a brave politician who points out how much liberalizing trade and opening up markets have increased our overall prosperity.
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.
In a range of OECD countries, rising inequality knocked 6-10 percentage points off overall GDP between 1990 and 2010.
Several points about these recommendations warrant comment, beginning with the fact that the planning committee consisted almost entirely of people who do not actually treat patients and thus do not see firsthand the suffering of the afflicted and their families.
With far too many channels competing 24/7 for the same sets of eyeballs and target rating points (TRPs), television news has long since abandoned any pretense of providing a public service, and instead blatantly privileges sensation over substance.
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.
Yields on German ten-year bunds are in positive territory, having risen by around 50 basis points since the US election.
According to some polls, Serra is more than 20 points behind.
In Liberia, data collectors on motorbikes used mobile phones to map 10,000 previously unknown water points – an initiative that informed the country’s first water investment plan, launched last year.
And we may not get much warning, because climate effects generally do not evolve in a linear fashion, but rather emerge suddenly and powerfully, once certain tipping points have been reached.
Although they are permitted to come and go as they please, there are no alternative living spaces or food-distribution points.
Real GDP contracted by 5.7%, and unemployment rose by 4.9 percentage points.
By falling into this trap, the US has provided President Vladimir Putin with endless fodder to score political points and solidify his domestic position.
Instead of acknowledging the legitimacy of European concerns, he shrugged them off as a frivolity: “[I] guarantee you that in European capitals, there are people who are interested in, if not what I had for breakfast, at least what my talking points might be should I end up meeting with their leaders.”
It should not be necessary to rearticulate and reargue these basic points.
As the American commentator Matthew Yglesias points out, Europe's major center-left parties at that time recognized that what was being done was not working, but nonetheless failed to offer an alternative.
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.
Two other points require highlighting, though.
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.
The current round of talks has produced some progress on one of the issue’s two major sticking points: the heavy-water reactor at Arak.
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.
New evidence points to more complex mechanisms for pain that involve higher levels of the brain.
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