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This $1.90 threshold for extreme poverty is a really tight limit: it is not what a wealthy tourist could buy in a low-cost, developing country.
Just 20 years ago, about half of Indonesians were poor, whereas in 2014 (the most recent estimate) shows just over 8%, or 21 million people, below the $1.90/day threshold.
For example, the civil services in Iraq have recently crossed a threshold beyond which they are now probably impossible to administer.
Title IV of the law would raise the threshold for “applying enhanced prudential standards from $50 billion to $250 billion.”
I testified to Congress that $50 billion, as defined under Dodd-Frank, is a sensible threshold at which the Federal Reserve should pay more attention to financial institutions.
A future in which regional powers like Turkey, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia (which has worked closely with Pakistan on the nuclear front) possess threshold nuclear capabilities is becoming more likely that ever.
After more than a decade of diplomatic isolation and economic sanctions, its status as a threshold nuclear state has been internationally legitimized.
It is Iran’s geopolitical behavior, not its threshold nuclear status, that matters.
This opens the possibility that the US’s voting power could temporarily fall below the 15% threshold needed to veto decisions that require the support of 85% of IMF members’ votes.
Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels – far more than the two degrees that climate scientists have identified as the threshold beyond which the most disastrous consequences of climate change would be triggered.
These subtler symptoms may constitute a pre-konzo condition, providing a warning that a child is approaching the disease’s threshold.
While there is a plan to raise and then eliminate the 20% threshold, this is left to some future, unspecified date.
We are on the threshold of an era in which the amassing of brainpower will be the key to economic growth and prosperity.
Second, the historically large majority of seats that LREM is set to win, owing to low turnout and the 12.5% threshold for going on to the second round of voting, means that a new and very different French political landscape is emerging.
Mexico has profound security problems in some regions, but it is also a country that just might be on the threshold of a huge political and economic transformation.
On the contrary, accumulating reserves beyond a certain threshold carries a high opportunity cost and suggests the need to let the currency appreciate.
But when Gazprom, the Russian state gas monopoly, followed Putin’s instructions to turn off the spigot to Ukraine, Russia crossed a new threshold.
There was no given threshold below which debt was innocuous and above which it was dangerous.
It was so tempting for a minister or a senior technocrat to explain that consolidation had to start immediately, because the 90% threshold was approaching, that most of them did not resist it.
If anything, Saudi Arabia has historically been willing to allow threats to reach a very high threshold – far higher than even a superpower like the United States would allow – before taking military action.
We propose a carbon “price-and-rebate” mechanism, which simultaneously sets a price on emissions above a certain threshold and defines how the revenues raised should be used.
In our system, a country exceeding the worldwide average for per capita emissions would pay a specified amount on every ton of CO2 (or its equivalent) above a set threshold.
It provides no tools to ensure implementation of the policies and measures needed to keep global warming “well below” two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the threshold that forms the centerpiece of the deal.
The wrong approach could easily lock the world into a carbon-based economy for another decade or more, pushing us far beyond the two-degree threshold.
Even the newly formed Alternative for Germany – which did unexpectedly well in the recent election, finishing just short of the 5% threshold needed to enter the Bundestag – insists that its anti-euro agenda is not anti-Europe.
This feedback has nothing to do with the debt-to-annual-GDP ratio crossing some threshold, unless the people who contribute to the feedback believe in the ratio.
The fundamental problem that much of the world faces today is that investors are overreacting to debt-to-GDP ratios, fearful of some magic threshold, and demanding fiscal-austerity programs too soon.
When the notional value of foreign-exchange swaps ($115 billion) is netted out, the share of short-term public debt (foreign and domestic) covered by international reserves is below the critical threshold of 100%.
Instead, most now apply insecticides only when infestation exceeds some threshold level, with the goal of producing a sustainable and satisfactory crop.
But Mario Monti, the economist called to lead a technocratic government in the fall of 2011 and stave off a debt default, barely crossed the electoral threshold required to enter Parliament.
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