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But the World Bank’s poverty line of $1.25 per day (in purchasing-power-parity terms), which is used in measuring progress toward the MDGs’ poverty-reduction target, is not the only relevant threshold.
Vulnerability exists at levels far above the World Bank’s $1.25/day poverty threshold, especially given rising job insecurity and inadequate social protection worldwide.
India is at the threshold of an era of unprecedented growth.
College counselors apparently did not think that the suspect met this demanding threshold.
In most European countries, gross sovereign debt exceeds the threshold (60% of GDP) established by the Stability and Growth Pact.
The unemployment rate has finally fallen below the 7% threshold.
Today, highly motivated people can lower the threshold for action so that people with less passion join their efforts.
Given the variety of matters to which they must attend, officials are likely to have a high threshold of attention below which risks are ignored.
But Indians have a particularly low threshold for what qualifies as disrespect.
Moreover, absolute protection for all deposits up to an ex ante threshold – say, €100,000 ($133,000) – should be firmly anchored within EU legislation.
The EU’s current €100,000 threshold could be reduced to half, or even less.
The difference in economic performance under Democratic and Republican presidents is consistent and substantial, with the disparities clearly above the threshold for statistical significance.
The cross-border flows of goods, information, people, and capital that are its lifeblood rely on a threshold level of safety, stability, and predictability.
It is this threshold that appears to be under threat.
But we think that an over-diagnosis rate of more than 50% crosses the clinical significance threshold.
Up to a threshold of around 100 kwh per capita per day, energy consumption and human development indicators go hand in hand.
At current prices, between $10 and $20 per person per day would be needed to reach that threshold.
Fortunately, it seems to be choosing the path of flexibility and adjustment, as it pursues an ambitious reform plan that, it is hoped, will enable it to edge closer to – and eventually cross – the high-income threshold.
On the contrary: the threshold for a qualified majority has been raised from 71.26% (68 of 87 votes) to 74.79% ( 258 out of 345 votes).
It is widely believed that the conference may well represent the world’s last chance to limit the global temperature increase to 2º Celsius over pre-industrial levels – the threshold beyond which the risks of climate change become particularly daunting.
For many species of coral, this bleaching threshold is usually only a couple of degrees centigrade above the typical maximum temperature for a given location.
Despite this, at its most recent meeting in November, the ECB continued to describe current interest rates as “still appropriate”-- signaling that the bank has not reached the required threshold for action.
Indeed, it will spur a review of countries’ emissions targets, aimed at closing the gap between current pledges and the reductions needed to remain below the two-degree threshold.
After all, crossing that two-degree threshold implies condemning future generations to global warming’s most devastating consequences.
The Iranian regime should, at the very least, commit itself to halt uranium enrichment at 20%, a figure short of the threshold needed to produce weapons.
The best way to slow the cost of Social Security is to raise the age threshold for receiving full benefits.
Back in 1983, Congress agreed on a bipartisan basis that this threshold should be raised gradually from 65 years to 67, cutting the long-run cost of Social Security by about 1.2% of GDP.
Given that China is projected to cross the same threshold sometime this year, many believe its average annual growth over the next five years will fall well below 7%.
But the best indicator of China’s growth potential is not its per capita GDP relative to some arbitrary threshold; it is the difference in per capita GDP between China and the United States, the world’s most advanced economy.
When Japan crossed the $11,000 threshold in 1972, its per capita GDP was 72% of the US level.
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