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But their productivity remains low; auto plants in Mexico, for example, produce
twice
as many vehicles per worker.
So the next time you hear rumblings in the legislature of an emerging democratic country against this or that "technocratic" proposal, think
twice
before dismissing the deputies' doubts as populist rants.
He has shown this by
twice
converting a military victory into a ceasefire.
Even in absolute value, Saudi Arabia’s multilateral merchandise surplus of $212 billion in 2008 dwarfs China’s $175 billion surplus; as a percentage of GDP, Saudi Arabia’s current-account surplus, at 11.5% of GDP, is more than
twice
that of China.
That is more than
twice
the number of people who were protected under former President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
Igan and Mishra find “spending an extra dollar is almost
twice
as effective in switching a legislator’s position if the lobbyist is connected to the legislator compared to the case where the lobbyist is unconnected.”
The price of the 30-year Treasury bond is so high that it implies a yield of about 2.3%; given current inflation expectations, the yield should be about
twice
as high.
As a signal of their seriousness, European governments should think
twice
before they accept Serbia’s invitation to attend the Council of Europe’s festive 1,000th meeting in June.
I have been to Sudan twice, and, as part of a delegation organized by Conscience International, I also visited the refugee camps in Nyala and El Fasher in Darfur.
Clinton is the only person known to have launched her campaign
twice.
What this shows is that, in dealing with ASEAN, China gets to negotiate
twice
– first, through its closest allies within ASEAN in the formulation of common ASEAN positions, and then directly with an ASEAN team that could include one of its allies.
Europe
twice
endured unrestrained wars.
Leaders talk about “systemic risks” and the necessity of bailouts, but at the same time let those responsible for two consecutive systemic failures maintain the same global casino that
twice
brought the world near collapse.
More than
twice
as many women die from TB, which also kills many men and children.
For example, an increase in direct taxes, such as income tax, can reduce consumption by
twice
as much as energy and carbon taxes that raise the same amount of revenue.
According to the Trump administration’s own analysis, more than
twice
as many Americans are now working in the solar industry than in coal, oil, and gas combined.
But what if Spain - and Europe as a whole - had reacted in the opposite way to the Madrid train bombing of April, saying: "We promise that because of that slaughter we will double our support for stabilization in Iraq by sending
twice
as many troops, experts, engineers, teachers, policemen, doctors, and billions of euros in support of allied forces and their Iraqi co-workers."
If that continues, the concentration of CO2 will rise to
twice
the pre-industrial level by 2050, and three times that level later in the century.
That is
twice
the size of the global economy.
For example, the Tibetan Plateau, which contains the world’s third-largest store of ice, is warming at almost
twice
the average global rate, owing to the rare convergence of high altitudes and low latitudes – with potentially serious consequences for Asia’s freshwater supply.
According to US government surveys, Uganda’s children are among the world’s least likely to complete primary school, and are nearly
twice
as likely as children in Kenya and Rwanda to die.
In an effort to head off inflation, the US Federal Reserve has already increased its federal funds rate
twice
this year, and signaled two more increases before the end of 2018.
Because fuel cells are about
twice
as efficient as internal combustion engines, the effective cost per unit of distance would be about half that.
And agriculture-driven GDP growth is more than
twice
as effective in reducing poverty as growth in other sectors.
But the South was never conquered, and its army, the SPLA,
twice
fought the North to a standstill.
Employees may think
twice
before leaving a company if they are set to lose valuable perks as a consequence.
In recent work with Christoph Trebesch of the Kiel Institute, we counted more than
twice
as many boom-bust cycles in commodity prices than in capital flows since 1820.
From 1990 to 2007, global trade grew
twice
as fast as global GDP; since 2010, GDP growth has outpaced that of trade.
Bernanke’s the OneBERKELEY – William McChesney Martin, a Democrat, was
twice
reappointed to the job of Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve by Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Paul Volcker, a Democrat, was reappointed once by the Reagan administration (but not twice: there are persistent rumors that Reagan’s treasury secretary, James Baker, thought Volcker was too invested in monetary stability and not invested enough in producing strong economies in presidential years to elect Republicans).
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