And last year I put 88 percent of those kids in college and I've averaged over 80 percent for 15 years.

Economic reforms had brought about macroeconomic stability, and the rate of GDP growth had averaged 10 per cent over the previous five years.

Yet Botswana averaged 8.7 annual economic growth over the past thirty years, while Sierra Leone plunged into civil strife. The failures in the oil rich Middle East are legion.

He averaged 5.6 points and 2.6 rebounds a game last season.

Look more closely, however, and you will discover that these countries vaunted growth models cannot possibly be replicated everywhere, because they rely on large external surpluses to stimulate the tradable sector and the rest of the economy. Sweden s current account surplus has averaged above a whopping 7 of GDP over the last decade Germany s has averaged close to 6 during the same period.

Many researchers believe that the threat to life and property from NEOs, when averaged over long periods, is comparable to that from more familiar natural hazards such as earthquakes and extreme weather events.

According to the International Monetary Fund, during the first decade of this century, annual global growth averaged 3.7 , compared to 3.3 in the 1980s and 1990s. In the last four years, growth has averaged 3.4 .

Since March 2004, women's salaries have averaged 52,037, compared to men who earned 60,259.

In the first half of the 1990s, annual inflation averaged 40 in Africa, 230 in Latin America, and 360 in the transition economies of Eastern Europe. And, in the early 1980s, advanced economy inflation averaged nearly 10 .

In the last four years, while net Palestinian imports from Israel averaged about 1,450 million annually, net current transfers to the PA, which mainly represent donor support to relieve the humanitarian emergency, averaged 1,300 million per year.

Perhaps the deepest explanation for the Legion of Gloom s strength is where they live. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit, the OECD economies averaged annual GDP growth of 0.5 from 2008 to 2012, whereas non OECD economies averaged 5.2 growth.

In 1965, India averaged 854 kilograms of grain per hectare in use, while Sub Saharan Africa averaged almost the same, 773 kilograms per hectare. But, by 2000, India was producing 2,293 kilograms per hectare, while Africa was producing only 1,118.

In 2003, MB consumption in the top 10 A5 Parties averaged 21 below baseline (Table 3).

In recent years, GDP growth rates within the region have averaged less than 2 per cent.

The price of human beings across the last 4,000 years in today's money has averaged about 40,000 dollars.

Out of a possible 500 points, Virgin Islands fourth grade students averaged 179. The national average was 219.

Over the last 18 quarters, annualized growth in real consumer demand has averaged a mere 0.7 , compared to a 3.6 growth trend in the decade before the crisis erupted. Never before has the American consumer been this weak for this long.

Instead, they have cut back on spending. Gains in inflation adjusted personal consumption expenditure have averaged a mere 0.8 over the past five years the most severe and protracted slowdown in consumer demand growth in the post World War II era.

The number of local government jobs averaged 11,626 in fiscal year 2003, compared to 11,621 jobs in fiscal year 2002.

MADRID In recent years, China s current account surpluses which have averaged almost 220 billion annually since 2000 have attracted much criticism from the rest of the world. But Germany s similar size surpluses which have averaged about 170 billion since the euro s introduction in 1999 have, until recently, largely escaped scrutiny.

A5 countries in total achieved a MB reduction of that averaged about 20 between 2000 and 2002 (See Annex 2 for details).

A5 countries in total achieved a MB reduction of that averaged about 20 between 2000 and 2002 (See Annex 2 for details).

One of the most glaring features of this pattern is the disparity between China s GDP growth, which has averaged nearly 10 annually over the last few decades, and its employment growth, which has amounted to just 1 2 annually. Clearly, industrialization and export expansion alone cannot absorb China s massive labor force.

Since the fourth quarter of 2008, America s net national saving rate has been negative in sharp contrast to the 6.4 of GDP averaged over the last three decades of the twentieth century. Never before in modern history has the world s leading economic power experienced a saving shortfall of such epic proportions.

Look more closely, however, and you will discover that these countries vaunted growth models cannot possibly be replicated everywhere, because they rely on large external surpluses to stimulate the tradable sector and the rest of the economy. Sweden s current account surplus has averaged above a whopping 7 of GDP over the last decade

Annualized real consumption growth over the subsequent eight quarter period from the third quarter of 2009 through the second quarter of 2011 averaged 2.1 . That is the most anemic consumer recovery on record fully 1.5 percentage points slower than the 12 year pre crisis trend of 3.6 that prevailed between 1996 and 2007.

This is apparent in the fact that, over the last 15 years, the real federal funds rate the Fed s benchmark policy rate, adjusted for inflation has been in negative territory more than 60 of the time, averaging 0.6 since May 2001. From 1990 to 2000, by contrast, the real federal funds rate averaged 2.2 .

NAFTA brought with it a spectacular increase in Mexican exports, as well as a dramatic shift in their composition. But it proved to be a great disappointment in terms of foreign investment inflows and economic growth, which has averaged 2.6 per year over the last two decades slower than Peru, Chile, Colombia, Brazil, and Uruguay.

Annual GDP growth averaged 3.2 over this period and, unlike in the rich West, both inequality and unemployment have actually fallen, with growth mainly benefiting the middle three quintiles of the income distribution. This segment of the population usually politically crucial enjoyed a 28 rise in per capita real income from 2007 to 2014.

Depending on the emission scenarios and climate models used, the globally averaged surface temperature is projected to increase by 1.4 C to 5.8 C above 1990 levels by 2100.

A 6 foot 6 junior who grew up in Baton Rouge, Sims played in 32 games with 10 starts last season and averaged 17.4 minutes, 5.6 points and 2.9 rebounds per game.

Apart from the sources of income mentioned above, these Hollywood blockbusters still had bits of income from aircraft broadcast and music, which averaged at US 2.7 million at most for each film.

If you do a large scale expansion of nuclear energy across the world, and as a result there was just one nuclear bomb created that was used to destroy a city such as Mumbai or some other big city, megacity, the additional death rates due to this averaged over 30 years and then scaled to the population of the U.S.

Economic growth rates reveal the same gap. From 1978 to 2003, annual real GDP growth in China averaged 8.1 while growth in Mexico the fastest in Latin America, barely reached 1 a year.

Minority communities' representation in the civil service (a priority) averaged 9.6 per cent across the central government ministries (against a stipulated minimum of 16.6 per cent) and 6.2 per cent at decision making levels.

The Doing Business project calculates dozens of separate indicators that are then averaged into a single number. As with all numerical indicators that try to express a very complex reality, there is always room for improvement.

Growth in real GDP appears to have averaged close to 4 in the second half of 2013, nearly double the 2.2 pace of the preceding four years. The unemployment rate has finally fallen below the 7 threshold.

Forecasts are always hazardous, but some what if scenarios shed considerable light on what all of this means for the world s largest economy. Since the second quarter of 2009, US annualized real GDP growth has averaged 2.4 .

They averaged 37 billion in FDI outflows per year from 2001 to 2003, almost equal to the annual world totals during the first half of the 1980s about one third of this amount went to developing countries.

In sum, the EU federal corporate tax should be thought of as a benefit tax, based on a broad measure of activity, applied at a moderate rate, and unrelated to current returns nor should it be deductible from other taxes. Among the various options under consideration, the value added tax base perhaps averaged over a number of years looks best, since the accounting and tax assessment infrastructures already exist.

Indeed, notwithstanding an unprecedented post crisis tripling of Fed assets to roughly 3 trillion probably on their way to 4 trillion over the next year US consumers have pulled back as never before. In the 19 quarters since the start of 2008, annualized growth of inflation adjusted consumer spending has averaged just 0.7 almost three percentage points below the 3.6 trend increases recorded in the 11 years ending in 2006.

The poor, however, do. Whereas psephological studies in the United States have demonstrated that the poor do not vote in significant numbers (presidential election turnout in Harlem averaged 23 before Barack Obama s two candidacies), the opposite is true in India.

Recent data from the International Monetary Fund highlight these models simultaneous loss of effectiveness. Global growth averaged only 2.9 in the most recent five year period, well below the level for virtually any such multi year period going back to 1971.

The unspent balance of 279,800 under this heading is attributable to the delayed deployment of military observers (while the budgeted provisions reflected a 10 per cent delayed deployment factor, the actual vacancy rate for the reporting period averaged 12.4 per cent).

The unutilized balance of 3,233,000 under this heading is attributable to the delayed deployment of civilian police personnel (while budgeted provisions reflected a 10 per cent delayed deployment factor, the actual vacancy rate for the reporting period averaged 33.1 per cent).