Cheap meaning a few percent of GDP.

Among other things, because startup companies are .02 percent of U.S. GDP investmentm and they're about 17.8 percent of output.

And we had GDP grow from an average of 2.3 percent the previous decade to about 6.5 percent now.

However, the sector's contribution to GDP declined from 21 percent (1983 1989) to 14, 6 percent (1990 2000).

The OECD estimates that Canada's net financial liabilities fell to 32.2 percent of GDP in 2004, down from 69.3 percent in 1995.

I said that charitable giving is two percent of GDP in the United States.

R D in total in the economy, publicly funded, is about 0.6 percent of GDP.

In 1998 the sector contributed about 8 percent to the GDP and merchandise exports respectively, accounting for 25 percent employment of the labour force.

Its largest recipients were Germany and France, and it was only 2.5 percent of their GDP.

which ensure that over five percent of the province's GDP is accounted for by this trade.

It turns out even during the Cultural Revolution, China out perfomed India in terms of GDP growth by an average of about 2.2 percent every year in terms of per capita GDP.

According to estimates of the Organisation for Economic Co operation and Development (OECD), on a total government basis, Canada was the only G 7 country to post a surplus in 2002 (0.3 per cent of GDP), 2003 (0.6 percent of GDP) and 2004 (1.3 percent of GDP), and is the only one expected to do so both in 2005 and 2006.

And this zero hunger program costs .5 percent of GDP and has lifted many millions of people out of hunger and poverty.

Charitable giving has remained stuck, in the U.S., at two percent of GDP ever since we started measuring it in the 1970s.

But in the last two decades, it has experienced an unprecedented expansion, now accounting for roughly 15 percent of the world's GDP.

The government is committed to raising its budgetary expenditures at least by over 0.2 percent of GDP per annum starting FY 2001 02.

I mean, can you picture a politician standing up in Britain and saying, GDP fell two percent this year. Good news!

And yet, 64 percent of the world's GDP today is in that intangible industry we call service, the service industry, the industry I'm in.

The fact is studies show that the cost of malnutrition and hunger the cost to society, the burden it has to bear is on average six percent, and in some countries up to 11 percent, of GDP a year.

And what you can see is that over the last 25 years, Greece has barely managed to save more than 10 percent of their GDP.

This reflects a significant shift from past budgetary performance when anti poverty public expenditures declined by an average of 0.25 percent of GDP per annum, during 1995 2000.

It's conceivable that, say, using the sulfates method or this method I've come up with, you could create an ice age at a cost of .001 percent of GDP.

This debt reduction, coupled with Canada's strong economic growth, has resulted in a significant decline in the federal debt to GDP (Gross Domestic Product) ratio, from its peak of 68.4 percent in 1995 1996 to an expected 38.8 percent in 2004 2005.

Population urban (percent of total) ____________ Population rural (percent of total) ____________

10 percent. 10 percent.

We did estimates in our study that for countries like Brazil, India and Indonesia, even though ecosystem services these benefits that flow from nature to humanity for free they're not very big in percentage terms of GDP two, four, eight, 10, 15 percent but in these countries, if we measure how much they're worth to the poor, the answers are more like 45 percent, 75 percent, 90 percent.

We did estimates in our study that for countries like Brazil, India and Indonesia, even though ecosystem services these benefits that flow from nature to humanity for free they're not very big in percentage terms of GDP two, four, eight, 10, 15 percent but in these countries, if we measure how much they're worth to the poor, the answers are more like 45 percent, 75 percent, 90 percent.

An average African country receives foreign aid to the tune of 13, 15 percent of its GDP, and that is an unprecedented transfer of financial resources from rich countries to poor countries.

Nigeria 70 percent of roads are untarred. Zambia 80 percent.

Instead of 50 percent saying yes, 25 percent said yes.

Our societies now spend two, three, four percent of GDP to invest systematically in new discovery, in science, in technology, to fuel the pipeline of brilliant inventions which illuminate gatherings like this.

Nineteen percent of Americans are in the top one percent of earners.

So 20 percent of the blogs get 80 percent of the links.

57.1 percent of the girls have anemia 23 percent of the adolescent female population suffer chronic energy deficiency 61 percent have unwanted pregnancies, with 12 percent of them undergoing abortion and 70 percent performing the abortion themselves 10 percent assisted by traditional helpers to perform the abortion, but only 7 percent by making use of professional medical assistance

But if we could move charitable giving from two percent of GDP up just one step to three percent of GDP, by investing in that growth, that would be an extra 150 billion dollars a year in contributions, and if that money could go disproportionately to health and human services charities, because those were the ones we encouraged to invest in their growth, that would represent a tripling of contributions to that sector.

Percent of total

One percent of us own 40 percent of all the goods and services.

And what people are beginning to ask is Surely, just as we invest in R and D, two, three, four percent, of our GDP, of our economy, what if we put, let's say, one percent of public spending into social innovation, into elder care, new kinds of education, new ways of helping the disabled?

20 percent of the merchandise accounts for 80 percent of the revenue, 20 percent of the users use 80 percent of the resources this is the shape people are talking about when that happens.

Only two percent, only two percent of tribes get to Stage Five.

Renewable energy is 27 percent of our total, going for 100 percent.

We'd go from three percent of the arable land, to four percent.

And yet, the reality in resource poor countries, in the absence of tests and treatment, 40 percent 40 percent of children are infected 40 percent versus two percent an enormous difference.

After decades of 2 percent, we are now at 5 percent, and it's going to projected 6 and 7 percent even.

Between 2000 and 2004, of those participating in EBSMs, 45.2 percent were women seven percent were Aboriginal people 4.2 percent were persons with disabilities and 5.1 percent were visible minorities.