As developing countries increased their labor intensive production and exports, their current account surpluses rose by almost 3.6 percentage points, on average, between 1989 1993 and 2002 2006. China s current account surplus increased by almost 11 percentage points over the same period, India s by 2.5 percentage points, and Russia s by seven percentage points.

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The employment rate for indigenous women also increased between 1996 and 2001 (by 2.7 percentage points to 36.7 per cent), while the unemployment rate for this group fell by 2.6 percentage points to 17.6 per cent.

In terms of investment, the International Monetary Fund predicts that a disruption in China s investment boom will adversely affect its trading partners. A drop of one percentage point in China s investment rate is estimated to reduce Taiwan s GDP growth rate by 0.9 percentage points and Korea s by 0.6 percentage points.

Seventeen percentage points of this rise can be accounted for by higher inflation, and eight percentage points through a revaluation of the lira conducted prior to the introduction of the euro. Relative to Germany, Italy became a whopping 42 more expensive.

Among them, China s manufacturing PMI was 50.8 , falling back 0.5 percentage points from the previous month.

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This figure had risen to 46 in 2001 2002, seven percentage points higher than three years before.

Over the last three years (2011 2013), the US economy grew by about six percentage points more. Even taking into account the increasing demographic differential, which now amounts to about half a percentage point per year, the US economy has grown by about 4.5 percentage points more over these three years on a per capita basis.

This comprised 13.6 of total retail sales of consumer goods, up nearly 3 percentage points year on year.

If you just take four percentage points and put it into this basket, you would have a transformative effect.

Among them, the total import and export volume of emerging services was 1,138.39 billion yuan, with an increase of 20.9 , which was 10.4 percentage points higher than the overall growth rate of import and export of services, and the proportion of promotion for emerging services increased by nearly 3 percentage points.

Because of regional instability and political tension, West Asia, on average, has lost 2 percentage points of growth per year since 1980.

Overall growth in East and North East Asia in 2004 climbed to 7.5 per cent, 1.3 percentage points higher than in 2003.

As a result, the differential between growth in the emerging and advanced economies aggregated from IMF data, and including Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan in the emerging group has declined considerably. Indeed, after averaging three percentage points for two decades and rising to 4.8 percentage points in 2010, the percentage point differential fell to 2.5 last year and is expected to amount to just 1.5 this year.

GDP growth in South East Asia in 2004 exceeded expectations and improved on 2003 growth by the wide margin of 1.5 percentage points.

If it falls 40 against the yen sometime in the next ten years, US long term interest rates should be four percentage points higher than Japanese rates. If it falls 60 against China s currency, the yuan, sometime in the next ten years, US long term interest rates should be six percentage points higher than Chinese rates.

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Northern Europe could tolerate higher inflation an extra two percentage points for five years would take care of one third of the total north south adjustment

Recent Statistics Canada reports show that the wage gap has been reduced for full time female workers in Ontario by approximately six percentage points since l987.

Hardest to understand, though, is why India is underperforming so much relative to its potential. Indeed, annual GDP growth has fallen by five percentage points since 2010.

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The industries with high energy consumption and high pollution decline by 2 percentage points while hi tech industry, equipment manufacturing industry and consumer products industry keep growing steadily and quickly.

The import of emerging services increased rapidly, accounting for 23.6 of service import, with an increase of 1.6 percentage points over the same period last year from January to August.

Thus, 4.3 percentage points of the initial average difference of 27.4 can be attributed to the differences in the human capital of men and women, and to other observable factors.

In the period covered by this report, the participation of women in the EAP increased by 2.3 percentage points, from 55.2 per cent in 1999 to 57.5 per cent in 2001.

With household consumption accounting for about 70 of the US economy, that 2.7 percentage point gap between pre crisis and post crisis trends has been enough to knock 1.9 percentage points off the post crisis trend in real GDP growth. Look no further for the cause of unacceptably high US unemployment.

This is a substantial difference, especially considering that China s per capita GDP amounts to only 19 of Japan s at its highest level, and that its debt has already reached 60 of Japan s. Moreover, the accumulation of debt in China 71 percentage points of GDP over the last five years has been far sharper than in Japan, where the debt level grew by only 16 percentage points over the five year period before its bust.

The degree of financial repression in a country can be estimated by calculating the gap between the average nominal GDP growth rate and the average long term interest rate, with a larger gap indicating more severe repression. In the last 20 years, this gap has been eight percentage points for China, compared to roughly four percentage points on average for emerging economies and nearly zero for most developed economies, where interest rates are fully liberalized.

Emerging estimates of the total fiscal costs of rescue vary by country, but are usually just a few percentage points of GDP. As a result of this crisis, however, government debt to GDP ratios in the United Kingdom and the United States will likely rise by 40 to 50 percentage points, and more important measures of economic harm foregone GDP growth, additional unemployment, and individuals wealth and income losses will rise as well.

The main reason for the gap is the difference in private consumption, which grew in the US, but fell in the eurozone, especially in its periphery. A retrenchment of public consumption actually subtracted more demand in the US (0.8 percentage points) than in the European Union (0.1 points).

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It is not only the relative rankings that differ. Sometimes, one source will show a country growing by several percentage points, and another source will show it shrinking over the same time period.

The Reaching Every District approach, promoted jointly by WHO and UNICEF, appears to have contributed to coverage increases, and 20 countries saw coverage rise by 5 10 percentage points from 2001 to 2003.

However, the Group was disappointed to note that the percentages of staff from Africa and from Asia and the Pacific had increased by only three percentage points each during the period 2001 2004.

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The new export orders index and import index were 48.0 and 48.5 , respectively 1.4 and 0.6 percentage points lower than the previous month, and the boom degree fell to the low of the year.

In particular, the euro has its own all too obvious problems. Indeed, the euro s share in reserve holdings and foreign exchange transactions have both declined by several percentage points in the most recent statistics.

These are just some of the better known examples. Looking at the experience of more than 100 countries, I have found in my research that each 10 undervaluation adds 0.3 percentage points to growth.

In terms of service export, the service export continued its rapid growth momentum since this year, and the export growth rate was 5.7 percentage points higher than the import growth rate from January to August.

But the growth fillip from public sector infrastructure spending can only be modest. Increasing infrastructure spending by a quarter, which would represent a huge administrative effort, would lift GDP growth by just 0.4 percentage points.

Over the past decade, China has accounted for an average of 1.6 percentage points of world GDP growth per year more than double the combined 0.7 percentage point contribution of the so called advanced economies. Even if its GDP growth slows to 6.8 this year, China would account for slightly more growth than is likely from the advanced world.

Although the region s poverty rate has decreased by 10 percentage points in the last decade, 180 million people remain below the line, more than 70 million are still indigent, and a large percentage remains just above the poverty line. Thus, soaring food and fuel prices are likely to upset efforts by governments to improve income distribution and social cohesion.

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