The proportion of income received in the last quarter of 2004 was 22 per cent higher than that received in the last quarter of 2003.

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Chinese demand increased 36 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2004, year on year.28

Unemployment remained high, and even increased slightly to 32 per cent during the first quarter of 2005.

In Palestine, unemployment remained high, at an estimated 28.6 per cent in the second quarter of 2004.

During the first quarter of 2005, imports through Karni declined by 18 per cent and exports by 39 per cent compared with the same quarter in 2004.5 Internal checkpoints restricted movement between the northern, central and southern parts of the Gaza Strip.

Quarter after quarter the macroeconomic news from the United States teaches the same lesson real GDP growth at a sustained rate of 3 per year is not enough to increase America's employment level.

In the first quarter of 2005, rice rose from the official price of 23 per 50 kilograms to more than 40.

Although inflation declined to 7.5 per cent at the beginning of the year, as opposed to 14.4 per cent at the end of 2004, it increased to 11.1 per cent at the end of the second quarter of 2005.

Lower mortgage rates have also boosted private construction and real estate development with an increase of 90 per cent in the first quarter of 2004.30

In the first quarter of 2004, 8,761 women or 2.6 per cent of women receiving old age pensions were in receipt of early retirement pensions.

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Meanwhile, the average percentage value of cash assistance requisitions issued in the last quarter of the year, as reported by country offices, continued to improve, from 31 per cent in 2002 to 27 per cent in 2004.

The World Bank1 estimates that roughly a quarter of the world's poor and 90 per cent of the poorest depend substantially on forests for their livelihoods.

Second quarter German GDP has stalled after a surprisingly strong first quarter.

From 1973 to 1985, US energy consumption per dollar of GDP declined by 28 five times faster than during the previous quarter century, according to the DOE.

In 2012, wages were estimated at about 160 per month, about one fifth of the South Korean minimum wage, and about a quarter of typical Chinese wages.

As far as industries are concerned, one quarter of all Internet sales took place in the wholesale trade sector, followed by transportation and warehousing (17 per cent).

This shortfall, together with a 17 per cent rise in public sector wage costs, left an estimated 160 million financial gap by the fourth quarter of 2004, resulting in a 57 per cent increase in public sector bank borrowing.

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 .

Israel drew one quarter of its water from the Jordan River, despite the fact that only 3 per cent of the river flows inside its pre 1967 borders.

Internal revenues of the Palestinian Authority were strong, reaching pre September 2000 levels by the third quarter of 2004, with gross revenue up 30 per cent from 2003.

The key word here is should. Today s 100 million Mexicans have real incomes at purchasing power parity of roughly 10,000 per year, a quarter of the current US level.

One quarter (26 per cent) of the responding States had reviewed, simplified or otherwise strengthened procedures for the protection of judges and prosecutors and 20 per cent had done so in connection with the protection of surveillance personnel and law enforcement officers.

Taken together, African politics, demography, and the delayed arrival of new technologies imposed severe headwinds against per capita growth of agricultural output in the last quarter of the twentieth century.

His Government had undertaken improvements to the Karni border crossing between Gaza and Israel, which had facilitated the export of Palestinian products into Israel, and had reduced the level of unemployment in Gaza by 8.5 per cent in the second quarter of 2005 compared to the equivalent quarter the previous year.

a quarter of a millimeter.

A quarter million? A million?

According to UNDP, a quarter of the Haitian territory is at risk of grave erosion and deforestation has reached an alarming level 97 per cent of the country's watersheds are completely deforested.

First, there was a 2.2 annualized decline from the first quarter of 2008 through the second quarter of 2009.

Data collection took place during the first quarter in nine countries, with two more beginning in the second quarter.

GDP growth then fell to 3.7 in the first quarter of 2010 and to only 1.7 in the second quarter.

Adjusted for depreciation of the United States dollar and price inflation, the 18.4 per cent annual increase of ODA reported for 2003 relative to 2002 falls to about a quarter of that figure.

When asset prices move, firms that own these assets are forced to revalue them on their balance sheets quarter by quarter.

The quarterly growth rate decelerated from 13 in the fourth quarter of 2008 to 9 in the third quarter of 2009.

But the fourth quarter was very different.

Indeed, the rate of economic contraction in the fourth quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of 2009 reached near depression levels.

It is easy to forget how critical things were back in the fourth quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of 2009.

The enhanced functionalities are expected to be implemented progressively in Atlas between the fourth quarter of 2005 and second quarter of 2006.

The American Quarter Horse is the most popular breed in the United States today, and the American Quarter Horse Association is the largest breed registry in the world, with more than 5 million American Quarter Horses registered.

They are doing that on a quarter of the resources that are used typically in the Western world a quarter of the resources.

Today, less than a quarter are located there.

These efforts led to major improvements in energy efficiency. From 1973 to 1985, US energy consumption per dollar of GDP declined by 28 five times faster than during the previous quarter century, according to the DOE.

5. Further welcomes the assessment by the Caribbean Development Bank in its 1999 report on the Territory that, despite economic contraction in the first quarter, the economy rebounded to reach 6 per cent growth during 1999