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.

If that swung by two percentage points as the government and the central bank want to a positive 1 inflation rate, the interest rate would also increase by about two percentage points.

The unemployment rate remains more than two percentage points above the normal rate (when the economy is operating near capacity).

In 2006, France s unemployment rate was 9.4 , a full percentage point higher than Germany s.

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.

But then the saving rate fell by a full percentage point, reaching 5.3 in December 2010.

Historically, the real interest rate on ten year Treasuries has been above 2 thus, today s rate is about two percentage points below its historical average.

The March unemployment rate of 8.2 was nearly three percentage points above what most economists would consider a desirable and sustainable long run level rate.

They estimate that a slowdown of one percentage point in China s annual growth rate would reduce low income countries growth rates by 0.3 percentage points almost a third as much.

Africa s poverty rate in 2003 exceeds that of the next poorest region, South Asia, by 17 percentage points.

From 1993 to 1998, the US created millions of jobs, which raised the employment rate by 5.4 percentage points.

In June, pork prices rose 57 year on year, contributing nearly two percentage points to the overall inflation rate.

By high school, the rate is about 15 percentage points higher for African Americans and Hispanics than for whites.

Northern Cyprus, like Turkey, offers a 2.5 percentage point refund on VAT, compared to the standard VAT rate of 13 .

But each percentage point reduction in the corporate tax rate would reduce federal revenues by about 12 billion per year.

Ten year government bonds in Greece and Ireland, for example, now pay nearly a full percentage point above the rate on comparable German bonds, and Italy s rate is almost as high.

That is, China s annual GDP growth rate would drop by four percentage points if its exports did not grow at all.

For example, an increase in government size by ten percentage points is associated with a 0.5 1 lower annual growth rate.

The unemployment rate in the US and the eurozone has increased by about the same amount as well three percentage points.

By the time students reach high school, the retention rate for boys is about ten percentage points higher than for girls.

The average high debt episodes since 1800 last 23 years and are associated with a growth rate more than one percentage point below the rate typical for periods of lower debt levels.

This means that the dollar s 5 fall so far this year will add only half a percentage point to the inflation rate.

Thus, net exports contributed 10.8 to China s overall GDP growth rate, or only about 1.1 percentage point of 9 growth in 2008.

Arguing that it could increase Europe s annual economic growth rate by half a percentage point, they declared that formal negotiations would start quickly.

China s gross saving rate (the percentage of GDP that is not consumed immediately), which includes both public and private saving, is around 50 .

BEIJING Measured by the percentage of people living in its cities, China s urbanization rate currently stands at about 48 , according to official statistics.

A one year cut of the payroll tax rate by two percentage points was enacted in order to lock in this favorable outlook.

But the interest rate that Greece must pay buyers of its government bonds has shot up to a record high level of nearly 9 5.9 percentage points above the benchmark rate paid by Germany.

Historically, a 10 fall in the dollar translates into only a one percentage point rise in inflation. This means that the dollar s 5 fall so far this year will add only half a percentage point to the inflation rate.

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.

11. Also decides that Montenegro shall contribute at the rate of one twelfth of this percentage for each full month of membership in 2006

Annual core inflation for Asia (excluding Japan) was running at a 4 rate in late 2010 up about one percentage point from late 2009.

At its most recent policy meeting, the ECB left its policy rate unchanged, citing inflation half a percentage point above the official 2 target.

According to the World Bank, in the 30 years after Deng Xiaoping initiated economic reform, investment accounted for 6 8 percentage points of the country s 9.8 average annual economic growth rate, while improved productivity contributed only 2 4 percentage points.

Assuming a flat rate of national contributions to the federal budget, Greece, for example, would shed 2 3 precious percentage points from its public deficit.

Since entering the euro zone in 2001, social welfare expenditures increased at an annual rate that was 3.6 percentage points higher than that of GDP growth.

However, this is no longer applied since the central bank started changing rates by 0.25 percentage points on October 19, 2010 (which was a rate increase).

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To date, the premiums charged are small for an overnight loan of 100 million, even a one percentage point spread in the interest rate is only 3000.

2. Decides that, from 2001, the flat annual fee percentage for the Holy See should be set at 25 per cent of the approved notional rate of assessment.

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Moreover, the relatively high population growth rate 24.5 births per 1,000 is leading to an increase in the number of young people as a percentage of the total population.