Sentences with phrase «gdp on»

There is a potential increase in real GDP on an annualized quarterly basis of up to approximately 0.3 percentage points.

During the second tenure, the USA president Barack Obama challenge the combined public and private sector to invest 3 % of the nation's GDP on research and development, thereby country remains as the leader in the field of Aerospace, computing and internet technology.

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We aren't willing to spend 5 % of GDP on a 1 in a million chance of that, and even less willing to spend that kind of money on an unlikely event that is adaptable to without major loss of life, just major economic (and social disruption and ecosystem) cost, should it strike.

But here's what the UNEP says rich and poor countries should focus on: Rich countries should spend their efforts to slash their use of fossil fuels to avert carbon emissions (rapidly rising nations such as China, India and Brazil should focus on this as well), while poorer nations should spend at least one percent of GDP on expanding access to clean water and improving sanitation for the poor.

Barbier's report recommended a global expenditure of 1 % GDP on green projects, from investments in alternative energy development to improvement of public transport or energy efficiencies.

A comparable example is the difference between being able to predict the exact value of the GDP on a given day (something determined largely by unpredictable day - to - day news) and projecting the average increase in the GDP over three decades (plausible estimates of which can be made using scenarios of long - term economic growth and ongoing innovation).

RCP 8.5 type temperature scenarios will cause damages that amount to 1 - 1.2 % of GDP on an annual basis per 1C of temperature increase from their 1980 - 2010 baseline.

Today, in advanced economies, fossil fuels do not get much the way of direct subsidies — although they do still exist, for example Germany spends 0.07 % of its GDP supporting coal and the US spends 0.05 % of its GDP on petroleum.

Taking a few individual countries for example, Belgium spends 0.2 % of its GDP on gas «post-tax» subsidies and 0.9 % of its GDP on coal subsidies; the UK spends 0.2 % on gas and 0.2 % on coal while the US spends 2.4 % of its GDP on petroleum subsidies, 0.2 % on gas and 0.6 % on coal (see page 57 of the full IMF report).

Nations joining the programme would commit to spending 0.02 % of GDP on the R&D and would get a place on a global commission that would coordinate and direct the research to avoid duplication.

The UK already spends 0.02 % of its GDP on clean energy, as do some other developed nations, but other countries do not and there is no international cooperation to maximise the results.

Continue spending 1 - 2 % of global GDP on subsidies that lead to unsustainable environmental practices, prop up fossil fuels, pesticide use, unsustainable fishing practices.

And while the U.S. spends 3 % of GDP on imported commodities, China spends 8 %.

I say, we need to spend 0.2 % of GDP on making the new technologies available.

Falling behind in our infrastructure investment The U.S. currently spends a minute 2.4 percent of GDP on new infrastructure projects.

If they go for a conventional grid, all I can say is they'll spend many times their GDP on copper.

The U.S. continues to urge each member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to meet its 2014 pledge to spend 2 % of GDP on defense by 2024.

Also, in the middle of the book, in WWII, the US spends far more than its GDP on the war.

Norway and Sweden spent nearly 2 % of their GDP on early education.

Jesus, I must have blown an allowance that added up to a small country's GDP on Batman merch.

I find it remarkable that we spend 16 % of GDP on health care, yet we have very little data on what works.

With India spending as little 0 · 1 % of its GDP on publicly funded drugs, close to two - thirds of the total out - of - pocket expenditure on health was incurred on drugs, often used irrationally.

As nations compete for economic growth opportunities, it appears that those who spend close to 3 % of their GDP on R&D are the ones that compete most successfully.

The Dutch government spends just 0.78 % of GDP on science.

On average, countries in the region spend 5.5 % of their GDP on health.

China recently achieved a 2 % science - spending level, as a percentage of its economy, but the country has a goal to invest 2.5 % of its GDP on R&D by 2020, he noted.

Even though France already spends 2.16 percent of GDP on R&D, studies were showing that both the quantity and quality of French research was declining.

By 2010 FP7 sets a goal to spend 2.6 percent of the EU's GDP on R&D projects.

South Korea also became the world's most R&D - intensive country in 2012, spending 4.36 % of its GDP on R&D, versus an OECD average of 2.4 %.

The nation spent 2.5 percent of GDP on R&D, a figure comfortably above the EU average of 1.9 percent, and the federal government pledged to boost R&D spending to 3 percent of GDP by 2010.

There is no doubt it is because Egypt spent 0.2 percent of its gdp on science and technology when it should have spent 2 percent [South Korea spent 3.2 percent of its gdp on science and technology in 2007].

David Cameron also said the government will spend 2 % of GDP on defence and will order four new Trident submarines.

Liberal Democrats also ensured the Coalition Government's commitment to spending 0.7 % of GDP on international aid, and passed legislation to enshrine that commitment into law.

In today's white paper Mr Alexander revealed the government planned to reach its millennium development goal of spending 0.7 per cent of GDP on aid by 2013, two years before the UN's deadline.

Last year it spent 3.6 % of its GDP on defence, the highest ratio of any NATO member (and the highest total military budget in the world by a hefty margin).

Unfortunately, we have paid a much higher percentage of our GDP on healthcare than other nations..

We are spending 2 % of GDP on defence and of course it's important we have done that over recent years given the less stable world.

Meeting our commitments on security: committing fully to the NATO alliance and spending 2 % of our GDP on defence.

The pair's speeches come a few days after Liz Kendall voiced support of free schools and pledged to meet the Nato target of spending 2 per cent of GDP on defence.

First, changes made to the Conservatives under David Cameron's leadership had drawn the parties closer together: a new stress on the environment, a sympathy for civil liberties, the commitment to spend at least 0.7 % of GDP on overseas aid (this last shift took place under Michael Howard, but Mr Cameron projected it in a way that his predecessor had not).

Britain is one of just four Nato member states which spend two per cent of more of their GDP on defence spending.

We already pay a higher percentage of our GDP on health care (with weaker measurable outcomes) than every other advanced economy.

The government guarantee of 0.7 % of GDP on aid spending, which functions as a litmus test of the Conservatives» moral responsibility in an age of austerity, also creates perverse incentives.

The USA spends ~ 3.3 % of its GDP on defense.

They have all committed to spend a minimum of two percent of their GDP on defense, higher than that of many current allies.

And it is why I have already raised with my fellow European leaders the need to deliver on their commitments to spend 2 % of their GDP on defence — and 20 % of their defence budgets on equipment.

In the last ten years (1999 - 2009) Greece has spent 3.7 % of its GDP on defence, more than one percentage point more than any other European nation.

Why do most NATO members fail to spend the agreed target of 2 % of GDP on defense?

Mr Speaker, more jobs means that the impact of the weaker than forecast GDP on the public finances has been less than some might have expected.