Sentences with phrase «average global income»

An estimated 8 million people worldwide die due to air pollution while climate change is linked to over 3.5 million deaths and will lead to a possible 23 % loss in average global income by the end of the century.

Not exact matches

Ramona Persaud, manager of Fidelity's Global Equity Income Fund, likes the company's «shrewd» instincts and its knack for delivering a return on capital «far superior to the market,» an average of about 27 % over the past five years.

Reseachers at the global professional services firm said they based their conclusions on a number of «key» economic and demographic factors — from average income levels and population to the number of ski resorts per capita, level of snow coverage and recent «form» at the Winter Olympics.

The survey found 69 percent of expats in Switzerland saw an improvement in their work - life balance, while the average expat income in Switzerland was $ 188,275, compared to a global average of $ 97,419.

Some of his favorite stories looked at facial bias, the philosophy of Peter Thiel, Chinese ghost cities, self - driving car ethics, the average family on earth, Wikipedia hoax - hunters, income inequality, bleak futurism, cooking with MSG, global communication patterns, Somali pirates, the crucifixion of Tony Stark, and the worst hotel in New York.

The fund had only six equivalent positions: in the Vanguard Health Care ETF (VHT; average weight of 54.4 %), iShares Global Healthcare ETF (IXJ; 28 %), iShares 7 - 10 Year Treasury Bond ETF (IEF; 7.6 %; representing the fixed - income holdings), iShares MSCI Japan ETF (EWJ; 5.7 %), Vanguard Utilities ETF (VPU; 2.3 %; also representing fixed - income investments), and iShares North American Tech - Software ETF (IGV; 2 %; helping explain the remainder of the fund's returns).

My income level is, while substantial when compared to the global average, certainly not overtly high.

Some performance highlights of the year included; Rasmala Global Sukuk Fund, which generated a net return for investors of 4.97 per cent; the Rasmala GCC Fixed - Income Fund, which produced a net return of 6.83 per cent and Rasmala Leasing Funds 1 and 2, which have to date paid average annual cash distributions of 12 per cent and 9.2 per cent respectively.

There is no modelling of any orbital variations in incoming energy, either daily, yearly or long term Milankovitch variations, based on the assumption that a global yearly average value has a net zero change over the year which is imposed on the energy forcing at the TOA and the QFlux boundary etc..

Orbital forcing causes ice ages or ends them by redistributing incoming solar radiation over seasons and latitudes so that ice sheet growth or decay is more or less favorable on a regional basis, with a resulting global average albedo feedback.)

Would not then these very different percentages of both incoming and outgoing L - W and S - W radiation and different responses, to increased Co-2, produce very different results then using straight line global averages?

Would it not then be a mistake to assume a global average incoming watt per sq - m solar radiation and global average outgoing L - W radiation and global average Greenhouse effect for Co-2 and apply those global numbers to the tropics, when a higher percentage of both LW and SW radiation is in tropical latitudes where that increase in CO-2 has less effect?

While the richest income class in this study, earning more than 30,000 rupees a month, produce slightly less than the global average CO2 emissions of 5 tonnes, this amount already exceeds the sustainable global average CO2 emissions of 2.5 tonnes per capita that needs to be reached to limit global warming below 2 degrees centigrade.

The IPCC study, which has been leaked to a number of news agencies, reportedly added that the potential economic losses following average global temperature rise of 2.5 degrees Celsius could reach 2 percent of global income, but delaying action will increase both risks and costs.

As the report notes, it is likely that this global average will be balanced by relatively lower rebounds in rich, demand - saturated countries and relatively higher rebounds in industrializing poor and middle - income countries.

Solar Radiation Management (SRM) or «albedo modification» is a class of technologies that could lower global average temperatures and offset some of the worst impacts of climate change by reflecting a portion of incoming solar radiation back into space before that radiation could be trapped by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

But the «do - good» mindset has no income bracket, and average consumers do care about the environmental and social justice issues that have increasing salience with the global community.

Average fee income for a Global 100 practice was $ 799.2 m, up from $ 785.3 m in 2008.