Sentences with phrase «capita giving»

While per - capita giving increases in most churches each year, the gains do not keep up with horrendous inflation.

According to the World Refugee Survey 1988, it ranks only ninth in per capita giving among nations contributing to international refugee funds.

In the US, per capita giving has declined from 3.8 % in 1968 to 2.4 % in 2014, despite the fact that our levels of discretionary income have increased dramatically within this same period.

We need, then, to analyze per - capita giving.

According to National Council of Churches statistics (which appear not to include Pentecostal churches), five of the top eight denominations in per capita giving are Holiness bodies.

Not exact matches

It was a bold promise given that per capita GDP is below US$ 2,000 and nearly a third of children under five are malnourished, according to the United Nations.

That's the per capita figure for the $ 1.1 billion in territorial formula financing (equalization payments) given to Nunavut in the 2011 - 2012 fiscal year.

Cele adds that, although China, the largest steel producer and iron - ore consumer, has experienced hiccups, Chinese steel consumption is still expected to grow in the current decade given the rate and levels of urbanisation and GDP per capita growth.

«We give more per capita than any other profession,» says CREA's Pierre Leduc.

Who gives a damn if the atheist rate is higher per capita, the REAL NUMBERS are 70 out of 100 babies are being killed by someone who is religious.

While the aggregate figure for charitable giving may have risen, giving on a per capita basis may be declining.

What can be presented as a rise in giving in aggregate form may actually appear as a decline in giving when presented, for example, on a per capita basis.

Sen gives examples of countries with relatively high income per capita but low quality of life (South Africa, Singapore) and others with relatively low income per capita but high quality of life (Sri Lanka, Costa Rica).

While the person may have been living on $ 50k here in the United States, they now get people to give them $ 100k or more per year so they can go live in a country where the average annual per capita income is less than $ 5k.

U.S. government leaders and an «objective» press described the Sandinistas in Nicaragua as «communist,» «Marxist,» «Marxist / Leninist,» «totalitarian,» «Cuban - backed,» or «Soviet - backed» so often that few U.S. citizens knew that Sweden was giving more aid to Nicaragua per capita than to any other country or that while Nicaragua does have both a Communist party and a Marxist - Leninist party these two parties together received less than 3 percent of the vote and are distinct from and hostile to the Sandinista party.

-- Christians are only giving at 2.5 percent per capita, while during the Great Depression they gave at a 3.3 percent rate.

Republicans are consistently shown to pay more in taxes AND private charitable giving, when measures in total per capita dollars and income percentage, and when compared to Democrats at the same income level.

For example, in 1995 (the most recent year for which data are available), Americans gave, per capita, three and a half times as much to causes and charities as the French, seven times as much as the Germans, and 14 times as much as the Italians.

Dangote is a passionate arsenal fan, so is usmanov — but one is currently gathering capita from oil refineries, the other is considered to have too many criminal roots to be given a chance to hold a majority of the shares, and isn't even allowed to be a board member

The NYT: «New York lawmakers are balking at a bill submitted by (Cuomo) to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 18... But legislators in Louisiana, which imprisons the most citizens per capita and has the worst record in the country for meting out life sentences to adolescents, are giving a similar bill a warm, bipartisan reception.»

The number of refugees in Lebanon is estimated to make up a third of its population, giving it the largest concentration per capita in the world.

Given the high per capita carbon emissions in the US, this is not a good thing.

This is especially the case in Galway; there are over twice as many users per capita here than Ireland as a whole, giving you plenty of choices when it comes to your search for that special someone.

If a given country's per - capita growth rate is 1 percentage point faster than average, economists attribute only 0.06 percentage points of this to the fact that human capital has grown faster than average.

States vary sharply in the size of their per - capita GDP, that is, the total value of goods and services produced within a given year divided by the number of residents.

My own favorite idea is, «either give Mom and Dad the choices in the law or, as a last resort, assign their per capita amount to the school of their choice!»

However, given the importance of public - welfare and health spending indicated by my findings, and the large increase in state spending on Medicaid (an increase of more than $ 1,000 per capita since 1987 based on figures from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services), it is safe to conclude that Medicaid has been the single biggest contributor to the decline in higher - education support at the state and local level.

According to the Latest report by Dr. Ahmed Shaheed, the UN human rights rapporteur, ever since Rouhani became the president of Iran, a surge in executions has given Iran the world's highest death penalty rate per capita.

The proposed formula would measure states» fiscal effort — how much they spend on education given their resources — based on total dollars rather than per - capita dollars.

Amazon points out that it's the city that gave the world the Backstreet Boys (as well as «N Sync), and that per capita, it's the # 1 city in America for purchasing pop music.

There's also one bar for every 3,703 people in the city, which gives it one of the highest bars per capita rates in the country.

To give you an idea of which cities offer the most variety, we considered the number of restaurants per capita for each location.

When you give to our scholarship program, you fund the education of veterinarians and veterinary students in developing nations with a per capita income of less than $ 8,000 USD.

Finding a place to eat or drink in Kimberley is not difficult given the fact that it's home to the most number of restaurants per capita than anywhere else in Canada.

Qatar GDP (PPP) per capita — $ 124,930 Qatar ranks first on top richest country in the world list with the population of 2.27 million giving the total GDP of approx $ 124,930 per person.

GDP per capita is often used to measure the quality of life in a given country.

Some seem inescapably linear (say, land per capita required within a given agricultural model).

Given the high per capita carbon emissions in the US, this is not a good thing.

The comments about rich versus poor give me an opportunity to replay a letter I wrote to a newspaper yesterday — a scientist from a corporation with a very strong climate policy mentioned that affluence increases per capita emissions.

However, the idea that other, now developing countries must be given the right to emit as much — per capita or per $, even without trade, etc...

More than a few times, Indian diplomats and officials have told me they bristle every time they see India lumped with China in discussions of obligations to eschew fossil fuels, given that India's per - capita energy use is less than a third that of China.

Perhaps humankind is called upon to regulate the global growth of its numbers, its per capita consumption and its propagation so that we find a balanced relationship with nature and, consequently, give this marvelous planetary home the time it requires to renew itself.

Surely it would be good to give incentives for countries to control both population and carbon emissions as you can have decreasing carbon emissions per capita for instance completely wiped out or worse by increasing population.

At any given level of technology, there is a trade - off between how many people can be born into a society and the level of per capita physical affluence that can be sustainably supported.

Given the county's relatively high per - capita emissions of greenhouse gases, mostly due to transportation and heavy industries, Iceland's leaders see reforestation as an avenue toward meeting the nation's climate goals.

Perhaps leaders are now called upon to lead by reasonably and sensibly limiting the global growth of human numbers, per capita consumption and endlessly expanding production capabitities so that we find a balanced relationship with nature and, consequently, give this marvelous planetary home God has blessed us to inhabit the time it requires for self - renewal.

Of course, that is impossible to do immediately, and for the short term current carbon quotas must be largely based on a per capita measure, but over the longer term, that should change to a per hectare measure — which would give all countries significant incentive to reduce, and eventually reverse, their population growth.

However, it would be a bit unrealistic to imagine that countries like China and India would agree to stop increasing emissions at the same year as the U.S. (given their considerably smaller per - capita emissions).

It also ethically dubious for the US to insist that it can demand that other nations must agree to make reductions in their manufacturing sectors consistent with US reductions in the US manufacturing sector given that almost all nations in the world have lower total and per capita GHG emissions than the United States.

Tying future human CO2 growth projections to human population growth projections and adding in a 30 % estimated increase in per capita CO2 emissions by 2100, gives you a CO2 level of 640 ppmv (or a bit higher than IPCC case B2).