Sentences with phrase «lower than countries»

Early analysis by the World Bank Group shows that financial savings by countries working collectively through Article 6 can be 30 % lower than countries working on their own to meet their respective mitigation targets.

Iowa's capital is the only one out of the 100 largest metro areas with a COL 25 % (82.70) lower than the country's normal score.

With a COL 12 % (88) lower than the country's normal score; a jobless rate of 3.40; and a job growth of 0.64 %, Omaha doesn't fall far from the top.

Not exact matches

Two more years of economic pain Australia faces a longer period of low growth, higher debt and higher unemployment than predicted just four weeks ago as the wave of job losses gathered strength, with clothing manufacturer Pacific Brands axing 1850 staff across the country.

Around the turn of the millennium, Fernandes was sitting in a London bar, when he saw entrepreneur Stelios Haji - Ioannou, who is famous for creating easyJet, a low - cost airline which now flies more than 75 million passengers annually, across 31 countries.

Canada's productivity is much lower than that of other countries, and we don't really know why.

Not only is Chile's tax system easier to navigate than that of other Latin American countries, says Skinner, its corporate tax rate is the lowest in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Much the year - end maneuvering noted by the Rockefeller Institute involved the country's millionaires and billionaires rearranging their finances to maximize the portion of their income that would be taxed in 2012, at lower rates, rather than in 2013, at potentially higher rates.

Yet for those making more than $ 150,000, Seattle is the fourth lowest in the country.

I wondered how the product would do in a country that ranks lower than Rwanda when it comes to upload speeds.

Between 2004 and 2009, the Internet contributed 10 % to the country's GDP growth, far lower than the average of 21 % across other industrialized countries.

According to de la Madrid, top resorts were exposed to lower levels of risk than the country in general and tourists understood this.

In that vein, the company is very much a market disruptor, and this is even true in developed countries where it routinely releases Nexus phones and tablets with significantly lower prices than competitors.

«There are certain advantages towards using second citizenship to create residence in countries where tax burdens would be lower than where you are at the current time.»

Some of the issues I identified with the network equipment maker's Virtual Networking Index included the unlikelihood that Canadians use the internet more than Americans; Japan's similarly head - scratching low usage; the unexplained projections of how traffic is expected to grow in different countries; and why internet leaders such as the Nordic countries were grouped into a generic «Western Europe» category that may have skewed the entire study.

Although designs and processes usually originate in each company's home country — as do most of the founding management teams — the barriers between local and international staff are much more permeable than in low - skills manufacturing.

With the president aspiring to lower taxes for both businesses and individuals, it seems clear Trump is looking for the government to redistribute even less wealth in this country than it has in the past.

Infosys, which employs more than 200,000 workers worldwide, was under the spotlight last year as President Donald Trump targeted the American H - 1B visa program that tech companies have heavily relied upon to temporarily bring in workers from other countries at lower wages.

Just four OECD countries had a lower tax bite than the U.S.: South Korea, Ireland, Chile and Mexico.

For the sake of simplicity, let's assume our median American home owner pays a median American property tax of 1 percent of the home value per year — which is lower than many countries surrounding major metros.

The Algarve, Portugal, is the top retirement option in Western Europe for the retiree on a budget — the cost of living in Portugal is on average 30 percent lower than in any other country on the Continent.

(Despite America's love of a good rags - to - riches story, the data backs him up that social mobility is actually lower in the U.S. than in many other developed countries.)

It said U.K. GDP would be more than 3 percent smaller by 2020 than if the country remained in the EU and more than 5 percent lower by 2030.

The collapse, the third catastrophic incident at Bangladeshi factories in five months that have killed more than 200 people, could taint Bangladesh's reputation as a source of low - cost products and services and call attention to Western retailers and other companies that obtain products from the country.

If you're manufacturing in the U.S., you'll need to find a manufacturing facility and you'll have to pay workers more than their counterparts in lower - wage countries.

Over the last six years, more than nine of 10 journalists were killed in countries that scored lower than 45 on the index, and one in five journalists who died was covering a story about corruption.

Some criminals decide how much you must pay as a data ransom based on where you live - if you are in the USA you'll be charged more than if you live in a country with lower incomes.

Forty years ago UNICEF figured out that promoting simple, low - cost interventions like hand - washing and breastfeeding could save millions of lives, and its mission has helped children in more than 190 countries and territories.

The country's currency slid below 70 U.S. cents last week, causing some to recall early 2002, when Canadian officials were forced to beg international investors to recognize that the inherent value of Canada's currency was greater than 63 US cents, the record low to which it had fallen at the time.

No English - speaking country surveyed by the Institute had a payment rate of more than 10 %, and some were substantially lower than that, including the U.K. at just 7 %.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

Canadian softwood lumber entering the States will now be subject to a 20.83 % tariff after the two countries failed to reach a mutually agreeable arrangement (though this duty is lower than an earlier, interim tariff).

Even corporations in high - tax European countries such as Belgium (34 percent), France (34.4 percent), and Sweden (22 percent) face much lower rates than those in the United States.

China may have played an early card in this week's trade summit with the United States as officials pegged the yuan at the lowest levels against the greenback in more than three months as the country's trade surplus swells to $ 58.25 billion.

The country might be moving away from that model now: Consumption is growing robustly and worker compensation is rising faster than inflation, while unemployment stays at historic lows.

Canada's youth unemployment rate is already much lower than many advanced countries.

A purchasing managers index for factories across more than 40 countries rose to 53.5 in April from March's six - month low of 53.3, IHS Markit said in a report on Wednesday.

It could be that other countries» productivity gains in steel production have been greater than ours, or their labor costs are lower, i.e., our unit labor costs are not so competitive.

BERLIN — Throughout the month, countries caught in the eye of the European financial storm, including Italy, Spain and France, have repeatedly defied expectations, selling big batches of bonds to the public at interest rates significantly lower than investors demanded at the height of the euro crisis late last year.

In the Fall Update, the government will not only be able to show the elimination of the deficit (something no other G - 7 country has achieved) one year earlier than targeted, but also to show a declining debt ratio, rapidly approaching the government's target of 25 per cent, the lowest since the 1960s

«Kanye looks and he sees black unemployment at the lowest it's been in the history of our country... he sees that and he's smart, and he says Trump is doing a much better job than the Democrats did,» the president added.

And as late as 2011, Stephen Harper's position was that no pipeline should be built to the B.C. coast as no bitumen should be exported to countries with lower environmental standards than those in Canada.

For those who argue that China is poor because capital stock per worker in China is much lower than in the advanced countries, and that China should aggressively increase investment to close the gap, the findings in this paper ought to be surprising.

There are so many reasons why this is wrong (to list just the most obvious, poor countries have much lower debt thresholds than rich countries, Japanese debt can not possibly be dismissed as not being a problem, and because it is almost impossible to find an economist who understands the relationship between nominal interest rates and implicit amortization, Japanese government debt has probably only been manageable to date because GDP growth close to zero has permitted interest rates close to zero) and yet inane comparisons between China's debt burden and Japan's debt burden are made all the time.

Energy experts say it is unlikely that the tariffs will create more than a small number of American solar manufacturing jobs, since low - wage countries will continue to have a competitive edge.

The reason tax mix matters is because it explains the Nordic countries, who have much larger public sectors than does Canada, so much so that according to the usual Fraser Institute logic that lower taxes overall would lead to faster economic growth, they ought to be complete basket cases.

This pan-European low cost airline, headquartered in London, has revolutionised European air travel over the last two decades and it is now flying over 75 million passengers per year across 31 countries with a fleet of more than 260 aircraft.

Even with the recent increase, at No. 36 on the list, Indiana is enjoying lower gas prices than most of the country.

A look at how one low - cost — but high - performance — artificial knee has already changed the lives of more than 7,000 amputees in more than a dozen countries.

While the country has the world's third - largest ore reserves, it is importing more refined metal than it ships after output in July fell to the lowest on records going back to 1996, data show.