Sentences with phrase «rates in a number of countries»

Many continue to expect a continuation of low rates of inflation and low interest rates, despite quite low unemployment rates in a number of countries.

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The number of nonfarm payroll jobs in Florida grew 3.0 % between November 2014 and November 2015, the third - highest growth rate in the country.

However, South Carolina's number of nonfarm payroll jobs grew by 2.6 % between November 2014 and November 2015, the sixth - best rate of job creation in the country.

Beck, one of the highest - rated conservative radio hosts in the country and founder of TheBlaze, said he's sure «there are those who believe» what they say, but pointed to numbers when asked why so many of his colleagues — many of whom he calls friends — have embraced Trump.

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).

There are a number of countries — China not least among them — whose prospective rates of productivity growth over the decades ahead will surely mean a substantial increase in their real exchange rate.

The PowerShares Total Return Bond ETF is an actively managed fund with the ability to invest in any number of fixed income securities with varying credit ratings, countries, and durations.

The fertility rate as measured by the number of live births per woman in Europe has dropped substantially in a number of countries according to The Economist.

This is evident in a number of developments, including: increased demand for higher - risk assets; the increase in «carry trades» — a form of gearing where funds are borrowed short - term at low interest rates and invested in higher - yielding assets, often in other countries; growth in alternative investment vehicles such as hedge funds; and growth in alternative investment strategies such as selling embedded options (see Box A).

As ever in this country, the numbers are extraordinary — whether it's rate of growth or just the overall total.

Here's an interesting Bloomberg piece on what bond guru Bill Gross is calling «financial repression», but what you can just call «low interest rates» The big story is that the world is still crawling out of a near - depression, and there is not a central banker in the developed world who would dare dream of pushing interest rates to anything above a number you could count out on the fingers of one hand (and seriously, in most countries you could leave out the thumb and index finger as well).

One factor supporting the Australian dollar over the past couple of years has been that interest rates right across the yield curve in Australia, and perceived returns on other assets, have been higher than those in a number of other countries, particularly those which experienced a recession and a collapse of share prices in the early part of this decade.

The linking of Asian currencies to the US dollar has caused some consternation in both the US and Europe with the G7 statement being viewed by the market as a veiled attack on the exchange rate policies of a number of Asian countries.

Along with the pick - up in activity, there are tentative signs that conditions are improving in labour markets across the region, with the unemployment rate declining slightly in a number of countries.

Meanwhile, Spain announced Tuesday that the number of people registered as unemployed dropped for a fourth consecutive month in June - but the country has a long way to go to bring its jobless rate down to normal levels.

Regardless of the exact numbers, the Protestant rate of growth in this once - solidly Catholic country is striking.

Death rates fell in countries undergoing industrialization and the numbers of people in the world began to soar.

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Globally, over 220 million people suffer from food allergies and most countries report an increase in incidence.26 It is predicted that by 2050 the number of patients affected by allergic diseases in Australia will increase by 70 % to 7.7 million.27 By 2021, the markets for naturally healthy (US$ 291 billion), food intolerance (US$ 42 billion) and organic products (US$ 45 billion) are expected to have grown at up to 4.5 % compound annual growth rate (CAGR).28

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Still, all first - world countries have a maternal death rate somewhere on the order of one in 10,000 births, so you can use that as a general number.

This may appear high, but in fact this number represents the percentage of babies who have ever been breastfed even once, and the Philippines has the lowest «ever breastfed» rate among the 56 countries which have recorded such data.

Ohio has one of the highest infant mortality rate in the country, and the number of babies dying from sleep - related causes has actually increased in recent years.

One of these countries is the UK, which has one of the lowest breastfeeding rates in Europe, 2 with rates conspicuously below those of Scandinavian countries; only 22 % of UK infants receive any breast milk at age 6 months3 compared with 72 % in Sweden.4 Although a number of interventions have been introduced and targets set5 — 8 to increase rates of breastfeeding initiation and duration in the UK, evidence for their effectiveness is limited.

This is up by 44 % in 2011, as the current percentage only half shows that we have a long, long way to go but the highest numbers are in the Southeast and Southwest regions of the country with the rates of 39 % and 43 % respectively.

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«The credit rating is one of a number of ways in which people look at the country,» the prime minister's spokesperson said this morning.

Osborne told BBC Breakfast: «It wouldn't be a good thing but the credit rating is one of a number of ways in which people look at countries.»

That said, the general theme of a reduction of concern mirrors the trends in the crime survey of England and Wales, which shows continuing decline in crime rates and a steady drop in the numbers of people across the country highlighting anti-social behaviour as a problem in their local areas.

Falconer goes on to praise the emergency brake as «indicative of a prime minister who is aware that there are significant numbers of communities in this country who feel that immigration from the European Union is making their position worse rather than better», and describes changes to child benefit and exclusion from ever closer union rated as «sensible... I don't attack the deal he's done».

Thursday 14 March 2013 11 am Oral Questions Measures to force British companies to disclose any tax avoidance schemes that could be detrimental to poorer countries - Lord Collins of Highbury The findings of the Care Quality Commission's Home Care Inspection Review Not Just a Number - Baroness Wheeler Crime detection rates - Baroness Smith of Basildon Debate Afghanistan's regional relationships and their impact on its long - term future - Baroness Warsi Orders and Regulations Diocese in Europe Measure; Clergy Discipline (Amendment) Measure - The Lord Bishop of Newcastle Short Debate Impact on the UK of future demographic trends - Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts

The UK has seen greater decreases in the number of women dying from breast cancer than many other European countries over this period, though this is partly because death rates were relatively high in the 1980s.

«It wouldn't be a good thing but the credit rating is one of a number of ways in which people look at countries,» Osborne said.

In 2013 New York State again ranked third in number of TB cases, and its case rate (4.5 / 100,000) continues to be one of the highest in the countrIn 2013 New York State again ranked third in number of TB cases, and its case rate (4.5 / 100,000) continues to be one of the highest in the countrin number of TB cases, and its case rate (4.5 / 100,000) continues to be one of the highest in the countrin the country.

For instance, among the six largest countries, although the actual numbers of female deaths from lung cancer will still be the highest in the UK in 2016 than in the other large countries (at 16,400), the rate per 100,000 women has started to fall (from 20.15 per 100,000 in 2013 to 19.37 predicted in 2016), while death rates are still rising in the other countries.

Although global rates of maternal death have been dropping by about 1.5 percent each year since 1980, there is still a long way to go if countries hope to meet United Nations Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5 by 2015 — a 75 percent reduction in the number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births from 1990 levels.

Although the actual absolute numbers have increased when compared with 2009 (the year for which there are World Health Organization mortality data for most EU countries) due to the growing numbers of elderly people, the rate (age - standardised per 100,000 of the population) of people who die from the disease has declined from 148.3 male and 89.1 female deaths per 100,000 in 2009 to 138.1 deaths and 84.7 per 100,000 predicted for 2014.

The study finds that overwhelmingly the greatest risk of canine rabies is in the poorest countries; the death rate (deaths / 100,000 people) is highest in countries in sub-Saharan Africa, while India has the highest number of fatalities, with over 20,000 human deaths annually.

Fertility Rate is the average number of children born to a woman in a given country.

They calculated the number of deaths from the flu in each country by subtracting the average death rate during the pandemic years from those of the years before and after.

That number has since fallen by more than two thirds, to less than 2,500 square miles in 2011, which is the lowest rate of destruction since the country began keeping records in the late 1980s.

The authors have also estimated the so - called reproductive rate of the virus in each country, which represents the average number of people that each infected person in turn infects.

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A number of significant factors are well established: teaching is a high status profession in Finland; all teachers have a Masters degree; education is well funded by the state and free to all; school retention rates are high; and the country whose economic revival was led by companies such as Nokia had become a world leader in high level information technology applications, including in education.

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In a comparison of secondary - school completion rates in 1999, the United States trailed a large number of other countries and fell just slightly below the OECD average completion ratIn a comparison of secondary - school completion rates in 1999, the United States trailed a large number of other countries and fell just slightly below the OECD average completion ratin 1999, the United States trailed a large number of other countries and fell just slightly below the OECD average completion rate.

When we performed this analysis, we found, as other economists before us, that when the average number of years of schooling in a country was higher, the economy grew at a higher annual rate over subsequent decades.

But the district, one of the largest in the country, has seen explosive growth in the number of poor and immigrant student it serves, and passage rates for students with limited English proficiency slipped.

The rate reflects the number of students earning degrees but also, importantly, how well schools track down students who leave, because a school must show that a student has reenrolled in another school, whether across town or in another country.

To address persistent gaps in postsecondary educational attainment and our country's growing economic and workforce needs, federal and state policymakers, the philanthropic community, national education organizations and practitioners have put forth a number of goals and initiatives designed to increase college completion rates.