Sentences with phrase «than the country spends»

The evangelists of a services economy don't talk much about the fact that Canada spends considerably more on other countries» services than those countries spend on ours.

Or about $ 10 billion a year less than the country spends on universities alone.

Not exact matches

Before Yang designed the collection, she spent two years traveling around the country meeting with employees, observing them at work, getting feedback from union groups and reading through responses to more than 5,000 employee surveys.

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«Private sector companies and industries in Canada spend less on R&D than in competitor countries,» he notes.

Businesspeople from the U.S. spend more on work - related travel than corporate travelers from any other country in the world, but Chinese business - travel spending is expected to overtake the U.S. in the near future, according to a new report from the Global Business Travel Association.

In some parts of the country (hi, New York and the rest of the Northeast), the percentage spent on housing can be even higher than the 37 % average.

His own country, he reported, has more than doubled its spending over two years to 1.8 percent of national output, and will hit the target next.

His country had been spending far more than it collected in taxes for as long as he had lived, and paying for the shortfall by printing money or borrowing from international investors.

Severe weather has slammed parts of the country, forcing some travelers to spend more holiday time in airports than planned.

The Fourth of July is the country's top beer - drinking holiday with more than $ 1 billion spent on cold brews last year alone — more than the cost of burgers and hot dogs combined.

The US spends more on space exploration than any other country in the world.A big chunk of this investment goes to NASA, the country's leading agency for space exploration.

The Asian country spent $ 16.48 billion on American - made civilian aircrafts, engines and aviation parts in 2015, up more than 180 percent from five years earlier.

(It also doesn't hurt that Filipinos spend more time on social media than any other country, with the average user spending almost 4 hours on social every day.)

Switzerland is also similar to many countries in that digital media has become marketers» focus, as marketing experts realize that consumers are now spending more time online than reading magazines or watching TV.

Sheikh says he tried mightily as head of StatsCan to shift limited resources away from collecting data about the country's shrinking manufacturing sector — more than 300,000 jobs have been shed in Ontario and Quebec over the past decade — so the agency could spend more on tracking the boom in services and trade.

And while research firm ComScore reports Canadians spend more time online than any other nation, Zillidy is the country's first startup in the pawning space.

By 1927 U.S. women were shelling out more on beauty products than the entire country was spending on electric power.

«We spend more than virtually any other country on public investments and job training and skills development, and yet we have unacceptably high levels of unemployment amongst young Canadians, aboriginal Canadians, new immigrants, and persons with disabilities,» he said.

This means that every single person on this planet, from a newborn to the pre baby boomer generation, from the most advanced countries to the worst places on earth, from the top 1 % earners to homeless people have spent more than $ 3 on Apple products (and services) last year.

Michael Furdyk: He founded TakingITGlobal at 17, and now Furdyk spends his time growing his business in more than 200 countries.

The Nielsen Global Survey of Consumer Confidence and Spending Intentions was conducted between August 10 and September 4, and polled more than 30,000 online consumers in 60 countries worldwide.

Such a result is puzzling, given the country spends a greater proportion of its GDP on education than the OECD average.

Notably, families in the Northeast spend about 70 % more on college than those in the West, Midwest, and South, which might explain why the average debt per graduate is higher in that part of the country.

While more than 100 countries take a day off for May Day, U.S. President Donald Trump will spend Tuesday deciding whether to extend a largely U.S. - China trade standoff into a more global dispute.

The Nordic countries had got into the habit of spending more on welfare than they could afford and of relying more on a handful of giant companies than was wise.

But more than anyone, Mr. Schäuble has come to embody the consensus that has helped shape European economic policy for years: that the path to sustained economic recovery for financially troubled countries is to slash spending, raise taxes when necessary and win back the trust of bond markets and other investors by displaying commitment to fiscal prudence — even if that process imposes deep economic pain as it plays out.

Americans spend 42 hours on average sitting in congestion every year, costing each driver roughly $ 1,400, and last week the American Roads & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) reported that more than 54,000 of the country's 612,677 bridges are rated «structurally deficient.»

I've mentioned before how Chinese tourists spend more than any other country's.

American officials are trying to recoup more than $ 1 billion that they say was taken from 1MDB, a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund, and spent by family and friends of the country's prime minister, Najib Razak, pictured.

The demographics are also changing: more than 400 million millennials have emerged as a driving force in consumer spending, while the country's aging population — expected to double over the next two decades — will generate new product and services demands.

The World Health Organization praises the country for its healthcare system and has ranked it higher than that of the U.S., despite Costa Rica spending 87 % less on healthcare per capita.

Running a trade surplus means that a country sells more to foreigners than it buys from them, and there seems to be an implicit belief that exports are what a hard working country produces, and imports are the equivalent of its consumption, so that a trade surplus means that the country earns more than it spends, and the larger the surplus, the more likely the ants in that country are especially productive, thrifty, morally upright, and perhaps fond of sensible clothing.

Financial writer Alex Green, the Oxford Club's chief strategist, told me during my recent interview with him that he thought out - of - control spending posed a greater threat to our country than even North Korea.

That is, world trade must balance, so when some countries produce more than they consume, or save more than they invest, other countries must do the opposite — consume more than they produce and spend more than they save.

But when other countries save more than they spend, and export those savings our way (capital inflows), that too drives our trade deficit.

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Over the last decade, the government R&D spend has been roughly equal to 4 % of GDP (Source: World Bank)-- significantly greater than other countries.

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The country's fiscal spending, according to the Congressional Budget Office, may increase the national debt as a percent of GDP to a higher level than Italy in five years.

Greeks» growing support for the far left and far right means governing the restless country and implementing the massive extra spending cuts that the European Union wants to see will be harder than ever.

Insurance Australia Group is resetting its China growth strategy and potentially spending more than $ 100 million on another acquisition as it seeks a national presence in the world's most populous country.

Defense: China's defense industry spending is likely to increase more rapidly than overall GDP, as the country seeks to modernize its infrastructure.

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A new Angus Reid Institute study finds that, while Canadians say they would like to do more for global development, just over one - quarter of them (28 %) believe their country should spend more than it currently does.

Another way of thinking about this is to remember that a surplus of savings in a given country means that the country is producing more goods and services than it absorbs in domestic spending.

I'd rather have our taxes spent on improving people's lives than destroying them (the massively over-bloated defense budget in this country).

Pastor Saeed, the Iranian - American Christian pastor who spent more than three years in Iranian prison for holding underground religious meetings in the country, took to Facebook to show a letter he recently received from President Obama.

All of his adulthood was spent inside the perimeters of his tiny country, which was much smaller than the province of Ontario.