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In developed countries, we spend two or three times less on food as a percentage of our income as do people in developing countries.
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The primary observation here is that the U.S. government is already spending as much on healthcare, as a percentage of GDP, as the average for OECD countries.
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More important still, more than half of Muslims identify themselves as Americans first, a far higher percentage than in the various countries of Western Europe.
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Interviews and survey data from various East Asian countries show that part of the problem is extremely high housing costs roughly twice or more as a percentage of income as in the United States, according to demographer Wendell Cox and often pitiably small space.
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On average, total public debt in the 10 countries highlighted by the researchers was 31.8 percentage points higher, as a share of GDP, in 2010 than governments had forecast back in 2007.
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Watch countries exposed to runaway food price inflation such as those with a low GDP per capita and a very high percentage of food relative to total household consumption.
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He identifies Asia and Europe as the source of a large percentage of the world's junk e-mail, as well as other countries that are well insulated from American prosecution and lack strong cybercrime laws.
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