Countries are ordered by decreasing percentage of poverty reduction achieved.
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Some of these changes involved the reduction of a small percentage of marketing positions, to better align our resources with our business needs and clarify roles across the marketing function.
So deficit reduction of one percentage point could knock up to 1.7 percentage points off growth.
Trulia even tracks local price reduction trends like percentage of properties with price cuts, average discounts and average number of days before a cut.
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The study suggests that each reduction of one percentage point in the marginal tax rate could increase the number of new businesses by as much as 2%.
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Foreign multinationals from high-tax countries that open subsidiaries in the U.S. lower their effective tax rate by maybe 0.5 percentage points, with most of that reduction going to Japanese multinationals simply because they are taxed even more back in Tokyo, the study found.
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Although new efforts are underway in Western capitals to make bonds more readily rescheduable -- by such methods as a dramatic reduction in the percentage of bond holders who must agree to a change in the maturity structure -- it may be too late for Russia.
The percentage reduction each year in the percentage of babes and innocents dying as a result of extreme poverty.
But during the December 23 pro forma session, the Senate overrode the prior unanimous consent agreement by unanimous consent to allow the Senate to pass a temporary extension of the temporary 2 percentage point payroll tax reduction.
We chose the amount of long-term deficit reduction to ensure that our debt and deficits were falling as a percentage of our economy -- an important metric for ensuring confidence in whether the United States is still the best place to make long-term investments.
Our findings indicate that a 10% increase in government expenditures as a percent of GDP results in approximately a 1 percentage point reduction in GDP growth.
This implies that the long-term rate of poverty reduction slightly over one percentage point a year continued unabated in 2008-10, despite the dual crisis.
Following two days of sell-offs in stock markets across the globe--and a week ahead of its Federal Open Market Committee meeting (when the rate cut was expected)-- the Fed slashed short-term interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point, its single most dramatic rate reduction since 1984.
In the light of that outlook, the Committee judged at its October meeting that an immediate reduction in Bank Rate of 0.5 percentage points to 4.5% was necessary to meet the 2% target for CPI inflation in the medium term.
Historically, a reduction in top tax rates has led to a greater percentage of income tax revenue paid by the higher earners.
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The survey's findings "probably guarantee" a rate cut next month, he said, with attention now focusing on whether the reduction would be of one quarter or one half of a percentage point.
Thirteen of the 17 countries with enough observations to compute annual effective tax rates in both 2009 and 1999 experienced a reduction in their tax rate with a median decline of 5 percentage points.
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The greatest threat to the integrity of the Social Security system was removed by allowing the temporary, 2-percentage-point reduction in the Social Security Payroll tax to lapse.
From 2003 to 2007, the primary balance deficit was reduced from JPY 28 trillion to JPY 6 trillion, a reduction of JPY 22 trillion, equivalent to increasing the consumption tax by 9 percentage points.
"By September next year, we will become the first nation using 100%-renewable energy, and number one in percentage greenhouse gas reduction in the Pacific and elsewhere, " Foua Toloa told a meeting on the fringes of the UN climate conference.
Finally, the integrity of the Social Security system and its financial strength should be protected by allowing the temporary 2 percentage-point reduction in the Social Security payroll tax to lapse.
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