Data from the World Bank's most recent and hugely comprehensive International Comparison Program study breaks global individual consumption into 11 buckets--from food and clothing to health care and recreation.

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While tiny by comparison to other programs, could this program be a stimulus for the shrinking venture capital industry?

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Their problems are much smaller by comparison, which suggests that any kind of program aimed at the broad middle is kind of missing the issue, and that we can design programs aimed just at this very small hardcore, are not going to have a much bigger effect.

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The program will put a sharp focus on the comparison of various types of fuel.

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Though Oklahoma had the next wealthiest program in the Big 12, their numbers pale in comparison.

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The Continent's spectacle has made the U.S. TARP program, begun after Lehman Brothers collapsed, look adult by comparison.

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In comparison, there are 10.5 million donors on the United States' National Marrow Donor Program.

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