Apple did it more efficiently, with a much lower ratio of research and development spending vs.

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Finally, in keeping with our commitment to transparency, Development began the process of posting its technical debt ratio continuously for all our company to see, along with our financial results.

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It now has the highest debt-to-GDP ratio among the countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and that debt is a prime cause, as well as effect, of Japan's enduring stagnation.

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"I would be pleased with a two-to-one ratio, " said Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, professor of child development at Teachers College at Columbia University in New York.

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This year the United States is projected to run a budget deficit that amounts to 11.9% of GDP in 2010, the highest in the first world, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (although the Congressional Budget Office puts the deficit-to-GDP ratio at 8.9%).

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Almost two-thirds of South Koreans between 25 and 34 years old have college degrees, the highest ratio in the world, according to the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development.

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