Rukha bribes these parents to send their kids to school, by promising them an equivalent income if they take their children off the street.
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If China's real income grows by 8% a year and its income distribution remains unchanged, by 2020 the top 100m households will have an average income equivalent to the current average in western Europe.
So the extra income is only equivalent to an increase of about 5 to 6%.
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The equivalent rate among higher-income children has stayed flat--and among adults of all incomes it has increased.
Insurance agents often recommend coverage that will replace the equivalent of 15 times your annual income.
Income like this is equivalent to an annuity meaning that we can calculate the capital value of such a sum.
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The labour share of income is not equal or equivalent to wages and salaries.
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The move towards an equivalent of America's earned-income tax credit (a key part of the fairness programme, albeit borrowed from the wrong side) does make sense.
In the last few years China has had increases in standards of living and income that are pretty much equivalent to what took 500 years in the West.
She struggled to meet a monthly bill that was equivalent to almost half of her cash income, but could not keep up payments and is now trying to go bankrupt.
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Since that would benefit only the half of French workers who have to pay income-tax, his equivalent bonbon for about 9m low-paid was to lower the rate at which they would have to pay two charges levied on all workers to help pay for health and unemployment insurance.
In Britain home-equity withdrawals added the equivalent of 3% of post-tax income to households in the fourth quarter of 2007 but subtracted 3% a year later.
That will likely increase prices again, causing Brazilians and industry watchdogs to wonder when an entry level vehicle there will no longer cost the equivalent of a small house in a low income state like Pernambuco.
With household debts equivalent to a high 160% of disposable income, and with shoppers' spending power being reduced by inflationary pressures greater than we've seen for 20 years, consumers are cutting back on all but essential purchases.
According to the IMF's latest Fiscal Monitor, when you add their 6% of GDP deficit to the public debt that needs to be rolled over this year, France will need to raise an amount equivalent to more than 20% of their national income from the financial markets in 2011.
Most dramatic has been Britain: house prices have risen by more than 25% over the past year, and Goldman Sachs estimates that mortgage equity withdrawal was equivalent to 8.5% of personal disposable income in the fourth quarter, more than at the peak of Britain's housing bubble in the late 1980s.
When money loses value, it's the equivalent of governments raising the rate at which we pay income taxes.
For instance, in France and Germany, household shareholdings are equivalent to less than 20% of their annual disposable income, compared with 100% in America and 65% in Britain.
Someone who earns an amount equivalent to the cost of existence, will be taxed income tax and sales tax well into their Existence Income.
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His stockpile of old titles is the equivalent of a portfolio of old TV series reruns, guaranteed to generate income for years.
He may have cut 1p off the basic rate of Income Tax, but overall Labour have increased taxes by the equivalent of 8p in the Pound.
Final salary schemes, which guarantee a pension equivalent to a fixed proportion of workers' final wages, provide a more generous retirement income than defined contribution schemes, which are tied to stock market performance.
Hong Kong has no general income tax, only a salaries tax, a corporate-profits tax and its equivalent of a property tax.
In the UK the TUC (think AFL-CIO equivalent) did the calculation for how much all of the things we do change in the income statistics.
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Lord Lucas said that interns should include those "who cannot afford to go without income" and said there should be no sanctions for employers who make up the equivalent of Jobseeker's Allowance payments to interns.
There are other taxes paid on incomes (national insurance, our equivalent of social security, Medicaid and so on) making that 40% or so as an income tax rate alone the peak of the curve.
But for the average professional with a stable income, saving six to nine months of your salary in a low yielding account is the equivalent of burying gold in the back yard.
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Nowadays, the income of the average Portuguese, Spaniard or Greek is three to five times that of his Turkish equivalent (see chart 1).
Economists reckoned the uplift in happiness at that time was equivalent to 60% of the increase in wellbeing people tend to experience when they cross the line of median income, from the third income quartile into the second one.
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