The poll asks academics to nominate no more than 15 of the best institutions in their narrow field of expertise, based on their experience and knowledge, making it a rigorous global measure of academic prestige.
The other aspect of the US position that has drawn cries of "hypocrite" from the environmental community is that it asks the EU to stand down its ETS plan and instead develop a truly global measure to tackle aviation emissions.
The MSCI Emerging Markets (EM) Index is designed to measure global emerging market equity performance.
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Second, how best to measure global output depends on the purpose of the measurement.
With this measure global inequality is clearly falling in recent decades.
This document is part of a global assessment project to measure progress towards the Millennium Development Goals.
Gary Shilling, the bear's bear, once told me to look at copper prices as a measure of global industrial activity.
Fiskars has gained a tiny measure of global fame as the home of some of the most famous scissors designers in the world.
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The biggest reason for the discrepancy, though, is the different way the two companies measure numbers on global traffic, and how they crunch the numbers.
Such a fixed yardstick by which to measure commerce would promote global production, trade and growth.
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This cream of the regional crop is not a ranking by size, like our annual Global 2000, or necessarily a measure of brand wattage.
Bureaucrats, joined by splinter environmentalists in large measure inspired by the global warming issue, are part of a vocal contingent pushing nukes as a major alternative to hydrocarbons.
However, as Milanovic himself points out, as and when India is growing strongly even this measure is showing falls in global inequality.
But is there any objective measure by which the reach of a global e-protest movement can be assessed?
Each side of the debate on global warming would do well to consider how they measure up to this standard.
The last attempt to revoke the measure fizzled in 2008, when the global financial crisis threatened to sap Canada's finances.
If you measure inequality of wealth rather than income, the global pecking order changes.
Collenette said the measure would give those affected time to reassess the global insurance market situation and develop more long-term solutions.
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So while the typical effective duration -- a measure of sensitivity to interest rates -- for global bond mutual funds run by peers is five or six years, his is less than two years.
In recent years, bioplastics composed from plant resources gathered greater attention as an effective measure to reduce the depletion of petroleum resources and alleviate global warming.
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Each company earned a "Global RepTrak Pulse" score of zero to 100, representing an average measure of people's feelings for it.
For example, researchers in Arizona are using real-time kinematic global positioning systems, an ultra-precise version of GPS that can measure positions with sub-inch accuracy levels, to control weeds in cotton fields with steel cultivators.
Released Thursday, the latest data show the index just shy of the all-time high mark hit back in February, 26% above its measure a year ago. (Read On The Verge Of A Global Food Crisis).
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Thanks to creative destruction, productivity has taken off in ways hard to measure but clear to anyone who surfs the Web for news or browses the global markets for merchandise from places that two generations ago were barely on the map.
Even allowing for these blemishes, the global reception for the London Games suggests that the positive has outweighed the negative by a large measure.
But by the Berkeley team's analysis, the global temperature correlates more closely with the state of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) index - a measure of sea surface temperature in the north Atlantic.
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