Emerging-market banks are of the old school, with branches, profits, lowish pay and high capital.
It has lowish public debt but some fear it cannot afford to bail out its crippled savings banks.
This makes it virtually impossible for those on lowish incomes to plan ahead.
Short-term rates are just 0.5% and ten-year government bonds yield a lowish 4%.
And lowish credit-default-swap spreads on banks such as Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse partly reflect the assurance of government help if needed.
Ballet dancers tend not to have degrees either, which coupled with lowish entry-level pay means they too will hit problems with immigration.
American footballers put up with lowish pay because they lack other options.
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It is worth roughly the same as the lowish American federal minimum wage, and less than those of Belgium, France and the Netherlands.
Although its pilots and engineers are paid at globally competitive rates, most cabin crew and ancillary staff are recruited on lowish wages from the subcontinent and South-East Asia.
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Since gas-fired generation is about the most scalable, efficient, flexible, clean and (on a large scale) lowish-carbon form of electricity available, it is going to prove economically and politically attractive.
The Mexican baby boom of the 1950s coincided with lowish emigration, whereas the exodus to the United States kicked off in the 1980s, just as Mexico's birth rate was plummeting.
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