Research firm Point Topic estimates that around 2m homes are currently unable to get speeds of 2Mbps.
Other estimates point to a modest drop in poverty in recent years.
The estimates point to the need for an increased commitment to education on the part of national governments as well as a substantial increase in aid commitments to basic education.
In South Korea, lifting the proportion of a firm's managers who are female by ten percentage points raises its return on assets by one percentage point, Mr Siegel estimates.
The findings provide a reference point for conservation efforts and estimates of extinction rates, the researchers say.
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Take just one data point -- the independent Congressional Budget Office estimates that leaving the sequester in place will reduce GDP growth by 0.6% this year, and cost 750, 000 jobs.
Roberto Newell, director general of the Mexican Institute of Competitiveness, estimates this could add an additional percentage point of annual economic growth.
Mr. Terry estimates about 1 in 3 students cheat at some point during elementary school.
My first set of results was completely unimpressive, to the point of making one wonder why we even bother to track estimates and revisions at all.
Wall Street is betting that the cuts, which the Congressional Budget Office estimates will take 0.6 of a percentage point of economic growth this year and cost 750, 000 jobs, won't be enough to derail the recovery.
Over the long run, sharp traders getting out in front of these forced portfolio changes have poached at least 0.38 percentage point of annual return away from Russell 2000 index funds, estimates a new study in the Journal of Empirical Finance.
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The estimates are wrong, but that is largely beside the point.
That was just based on the estimates made by both conservative and liberal economists, because at that point not all the data had trickled in.
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The break-even point for most child care centers is around 65% to 70%, estimates Mark L. Rosenberg, treasurer of the National Child Care Association--but that's assuming your center is large enough to generate economies of scale.
And the Treasury estimates that the economic growth rate has been boosted by a quarter-point because of immigration.
Mr. Bernanke cited Congressional Budget Office estimates that the cuts would reduce economic growth by 0.6 percentage point this year, which would cost the economy 750, 000 jobs this year.
The problem from the ISPs point of view is that a small minority--about 3% by most estimates--of users "abuse" the unlimited policies by staying online practically all of the time.
Estimates of the numbers and nationalities may vary but does that alter the basic point?
The report estimates that roughly 3m American adults have had a pathological gambling problem at some point in their lives, meaning that they have lied, stolen, gone broke, neglected jobs or family, or even committed suicide because of an uncontrollable desire to gamble.
Mr. Massoni estimates they have about 8, 000 pieces that can be used as a starting point for brainstorming future work.
Proponents point to the particulates released by coal-burning power plants, which, according to some estimates, cause 20, 000 premature deaths annually in the U.S. alone.
The spending intentions, which are also 7 percent higher than a year ago, point to an increase of about 3 percent or 4 percent in holiday retail sales, Gallup estimates.
Democrat-leaning and bailout recipient Goldman Sachs estimates that an expiration of the tax cut could knock two-thirds of a percentage point off growth in early 2012.
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Morningstar pharmaceutical-industry analyst Damien Conover estimates that Pfizer can expect generic competition to undercut gains from new drugs, to the point that sales will grow by just 1% a year on average going forward.
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