MoPub believes the trail-off for Android devices was due to their poor conversion rate.
In theory, the resulting efficiencies should mean that Germany could raise its poor average rate of return on invested capital.
Should the Indian Premier League team prevail, Somerset's poor net run-rate could well ruin their chances.
Since SCHIP was signed into law, the uninsured rate among poor children has dropped to 16.9% in 2005 from 22.5% in 1996, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Zimbabwe remains desperately poor, with an unemployment rate close to 90%.
Just as a poor credit risk has to pay banks a higher interest rate on loans, so a company or government that is a poor credit risk has to pay a higher yield on its bonds in order to entice investors to buy them.
Do the poor care about the overall growth rate of the Angolan economy?
The sub-prime lending market - worth billions of pounds - involves lending to people with poor credit records at an interest rate premium.
Even poor countries had a better compliance rate, suggesting the problem in the rich world is not cost but unwillingness to follow the rules (see chart).
Whereas low-income people would have a great ROI but do not have the capital, high-income people are faced with a poor ROI because of their tax rate.
It reported that they were more likely to be poor and that their infant mortality rate was half as high again as that of the rest of the population.
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The data companies maintain that gathering the prescription data is good for public health--for instance, it might show that in a poor area with a high asthma rate too few inhalers have been prescribed.
However, much of this benefit would be lost over time if government has to borrow money in order to finance those rate cuts or makes poor choices in its search for offsetting tax hikes or spending cuts.
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Poor nutrition during pregnancy almost triples the rate of antisocial personality disorder in adulthood.
Poor people marry at a much lower rate than those who are better off.
They implicitly assume that changes in the taxable income of rich and poor are influenced only by tax-rate changes.
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Two-fifths of single mothers are poor, which triples the overall poverty rate.
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These hold out the best hope, together with responsible macroeconomic management, of boosting Britain's growth rate and helping rich and poor alike.
Salinas says, unapologetically, that his bank charges customers--the poorest inhabitants of a poor nation--an average interest rate of 50% annually, or 1% per week.
But even I knew that, despite all of the admirable progress that was made under Saakashvili, the country remained extremely poor and unequal and that its unemployment rate was shockingly high.
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There are now a record number of poor people in America, and the poverty rate has jumped to 15.1 percent.
Today, the rate that OECD countries spend per poor person in their own country, compared to other poor countries, stands at 30, 000-to-1.
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At the same time, the disparity between the city's rich and poor continued to grow, and the poverty rate reached its highest point in more than a decade during Mr. Bloomberg's third term, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
The federal government can tell American households that the inflation rate is under 2%, but the poor consumer knows better.
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However, the success rate of those on the list has so far been poor.
On the other hand, the mortality rate for children is falling, and the proportion of poor children who receive the proper series of vaccines has grown.
Today, even though Native Americans are still the poorest of the poor, a recent study shows that we have increased our population rate and our per-capita income more than any other ethnic group in the country during the past decade.
Service Corp. blamed its poor earnings in part on a lower-than-expected death rate, for example (see box), although Stewart executives note that it's the number of deaths, not the rate, that drives funeral sales-and deaths in the U.S. were up 1% last year.
The challenge is to raise that rate again, but government efforts to stimulate entrepreneurship have a poor track record.
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