They promised to do their part to cut the growth rate in health spending by one and a half percentage points a year.

VOA: special.2009.05.15

The discount rate was a policy variable set by the Fed and it was typically fifty basis points below the Federal Funds Rate.

贴现率是一个联邦可改变的政策,并且它比联邦资金利率通常,低五十个基本点。

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The primary discount rate is typically a hundred basis points above the Funds Rate.

一级贴现率通常,在联邦资金利率一百个基本点之上。

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The results also show that 17% of families in the city were living below the poverty level, 7 points higher than the national rate.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

And those things taken together have pushed the growth rate by couple of percentage points beyond what India's trade growth rate has been in the last 25 years.

所有因素综合起来,大大促进了印度经济的发展,使印度的贸易增长额,较过去的25年,有了显著增长。

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For individuals, the poverty rate was 21%, almost 8 points higher than the rate nationally.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

The discount rate is now only 2.5% twenty-five basis points higher; it's at 2.5%.

贴现率现在只高了,二十五个基本点；是。

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That was five percentage points higher than the national rate.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

They were worried that if the discount rate is fifty basis points below the Federal Funds Rate then it's going to hit zero and that would be embarrassing; so they moved it.

他们担忧的是,如果贴现率比,联邦资金利率低五十个基本点,那么它将会接近零点,并且那将会很尴尬；所以他们改变了它。

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While that rate is far from ideal, Lo points out that the lower rate will still be a significant improvement for Cambodian families.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10