Sentence examples for measures of countries from inspiring English sources

Washington, however, has generally shied from addressing the protectionist measures of countries like China with countermeasures, as politicians once did against Japan.

For starters, he said, the US could combat the currency manipulation measures of countries like China, which make their products cheaper than American-manufactured goods.

While 75percentt of the world's unpaid care is undertaken by women, this work is often not counted in measures of countries' gross domestic product, according to a 2015 McKinsey report.

Bivariate and partial correlations between the two measures of country characteristics and the estimated effects of Parental Education with and without the outlier countries are presented in Table 2.

The SPI was launched in 2013 as a holistic measure of countries' social progress performance.

In the 2013 Networked Readiness Index of the World Economic Forum, a measure of countries' development of the Internet and other technological capabilities, Ecuador ranked 91st out of 144 countries, although it was ahead of many of its South American neighbors, including Argentina, Bolivia and Venezuela (another country increasingly mentioned as a possible destination for Mr. Snowden).

The World Bank database provides a consistent measure of country-level economic variables.

The Human Development Index (HDI) (UNDP 2014) is a general measure of country level human development.

In order to check the robustness of our result, we replicated the analysis controlling for a measure of country's school quality.

The Material deprivation rate was also chosen because of its direct relevance to the marginalized groups studied, and is considered as an ecological measure of country's burden of social marginalization [ 20- 22].

These proposals are bold, and would sweep away the worst farm-support measures of rich countries.