While the global economic crisis is causing companies worldwide to tear up business plans and scale back growth, in the Middle East the relative declines in the media sector have been less severe and certainly the potential for growth is still very apparent.
We investigate the factors that enabled such emerging innovator economies to achieve successful catch-up while some historically more innovative countries experienced relative declines in innovative productivity.
We find relative declines in SSI participation of 0.17 percentage points on average after the introduction of Medicaid coverage for childless adults, a 7% relative decrease.
At the broadest taxonomic level, in both experiments P enrichment produced relative declines in two TRFs of Actinomycetes (Table 1, Figs. 5a, 5b, 6a).
Rates of perinatal mortality in Nova Scotia declined by about 50%, with larger relative declines in early neonatal death rates (Table 3).
13 Using over four decades of mortality data of USA, studies found absolute and relative declines in premature mortality across socio-economic and racial/ethnic groups during 1966 1980 and widening relative health inequalities during 1980 2002.
After exclusion of women who reported prior vascular disease, there were smaller relative declines in vascular mortality in most subgroups, but similar patterns by lifestyle risk factors (see Figure 2 in Supplementary Material).
