The resource curse is entirely confined to countries below a threshold of governance.

So, the question is, are the bottom billion above or below that threshold?

About half of the Palestinian population, 18 million persons, lived below the poverty threshold.

The halving of the mortality rate has brought it below the official emergency threshold.

So, there's a threshold level above which you go up in the long term, and below which you go down.

The number of people living below the threshold of absolute poverty had increased, and environmental degradation was reaching alarming levels.

FATF suggests that the reporting threshold be set below 15,000 euros 15,000, acknowledging that the amount will vary from State to State.

The mortality rate decreased from 0.72 last year to 0.48 this year, well below the crisis threshold of 1 death per 10,000 persons per day.

One representative wondered whether it might be possible to introduce a threshold quantity for ozone depleting substances below which use for any purpose would be permitted.

This is 130 year old technology, and this is a problem, because over 80 percent of all home electrical fires start below the safety threshold of circuit breakers.

The preliminary findings suggest that the mortality rate in the three Darfur states has fallen below the international crisis threshold of 1 death per 10,000 persons per day.

This confirmed that all forms of asbestos can cause lung cancer, mesothelioma, and asbestosis and that no threshold level of exposure could be identified below which asbestos does not pose carcinogenic risks.

The year end commitments below a threshold of 5,000 for operations and 1,000 for administration were not centralized in Geneva and not validated as the financial year's commitments, but were charged to the following year.

The DVD, as you know, was introduced in the mid 1990s and it was quite expensive. But you can see that by 1998, it had fallen below 400 dollars, and 400 dollars was a psychological threshold.

The acute poverty indicator, which takes into consideration not only the gap between the poor and the poverty threshold but also the inequality among those living below the poverty line, was 8.9 per cent in 2004.

You hit the viability threshold.

Growth in real GDP appears to have averaged close to 4 in the second half of 2013, nearly double the 2.2 pace of the preceding four years. The unemployment rate has finally fallen below the 7 threshold.

And we've crossed our first threshold.

The Secretary General's report had shown that half the people currently living in poverty were of working age and that a majority of those who did work in developing countries lived below the two dollar a day poverty threshold.

The new rules also lower the financial disclosure threshold levels considerably the threshold for assets and income from non United Nations sources is lowered from 25,000 to 10,000 and the threshold for gifts from 10,000 to 250.

There could be non linearities, threshold effects.

And at each threshold, the going gets tougher.

So we've crossed a fourth threshold of complexity.

And of course, it reaches the viability threshold.

The Additional Protocols distinguish between international armed conflicts as defined in Article 1 of Protocol I, noninternational armed conflicts as defined in Article 1 of Protocol II, and situations of internal disturbances and tensions', which fall below the threshold of applicability of Protocol II.

Some formations are almost at the threshold of human visibility.

Karen Hulme, War Torn Environment Interpreting the Legal Threshold (2004).

The only new factor that could bring about a structural change in German politics is the rise of the new Alternative for Germany (AfD). Though its share of the popular vote fell just below the 5 threshold required to enter the Bundestag, the party performed surprisingly well.

The confinement center without threshold quality certification would promote the quality.

We refer in big history to these moments as threshold moments.

The engineering approach simply says, Let's go and periodically repair all of these various types of damage not necessarily repair them completely, but repair them quite a lot, so that we keep the level of damage down below the threshold that must exist, that causes it to be pathogenic.

But this solution was detrimental to financial stability in the rest of Europe, because it signaled that the 100,000 threshold below which deposits are guaranteed was not sacrosanct. Legally, of course, this guarantee is only worth the solvency of the guarantor in this case the near bankrupt Cypriot state.

And I believe we count as a threshold in this great story.

They could argue that action is not necessary in a specific case, but they would have to do so publicly, thus becoming accountable for their inaction. In order to eradicate moral hazard, the system must have a resolution procedure to close banks when their capital falls below a minimum threshold.

Then came he to the gate which looks toward the east, and went up its steps and he measured the threshold of the gate, one reed broad and the other threshold, one reed broad.

Then came he to the gate which looks toward the east, and went up its steps and he measured the threshold of the gate, one reed broad and the other threshold, one reed broad.

Walking upright, we are told, is the threshold of what made us human.

Conventional wisdom held that everything was safe up to a point, a threshold.

The objective is a nationwide structure of recognisable and low threshold reporting centres.

No scientist could predict that in 2007, suddenly, what could be crossing a threshold.

Nevertheless, we are now on the threshold of the functioning of the new structure.

In that report, the claims were reported as having met the threshold eligibility requirement.

Some delegations were opposed to the threshold of significant harm in draft principle 1.

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The decision in Doha reaffirms that any new agreement must bolster efforts to meet the UN target of limiting global warming to two degrees centigrade. Indeed, it will spur a review of countries emissions targets, aimed at closing the gap between current pledges and the reductions needed to remain below the two degree threshold.