Failure to adapt amounts to regression.

Immobility means regression in a dynamic and globalized world.

The Gini coefficient has already passed the dangerous line of 0.4.

And not having to know history's next mad rage or regression, it might be a relief.

It is clear that all Nicosia wants by this regression is to waste time , the commentary further said.

Failure to do so may result in greater impoverishment of the poorest and regression for those countries which have seen progress.

This general quantity measurement approach can be based on either a cross commodity or a cross country regression model of trade.

The age structure of the population in the year 1991 was of a border static regression type, with a narrow peaked pyramid.

In light of these realities, we suggest the use of additional indicators (i) poverty (measured by levels of consumption) and (ii) inequality (Gini coefficient).

Hesitance or lack of active support may quickly become a major issue of credibility, risking a regression in international cooperation that would be truly detrimental.

The year 2002 had witnessed the third consecutive economic regression, leading to a gross domestic product (GDP) 15.2 per cent smaller than that of 1999.

Kuwait's risk assessment uses low , central , and high values for four input variables (background mortality, population, exposure concentration and concentration response coefficient) to characterize uncertainty.

Under the simple Swiss formula approach, a coefficient would be selected that would in effect set a maximum rate across countries by compressing high rates.

But often it was like taking two steps forward and one step back, and often it was worse one step forward, two back a net regression.

Standing as a candidate for the European elections is the best way to denounce the regression in democratic values and repression we have seen from the Spanish government, he said.

Despite the agreements reached by States and peoples on steps to be taken to eliminate racism and discrimination, successes thus far had been few, and in some cases there had been regression.

As the Japanese economist Ryuichiro Tachi has pointed out, Japan also benefited from a high savings rate and a low capital coefficient (the ratio of capital to output) of less than 1. Though a precise comparison is difficult, there is no doubt that China s capital coefficient is much higher, implying a larger gap between the growth rate of capital intensity (the total amount of capital needed per dollar of revenue) and that of labor productivity.

The lowest labour price is determined at Republika Srpska level, i.e., at the level of branches and activities, and is multiplied by a coefficient of complexity for the work for every payment group.

The first one is the Engels coefficient, which explains that the cost of daily necessities has dropped its percentage all through the past decade, in terms of family income, to about 37 some percent.

One negative consequence is the persistent deepening of income inequality. The Gini coefficient of per capita income has surpassed 50 (with 100 representing maximal inequality), putting China in the upper quartile of inequality worldwide.

Under the Swiss type approaches, the coefficient would be based on each country's current national average, possibly multiplied by another factor that could be linked either to flexibilities or to credit for past unilateral reforms.

In more homogenous societies, such as Libya, social solidarity tends to follow tribal and partisan lines. In Tunisia, too, there has been a similar regression to mechanistic types of solidarity organized around tribal, regional, and religious identities.

They began to study religion alone, insisting that only those who study religion particularly Islamic jurisprudence gain merit in the afterlife. The result was intellectual regression at the very moment that Europe began embracing scientific and mathematical knowledge.

The initial work showed that acoustic waves with frequencies of oscillation greater than a critical value predicted from the physical conditions in the solar atmosphere are not significantly reflected by the atmosphere, with less than 2 percent reflection coefficient.

(i) To endeavor to develop advanced mine detection technology and equipment (such as non metallic mine detectors and detectors adopting the working principle of infrared thermovision or soil dielectric coefficient), so to improve the efficiency of detecting MOTAPM through various ways and means.

The United Nations must either change to lead and to take up the challenges of our time, or it will hide behind a superficial change in order to survive and will become an accomplice in the regression of our peoples and the perpetuation of backwardness.

If we use what is called the Gini coefficient to measure this income gap, with 0 indicating perfect equality of income distribution and 1 meaning perfect inequality, the number for China is 0.454 in 2002. This is an internationally recognized level of absolute disparity.

Moreover, it has become an article of faith that any move toward a more open or pluralist approach to economics portends regression to pre scientific modes of thought, just as the results of the European Parliament election threaten to revive a more primitive mode of politics.

In cases when this assessment was done, some Parties used linear regression tools, and others reported the use of methodologies that reflected source categories of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 1995 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (hereinafter referred to as the IPCC Guidelines).

Regarding the treatment of non reciprocal preferences, the Group of African States proposed the incorporation of a correction coefficient in the formula, while the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States has called for the use of a vulnerability index to identify those products eligible for special treatment.

We showed a few months ago we published the first study showing you can actually stop or reverse the progression of prostate cancer by making changes in diet and lifestyle, and 70 percent regression in the tumor growth, or inhibition of the tumor growth, compared to only nine percent in the control group.

By delaying structural reforms, they have allowed their economies to accumulate risks and imbalances that have eroded their long term health. In particular, the BRICS suffer from considerable income inequality, with their average Gini coefficient (where zero signifies absolute equality and one is absolute inequality) ranging from 0.37 to 0.50 in 2010 2013.

Colombia remains a highly unequal society, with the Gini coefficient, a common measure of inequality, hovering around 0.5 in the same range as Brazil and Chile. The problem has many causes, one of which is a poorly functioning labor market that forces many Colombians to accept informal work or no work at all.

We will continue to increase our efforts to promote the development of the least developed countries, but we will also continue to recall that we cannot forget the middle income countries in particular countries with middle low incomes which are also facing serious development problems and, in many cases, the risk of political, social and economic regression.

Consider the Gini coefficient, the most common measure of inequality, which runs from a value of zero for perfect equality to 100 for perfect inequality (one person receives all the income). The average Gini score (not weighted by population) in countries for which there are data declined slightly in the 2000 2010 period, from 39 to 38.

The most reliable data suggest that he was successful at reducing inequality during his rule, Venezuela s Gini coefficient, a 100 point scale measuring income inequality, fell from 50 to 39, the biggest decline in Latin America. Poverty was cut in half from 50 to around 25 of the population, while extreme poverty fell by two thirds.

China s income distribution has become highly skewed at 0.438, the Gini coefficient, which measures income inequality, puts the country closer to the United States than to northern Europe s egalitarian societies (with the exception of the United Kingdom). And the unjust allocation of resources, which has enriched so many politically well connected individuals and families, has become more difficult to bear.

Progress has been steady but slow while there has been no regression the Human Rights Committee, in its general comment No. 26, adopted in 1997, emphasized the continuity of obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights the pace of progress has not been significantly quicker, and the goals of the World Conference on Human Rights, like the Millennium Development Goals, remain unmet.

That has meant greater regional balance as well The coastal provinces, which produce more than 85 of the country s exports, are experiencing the most pronounced slowdown, while inland provinces have maintained relatively high growth rates. As a result, China s Gini coefficient (a 100 point index of inequality, in which zero signifies absolute equality and one absolute inequality) fell to 0.50 in 2012, from 0.52 in 2010.

Earlier work by Lustig and her coauthors found that a declining wage premium that is, a drop in the wage gap between workers with high and low education explained part of the decline in the Gini coefficient in Latin American countries. It is not easy to disentangle the role of supply and demand factors in the reduction of the wage premium, but both seem to have played a role.

All of these challenges have led former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers and his Harvard colleague Lant Pritchett to argue that China s growth could slow to 2 4 over the next two decades, as the country succumbs to the historically prevalent growth pattern implied by regression to the mean. But, given that China s growth pattern has, so far, been exceptional, the notion that it will suddenly start following a common trajectory seems unlikely.

The types of securities that can be lent to the customer by the securities firm and can be bought with the funds lent to the customer by the securities firm, the types and coefficient of the securities that can be used as deposit, the time limit for securities lending and borrowing, the minimum guarantee maintenance ratio and the time limit for making up the difference shall be determined by the stock exchange.

America s 20 wealthiest people now own more wealth than the bottom half of the entire population The wealth gap between America s high income group and everyone else has never been more extreme rich households account for more than one in five of the entire US population. Strikingly, one hour north of Wall Street, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the Gini coefficient a standard measurement of income distribution and inequality is worse than in Zimbabwe.