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By reducing the need for excessive household saving, hukou reform would increase consumption as a percentage of gross domestic product by 0.6 percentage point over five years, recent research from the International Monetary Fund argued.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
Asset allocations to stocks among the rich rose three percentage points to 25% of investment portfolios, Capgemini reported.
From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026
Though time-consuming, it can detect 95% of cancers and a similar percentage of high-risk polyps.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026
Since then, its stock has outperfomed the S&P 500 by about 14 percentage points.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026
Thus, we might say that a 95 percent confidence interval for the percentage of voters favoring candidate X is 45 percent plus or minus 6 percent.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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