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In the 1980s Rajiv Gandhi, then the Prime Minister of India, had said that for every rupee targeted towards welfare and poverty alleviation only a fraction, 15 paise, reached the intended beneficiary. [1] [2] This observation by the Prime Minister has been called a guess, an estimate, not based on empirical data. [3]
Map of the world showing national-level sales tax / VAT rates as of October 2019. Additional local taxes may apply. [citation needed]A comparison of tax rates by countries is difficult and somewhat subjective, as tax laws in most countries are extremely complex and the tax burden falls differently on different groups in each country and sub-national unit.
The ten percent of the brain myth or 90% of the brain myth states that humans generally use only one-tenth (or some other small fraction) of their brains. It has been misattributed to many famous scientists and historical figures, notably Albert Einstein. [ 1] By extrapolation, it is suggested that a person may 'harness' or 'unlock' this unused ...
Rotten Tomatoes logo. On the film review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, films that every surveyed critic[1]considered bad have a 0% rating. [2][3][4]As of 2023, only 40 films with more than 20 reviews have received this rating. The Ringer, analyzing films' Rotten Tomatoes scores compared to change in profit margin, estimated that a film ...
A series of protests began in France on 19 January 2023 with a demonstration of over one million people nationwide, organised by opponents of the pension reform bill proposed by the Borne government to increase the retirement age from 62 to 64. The strikes led to widespread disruption, including garbage piling up in the streets and public ...
In statistics, the 68–95–99.7 rule, also known as the empirical rule, and sometimes abbreviated 3sr, is a shorthand used to remember the percentage of values that lie within an interval estimate in a normal distribution: approximately 68%, 95%, and 99.7% of the values lie within one, two, and three standard deviations of the mean, respectively.
We are the 99%. We are the 99% is a political slogan widely used and coined during the 2011 Occupy movement. The phrase directly refers to the income and wealth inequality in the United States, with a concentration of wealth among the top-earning 1%. It reflects the understanding that "the 99%" are paying the price for the mistakes of a tiny ...
The Aussie women beat Team USA in swimming’s 4x100-meter relay here at Paris La Défense Arena, and flexed their collective muscle in a battle that’s expected to define this competition. Led ...