a third of a percentage point/ slightly positive?
In 2011, the IMF concluded the spillover of the Fed’s first round of QE onto its trading partners was significantly positive, raising their output by as much as a third of a percentage point, while the spillover of the second round was slightly positive.
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"a third of a percentage point" = How much is this?
= or should I ask " how much percentage is this? "

"slightly positive" = just above zero? percentage?

Please help me. =]

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a third of a percentage point/ slightly positive?
In 2011, the IMF concluded the spillover of the Fed’s first round of QE onto its trading partners was significantly positive, raising their output by as much as a third of a percentage point, while the spillover of the second round was slightly positive. 
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"a third of a percentage point" = How much is this? 
= or should I ask " how much percentage is this? "

"slightly positive" = just above zero? percentage?

Please help me. =]

Answer

+0.33% positive. a fraction of 1 percent.
The key word showing that it is positive is 'raising'.

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Thank you!

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It means 0.3% (rounded to one decimal place) or what we'd call "oh-point-three-recurring percent" or perhaps write as 0.3333333% or 0.3 with a dot on top of the 3 to indicate an infinite number of 3s.

Your question should be "What percentage is this?". In the same way we ask "What quantity is X?" instead of 'how much qu..x--x--x'.

The figure, 0.33%, is indeed slightly positive, though apparently it's *significantly/very positive* according to the context, and fair enough. Some systems have forces that serve to keep figures flat. Maybe even 0.1% would have been a lot for that year.

Say a high-school of population 1000 students increases it's enrollment total by 0.3%. Well that's only 3 students - probably not much, but yes it all depends on context.

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