Decade
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That represents a substantial turnaround from the past
decade
, when the unemployment rate rose from 4% to 10% and the labor-force participation rate fell from 67% to 65%, reducing GDP by about 1.6% per year.
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The number of people killed in civil wars also is much lower today than it was a
decade
ago or two.
From over 12,000 civilians deliberately killed in civil wars in 1997 and 1998, a
decade
later, this figure stands at 4,000.
Thus, even though every civilian killed, maimed, raped, or tortured is one too many, the fact that the number of civilian casualties is clearly lower today than it was a
decade
ago, is good news.
Over 50 percent of managers are women these days, and in the 15 professions projected to grow the most in the next decade, all but two of them are dominated by women.
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