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The crises that erupted in countries like Ireland and Greece a decade ago would not have been so severe had their debt been GDP-linked.
It was the end of a decade in which oil prices had undergone two dramatic increases, and most of the various geniuses of the day were confidently predicting that they would continue to soar, from under $40 per barrel – a historic high at that time – to above $100.
The fact is that before the US operation to kill Bin Laden, Al Qaeda’s symbolic head, the emerging democratic Arab revolutions had already, in just a few short months, done as much to marginalize and weaken his terrorist movement in the Islamic world as the war on terror had achieved in a decade.
Indeed, despite the decade of the West’s war on terror, and Saudi Arabia’s longer-term alliance with the US, the Kingdom’s Wahhabi religious establishment has continued to bankroll Islamic extremist ideologies around the world.
Having been extended for another decade last year, it is now set to remain in force until 2025.
Similarly, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has warned that 56% of total employment in Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam is “at high risk of displacement due to technology over the next decade or two.”
The Distance Between the First and Third RomeMOSCOW/ROME: For a decade, Pope John Paul II has been flying in circles around Mother Russia: one day he visits the Baltics or his homeland of Poland; the next, Orthodox Romania and Georgia.
But, a decade after communism’s collapse, it is Russia’s churchmen, not its politicians, who are blocking the way.
Those countries whose prices have shot up over the last decade point the finger, correctly, at German competitive disinflation, which has led the ECB to keep interest rates low instead of helping them to halt the price spiral.
In fact, the policy focus should have switched at least a decade ago to the adverse distributional consequences that can result from globalization.
These inflated asset prices reflect the exceptionally easy monetary policy that has prevailed for almost a decade.
Smart-grid hardware has been deployed widely in the past decade, and as companies figure out how to use big data and analytic tools, it will become much more important.
Trade as a share of its total economic activity has halved in the past decade, from more than 60% of GDP in 2007 to just over 30% today.
In the last 15 years, India has pulled more people out of poverty than in the previous 45 – 10 million people a year on average in the last decade.
France deserves applause for its brave effort to revive a process that has been going nowhere for the better part of a decade.
But it hasn’t, and, at the start of a new decade, it is time for policymakers to take religion seriously.
A decade later, it has reduced its waste by 40%.
Faster economic growth, rising incomes, and wealth redistribution over the past decade – fueled by sound macroeconomic policies, foreign investment, and rocketing commodity prices – have helped to reduce poverty rates by 13 percentage points, and extreme poverty by five percentage points.
While standards for students in the region’s upper socioeconomic quintile rose over the past decade, there was little change in the lower quintile, where 70% of students failed to reach the most basic levels.
As a result, unemployment is averaging 10% this decade and has not been below 8% for 20 years.
After a period of calm that has now lasted a decade, dire economic warnings are back.
In the decade since the last crisis, Argentine policymakers have broken almost every rule in the economic-policy playbook.
What saved Argentina over the last decade were highly favorable external conditions: sky-high global commodity prices and technological innovations that greatly increased farm yields.
With rising tax revenues and the burden of debt gone after the default a decade ago, the government went on a spending spree: real public expenditure grew at double-digit rates most years since 2002.
Over the past decade, the tabloid newspaper The News of the World, owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, targeted 4,000 people’s voicemail.
To the scientific community, the evidence on climate change has, of course, been overwhelming for more than a decade and a half.
For example, the US monetary base rose at an annual rate of 9% from 1985 to 1995, and then slowed to 6% in the next decade.
The consumer price index (CPI) rose at a 3.5% rate from 1985 to 1995, and then slowed to just 2.5% in the decade to 2005.
His creed became the ethos of a decade of corporate and financial-sector excesses that ended in the late 1980’s collapse of the junk-bond market and the Savings & Loan crisis.
That Japan acted with alacrity after September 11 th reflects the trauma experienced during the Gulf War a decade ago.
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