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Again, the key argument was the need to avoid a repeat of Japan’s “lost decade.”
The basis for the scare story about Japan is that its GDP has grown over the last
decade
at an average annual rate of only 0.6% compared to 1.7 % for the US.
The difference is actually much smaller than often assumed, but at first sight a growth rate of 0.6 % qualifies as a lost
decade.
According to that standard, one could argue that a good part of Europe also “lost” the last decade, since Germany achieved about the same growth rates as Japan (0.6%) and Italy did even worse (0.2 %); only France and Spain performed somewhat better.
When one looks at GDP/WAP (defined as population aged 20-60), one gets a surprising result: Japan has actually done better than the US or most European countries over the last
decade.
Another indication that Japan has fully used its potential is that the unemployment rate has been constant over the last
decade.
Looking to the
decade
ahead, this analysis suggests that one can predict the rich countries’ relative growth rates based on the growth pattern of their working-age populations, which one already knows today, given that anybody starting to work over the next two decades has already been born.
First, the idea of a Japanese-style “lost decade” is misleading – even when applied to Japan.
Slow growth in Japan over the last
decade
was due not to insufficiently aggressive macroeconomic policies, but to an unfavorable demographic trend.
Burned by a
decade
of wishful thinking and over-expectations – from the “color revolutions” in the post-Soviet world to the Arab Spring – Western public opinion has chosen to hear only bad news now.
Thanks to agreements between the rebels and the government that Nelson Mandela and South African Vice President Jacob Zuma helped broker, Burundi can now either turn decisively away from civil strife, or risk a return to the machete politics that have mauled Africa's Great Lakes region for a
decade.
Meanwhile, domestic oil production is plummeting, down more than 50% over the last
decade.
But, as some of the French protestors argued, their focus is on financial survival until “the end of the month,” not on benefits a
decade
from now.
Nowadays, no hurricane or heat wave passes without a politician or activist claiming it as evidence of the need for a global climate deal, like the one that just got postponed until the end of the
decade
in Durban, South Africa.
Across two full pages inside, the paper presented a graph of seasonal deaths over the past decade, and indicated with alarming red spots how summer heat waves have killed dozens of Swedes.
Chocolate-Fueled GrowthVIENNA – As an African, my dream for the next
decade
is to see the continent producing and selling chocolate to 300 million Chinese, instead of exporting raw commodities like cocoa.
While many have touted Africa’s success in maintaining a 5-6% average GDP growth rate during the past decade, this masks the reality that by 2005, sub-Saharan Africa was little better off than it was a quarter-century earlier: it was still the world’s poorest region, with just over half of its population living on less than $1.25 a day in purchasing parity terms.
In fact, Japanese savers have been benefiting from this phenomenon for more than a decade, reaping higher real returns than their counterparts in the US, even though Japan’s near-zero nominal interest rates are much lower than America’s.
Almost sixty years-old and in power for more than a decade, he is unlikely to change.
In the US, the five states with the largest gains in oil production this
decade
recorded employment growth of 2.75% in 2017, double the national average.
And, while structural reforms are necessary, some measures – for example, labor-market liberalization and pension overhauls – may boost the eurozone’s savings rate and thus weaken aggregate demand further (as occurred in Germany following its structural reforms a
decade
ago).
After a
decade
of enterprise restructuring, the United States has ushered in the era of the internet.
Even if governments rethink their ban on new nuclear plants, accelerate development of windmills and solar panels, and search for new gas supplies, Europe will remain dependent on Russian gas for more than a
decade.
In the end, the next
decade
will be marked by a delicate balance in which Europe remains dependent on Russian gas, but Russia’s need for export revenues will also make it dependent on Europe.
Over the next decade, as Helsinki Watch evolved into the globally recognized group Human Rights Watch, Alexeyeva’s contributions continued to bear fruit.
This system worked to drive overall economic growth and financial rewards in the first phase of China’s post-reform growth, but the incomes of ordinary Chinese have stagnated over the past decade, their interests have been neglected, capital has been misallocated, and major negative environmental and social side effects have emerged.
The highest costs currently stem from espionage and crime; but, over the next
decade
or so, cyber war and cyber terrorism may become greater threats than they are today.
Chinese military spending now equals the combined defense expenditure of France, Japan, and the UK; just a
decade
ago, pacifist Japan outspent China on defense.
The Two Best Ways to Reduce Infant MortalityBANGKOK – One of the more ambitious targets of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is the commitment to end preventable deaths of newborns and children over the next
decade.
During the first
decade
of the new century, Russia benefited from the combined effect of an old hydrocarbon industry that privatization in the 1990s had made more efficient and high oil prices.
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