Decade
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Victimized by an educational system that collapsed over a
decade
ago, they have few skills that can help them find employment in Iraq’s blighted economy.
In this decade, China has taken the place of 1960's Japan, holding its exchange rate down in order to push export growth.
And in Gill v. Whitford, a landmark case from Wisconsin, the US Supreme Court will soon issue its first ruling in a
decade
on the constitutionality of gerrymandering.
But French opposition was also predictable because, for over a
decade
now, France has veered away from Europe and now finds itself increasingly isolated.
Business has been booming in this respect lately, with The Economist, Foreign Affairs, and many less exalted journals full of claims that the global order is crumbling, America’s ability (and willingness) to save it is in terminal decline, and the prospect of avoiding major conflict in the
decade
ahead is illusory.
Germany’s Five ShocksOver the last decade, Germany has been the slowest growing economy in the European Union, and Europe has been the slowest growing continent in the world.
The very people who stood for hours in the cold to glimpse Nicholas II aboard the royal ship were revolting against him a
decade
later.
In September, the world's leaders will reconvene at the UN to decide on their actions during the coming
decade.
After the Great Depression of the 1930’s, the vast wave of investment in industrial capacity during World War II made up the shortfall of the lost
decade.
Stationed for a
decade
as a KGB agent in the former East Germany, he saw Western democratic and business practices at close hand, and is believed to be committed to them.
Rejecting a deal with Israel in 2000, Fatah instead launched a violent revolt that has lasted ever since then, destroying the infrastructure built up in the Palestinian territories during the previous
decade.
The Next Phase of FinanceWASHINGTON, DC – The
decade
since the global financial crisis has been tumultuous, to say the least.
Grandmasters and Global GrowthCAMBRIDGE – As the global economy limps out of the last
decade
and enters a new one in 2010, what will be the next big driver of global growth?
Here’s betting that the “teens” is a
decade
in which artificial intelligence hits escape velocity, and starts to have an economic impact on par with the emergence of India and China.
So, despite a rough start from the financial crisis (which will still slow global growth this year and next), there is no reason why the new
decade
has to be an economic flop.
Political and economic reforms over the past
decade
were supposed to lead the country out of chronic economic crisis.
In particular, China has followed a strategy in the past
decade
or so that entails running large current-account surpluses and building up foreign-exchange reserves, which are now reported to be in excess of $3 trillion.
CAMBRIDGE – Ever since Donald Trump won the US presidential election, the press and financial markets have focused on his proposal to cut taxes and to spend $1 trillion on infrastructure over the next
decade.
Interestingly, a closer look at Japan’s performance over the past
decade
suggests little reason for persistent bearish sentiment.
Among EU countries, Italy has experienced the second-largest decline in output (after Greece) during the last
decade
– a trend that caused a significant deterioration in economic welfare.
Lebanon has been in this condition for decades, Iraq for more than a decade, and Syria, Libya, and Yemen for some five years now.
If we are successful, by the end of the
decade
we will save more than 20 million lives, prevent nearly one billion cases of illness, and save almost $12 billion in treatment costs alone.
By the time they qualify for pensions and the license to grumble, the century will be into its seventh or eighth
decade.
A
decade
ago, the conventional wisdom was that the world was a uni-polar American hegemony.
I think that Germany would be better off in a
decade
under more neo-liberal policies.
In regions with industries hit hard by competition from Chinese imports, wages have remained depressed and unemployment levels elevated for more than a
decade.
Almost a
decade
ago, outgoing Chinese President Hu Jintao identified the country’s “Malacca Dilemma,” referring to the channel between the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian island of Sumatra that connects the Indian and Pacific Oceans, as a grave strategic threat.
In both Korea and Japan, to cite two key examples, the problem is not simply that productivity in services has grown barely a quarter as fast as it has in manufacturing for a
decade.
In Korea, less than 10% of economy-wide R&D has been directed at the service sector in the last
decade.
For eight years, it never stopped forecasting that the budget would return to surplus by 2011, even though virtually every independent forecast showed that deficits would continue into the new
decade
unabated.
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