Decade
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That is why the prospect of rising German labor costs, after a
decade
of stasis, is actually one of the few positive economic developments on the European scene – hardly something that the ECB should resist.
Given that China’s TFP growth has averaged 4% for more than 30 years, and is likely to slow in the coming decade, this scenario is improbable.
Shadows from a
decade
of Balkan wars may at last be lifting.
And, as has happened repeatedly over the last decade, a few months into the year, others’ more optimistic forecasts are being revised downward.
As for the Middle East, risks remain abundant, with a bumpy economic and political transition likely to take more than a
decade.
While gains from fundamental tax reform – say, replacing the current tax system with a broad-based consumption tax – are large, on the order of 0.5-1 percentage point per year of economic growth for a decade, corporate-tax reform would also boost growth.
This is the fastest growth in a number of years – although the last decade’s average growth rate of 3.3% was barely lower than the rate in the previous
decade
– and close to the pace of the previous two decades before that.
And, in 1991, the first Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I) cut the bloated US and Soviet nuclear arsenals by 80% over a
decade.
At the beginning of this century, Chinese- and Indian-born engineers were running one-quarter of Silicon Valley’s technology businesses, which accounted for $17.8 billion in sales; and, in 2005, immigrants had helped to start one-quarter of all US technology start-ups during the previous
decade.
Putin plans to remain in power for at least another
decade.
According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), this repeal alone will reduce the number of insured Americans by 13 million over the next decade, and increase average health-insurance premiums by about 10%.
Second, the CBO estimates that the law will add $1.45 trillion to the deficit over the next decade, which could trigger spending cuts to health-insurance programs for the elderly, poor, and disabled, such as Medicare and Medicaid.
According to the Joint Committee on Taxation, an independent body that evaluates tax proposals before Congress, Americans earning more than $1 million per year will see their annual tax bill fall by an average of $12,865 over the next
decade.
The federal budget is balanced for the first time in a
decade.
A
decade
ago, Japan’s drug-approval process was lethargic relative to that of other developed economies.
The Cold War ended a generation ago; the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, are nearly a
decade
in the past.
With good regulation, during the coming
decade
it can do the most good worldwide in terms of cutting CO2 emissions and improving living conditions.
Some petroleum experts argue that world oil production will peak in a
decade
or so.
Over the past decade, the number of Moroccan women taking an active role in Islamist associations or political parties increased dramatically.
The Free-Trade MiraclePRAGUE – Global free trade provides the greatest opportunity to improve human welfare over the next
decade
and a half.
The wrong approach could easily lock the world into a carbon-based economy for another
decade
or more, pushing us far beyond the two-degree threshold.
Engineering an Energy MiracleVILNIUS – Looking back at the last
decade
in energy and climate policy evokes mixed feelings.
Having presided over the country for more than a decade, Putin is in a unique position to achieve what no previous Russian leader could: making Russia part of the solution to global challenges, rather than part of the problem.
But it appreciated 37% in the subsequent
decade.
The US Department of Defense was the only customer for integrated circuits in 1962, but by the end of the
decade
consumers were buying transistor radios and pocket calculators in droves.
Spending on companion animals in the US alone has been growing rapidly over the past decade, rising from an already very substantial $43 billion in 2008 to an estimated $72 billion this year.
Specifically, not much more than a
decade
is needed for the share of global GDP generated by developing economies to pass the 50% mark when measured in market prices.
Beginning in the middle of that decade, however, the trade surplus for services increased significantly, while the deficit for goods started to expand.
America’s Pacific RebalanceWASHINGTON, DC – The United States military has entered a period of historic change after more than a
decade
of war following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
To be sure, the US is facing a new fiscal reality, and the defense budget must be reduced by $487 billion over the next
decade.
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