Decade
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The federal budget deficit is projected to increase from about 3.5% of GDP in recent years to 5% in 2018 and for the rest of the
decade.
The debt-to-GDP ratio has doubled in the last ten years, to 75%, and is projected to rise to nearly 100% during the coming
decade.
The cumulative increase in the debt during the
decade
will therefore be about $10 trillion.
All of this could make new savers happy, as returns on savings – which have been subject to severe financial repression for most of the last
decade
– begin to rise.
When the Arab Spring protests erupted a
decade
later, the US security establishment viewed the sudden vulnerability of the Qaddafi and Assad regimes as a similar opportunity to install new regimes in Libya and Syria.
In several EU countries, more than a quarter of the population has been unemployed for close to a decade, and political discontent is boiling over into extremism.
Wolf then announced his “fear that the combination of the fragility of the financial system with the huge rewards it generates for insiders will destroy something even more important – the political legitimacy of the market economy itself...”For Wolf, the solution is to require that such bankers receive their pay in installments over the
decade
after which they have done their work.
A
decade
later, hope has given way to disappointment, reflected in headlines like “Gene Map Yields Few New Cures.”
The Last Resource FrontierOXFORD –In the coming decade, extraction of oil, gas, and mineral ores will constitute by far the most important economic opportunity in Africa’s history.
If the G-20 is to be effective as a development instrument, it should begin to tackle the single most important financial flow that Africa and other low-income regions will attract in this new
decade.
Until a
decade
ago, Turkey was regarded as no more than a staunch NATO ally.
As a result, in less than a decade, GDP has tripled, making Turkey the world’s 16th largest economy.
Turkey’s internal transformation over the past
decade
has placed it in an ideal position to benefit the region – and thus the global community.
Surveys carried out in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Bolivia, and Paraguay in the last
decade
have shown that people exposed to corruption have less confidence in the political system and lower trust in other citizens.
Fast-forward almost a
decade.
By contrast, the mass killing in Rwanda a
decade
ago and now in Darfur, Sudan, demonstrate the high price of judging sovereignty to be supreme and thus doing little to prevent the slaughter of innocents.
Indeed, the central feature of the first
decade
of the Pope's reign was his struggle against dictatorship--Communist dictatorship in particular.
More than half of all Africans live in countries that have not conducted a labor-force survey in at least a
decade.
This is significant, but not nearly as large as the previous proposal to cut the rate to 25% – which, according to independent analysts, would have led to about $10 trillion in revenue losses over the course of just one
decade.
Over the last decade, Turkey has developed different types of relationships with the countries of the Middle East, targeting improved relations with both governments and the public.
Kim Jong Il's father similarly ensured a smooth succession a
decade
ago by appointing family members to positions of power for 40 years, clearing the way by sending the incumbents to concentration camps.
Peru and Chile, by contrast, are natural-resource exporters that derived huge benefits from the China-driven commodity boom of the last
decade.
All of this means not only that the era of cheap oil is over, but also that, within the next
decade
or so, major oil-producing countries will struggle against costly geological constraints.
Over the last decade, growth rates in the advanced economies have averaged 1.2%, down from an average of 3.1% during the previous 25 years.
So, it stands to reason that the past
decade
of sluggish growth has contributed to the surge of a damaging form of populist nationalism that is taking hold in a growing number of countries.
Europe’s Overly Complex UnionPRINCETON – The European Union is currently facing challenges more severe than even the debt crisis that threatened to sink the eurozone earlier this
decade.
Europeans are more worried about the future than they were a
decade
ago, not least because they are not convinced that their political leaders can respond effectively to current challenges.
Even before intervening in Ukraine, Putin was failing to deliver on his grand promise, made in 2003, to double the size of Russia’s economy within a
decade.
After the Oslo agreements were reached a
decade
ago, supporters of the peace process, in Israel and abroad, hoped that the PLO - an armed national liberation movement deeply enmeshed in terrorism - would transform itself into a responsible and viable political structure.
After its experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq over the past decade, the US can hardly afford a Syrian quagmire.
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