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But over the last decade, Latin American politicians have made presidential systems more flexible by finding innovative ways to remove unpopular presidents.
Unfortunately, that effort ceased over the last
decade.
The Clean-Energy MoonshotNEW YORK – In May 1961, President John F. Kennedy stirred America and the world with these words: “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this
decade
is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth.”
These are important goals for a region like Latin America and the Caribbean, where one in four adults is obese – a trend that has worsened over the last
decade.
There are many reasons for slow productivity growth, not least a
decade
of low investment in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis.
Most of all, it stakes a claim to a degree of philosophical coherence of which the various “third ways” of the last
decade
could only dream.
The project has been a rare World Bank success, recording almost 2,000 reforms over the past decade, and has proved to be a valuable tool for policymakers in developing economies to spur reform and enhance investment.
With the German corporate sector having run up massive profits for more than a decade, the resources are certainly available.
More than a
decade
after the fact, the Kremlin still decries NATO’s eastward enlargement as a security threat.
In his
decade
in power, Putin has consolidated and strengthened the security forces, intimidated and jailed opponents, and muzzled the media and courts.
Specifically, the term BRIC was coined more than a
decade
ago by then-Goldman Sachs analyst Jim O’Neill, who did not initially count South Africa among the ranks of the major emerging economies.
America’s Islamist Allies of ConvenienceNEW DELHI – In just one decade, the United States has intervened militarily in three Muslim-majority countries and overthrown their governments.
France not only accounts for roughly 22% of eurozone GDP and 20% of its population – behind only Germany – but also has the healthiest demography in the eurozone, whereas the German population is projected to decline over the next
decade.
By contrast, four years after US per capita national income peaked in 1929, it was still down 28%, and would not return to its 1929 peak for a full
decade.
But as Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer of the University of California, Berkeley, have shown, countries throughout the post-war period that lacked the monetary or fiscal space to deal with a financial crisis often suffered from output shortfalls of 10% or more even a
decade
after the fact.
A coalition government comprising the AKP and the MHP cannot be ruled out, but such an alliance would detract from the inclusive agenda that won the AKP much of its support during the past
decade.
HONG KONG – Nowadays there is ample evidence that financial systems, whether in Asia in the 1990’s or a
decade
later in the United States and Europe, are vulnerable to breakdowns.
Consider that in May 1961, President John F. Kennedy called on Americans to land a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth before the end of the
decade.
Some climate change activists actually acknowledge this: Australian author Tim Flannery recently told an interviewer that climate change is “the only issue we should worry about for the next decade.”
Yugoslavia collapsed in the early 1990’s, triggering a
decade
of brutal wars from Croatia to Kosovo.
With faster population and productivity growth, most emerging-market economies’ relative growth advantage over the developed economies will remain sizeable, albeit smaller than in the last
decade.
Three Cheers for RegulationCAMBRIDGE – One of the striking changes any rich-world traveler to low-income countries cannot fail to have missed during the past
decade
or so is the rapid spread of mobile phone use, followed now by expanding mobile Internet access.
Two members of Congress have already been shot this
decade
(Gabrielle Giffords in 2011 and Steve Scalise earlier this year).
The peripheral eurozone countries became over-indebted in the last
decade
because the bond market failed to provide a signal that debts were too high.
Japan’s bold monetary easing, for example, was a critical element of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s strategy for lifting the Japanese economy out of more than a
decade
of recession – and it has led to a remarkable recovery.
History suggests that once an insurgency reaches “critical mass,” it takes a
decade
or more to eradicate it.
Trade data tell the story: after increasing by about 7% annually in the
decade
before 2008, world trade fell faster than global GDP in 2009 (and more sharply than during the Great Depression).
The World Economy in 2018STANFORD – All major macroeconomic indicators – growth, unemployment, and inflation – suggest that 2017 will be the American economy’s best year in a
decade.
Third, let us hope that the Republican tax package will, if enacted, deliver on its promise of increased investment, output, productivity, and wages over the coming
decade.
At the current rate, Afghanistan’s old growth forest could vanish within a
decade.
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