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And those dynamics aren’t particular desirable: the eurozone’s working-age population is set to decline by about half a percentage point per year over the next
decade
at least.
The list of Chile's achievements includes fast economic growth, the halving of poverty in less than a decade, and the management of speculative capital through market-based restrictions on short-term inflows.
The share of US students going on to higher education after secondary school is now 67%, up 10% over the preceding
decade.
In the last decade, the average real (inflation-adjusted) return on deposits has been near zero.
Prominent articles ask whether Asia will experience a "lost
decade"
comparable to Latin America in the 1980s.
Its first
decade
in EMU was also characterized by rapid economic growth, fueled mainly by abundant and cheap capital inflows.
But during this first decade, a key underlying problem emerged as Greece lost competitiveness relative to Germany, just as Argentina had lost competitiveness to Brazil.
As with Argentina a
decade
ago, Greece no longer looks solvent to international investors when they consider the country’s slow growth and higher risk premia.
As a Chilean government minister late last decade, I remember the frustration of attending Mercosur gatherings (Chile is an associate member).
The increase in wealth inequality there over the last
decade
has been the most pronounced of any country.
By the end of this decade, according to the US Energy Information Administration, nearly half of the crude oil that America consumes will be produced at home, while 82% will come from the US side of the Atlantic.
Over the last decade, this group of small countries has recorded a cumulative surplus larger than even that of China.
Yet this prosperous and peaceful Europe is not idyllic; sometimes Europe is not at all an easy place for its citizens to live, as the tumultuous Balkan Wars and painful postcommunist transitions of the past
decade
demonstrated.
For more than a decade, the question “Whose issue is it?”
For starters, it has allowed international institutions to avoid acknowledging the shortcomings of the new development orthodoxy of the last two decades of the twentieth century, when Latin America lost over a decade, and Sub-Saharan Africa a quarter-century, of economic and social progress.
A
decade
ago, the federal debt was just 35% of GDP.
The share of GDP devoted to defense has fallen from 7.5% of GDP in 1966 to 3.2% of GDP this year, and the CBO projects it to fall to 2.6% during the next
decade.
Federal taxes now take 18.3% of GDP and are projected to remain at that level for the next decade, unless tax rules or rates are changed.
The last
decade
of war and lawlessness has facilitated the Taliban’s proliferation across Pakistan and Afghanistan, leading the Taliban to consider itself an indefatigable force – a belief that could lead its leaders to undercut any progress toward stability.
A
decade
of running and hiding from unrelenting surveillance and targeted drone attacks has caused the movement to splinter.
The second problem is economic: growth in Europe has fallen far short of that in the United States,
decade
after
decade.
When commodity prices boomed in the middle of the last decade, the rule called for huge budget surpluses – which Chile achieved, repaying almost all of its public debt and accumulating a sizable rainy-day fund.
The Inequality PuzzleNEW YORK – Over the past decade, income inequality has come to be ranked alongside terrorism, climate change, pandemics, and economic stagnation as one of the most urgent issues on the international policy agenda.
It is not easy to do this when the rich get richer – enjoying their biggest spree since the Roaring Twenties – and average household income remains stagnant for the third
decade
running.
While the jihadi terrorist movement had been growing for a decade, 9/11 was the turning point.
Bernie Sanders, a political independent running as a Democrat, is proposing a $15.3 trillion tax increase over the next
decade.
But Trump’s proposed change runs in exactly the opposite direction, seeking to reduce total revenues over the next
decade
by $9.5 trillion (Cruz’s plan targeted an $8.6 trillion reduction and called for a flat income tax set at a rate of 10%).
Having spent a
decade
dismantling the debris of state socialism, most of these countries chafe at the idea of importing the European social market's idea of solidarity via the EU.
I believe that a stability pact for the region could help to match what was achieved a
decade
ago in the Balkans.
Emerging Markets’
Decade
of DisruptionOver the past decade, emerging markets have become the global economy’s main growth engine.
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