Decade
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To grasp the speed of this global rebalancing, consider that in 1990, more than 95% of R&D was carried out in developed countries; a
decade
later, the developed countries’ share had dropped to 76%.
Emerging-market countries will not only claim the lion’s share of global growth in the coming decade; they will also increasingly be the source of disruptive and frugal innovation.
In the first
decade
of the euro, nominal unit labor costs rose sharply in Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain, while virtually flatlining in Germany.
About the same number said that the US is “less important and powerful” than it was a
decade
ago.
CAMBRIDGE – As the United States and European economies continue to struggle, there is rising concern that they face a Japanese-style “lost decade.”
But if the US does experience slow growth over the next decade, can it all be blamed on the financial crisis?
In Europe, too, if there are adverse growth effects over the next decade, they cannot all be blamed on the financial crisis.
In the end, policymakers must remember that whether or not the US and Europe avoid a lost
decade
depends on their ability to retain productive vitality in their economies, not simply on short-term demand-stimulation measures.
The result was a lost
decade
for Latin America, but not for the bankers.
The resulting moral hazard would encourage another bout of exuberant lending, which led to further financial crises in developing countries in the subsequent
decade.
Latin American countries suffered a lost
decade
after 1982, and Japan has been stagnating for a quarter-century; both have survived.
Few today remember that it was UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, despite her vocal euroskepticism, who restarted Europe’s integration process after a
decade
in which it had stagnated.
Iran in the MiddlePARIS – International negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program have been taking place, in one form or another, for more than a
decade.
Yet such innovation – including the rapid progress in renewable energy over the last
decade
– has depended crucially on the relatively free flow of technologies across borders, not to mention China’s unique ability to scale up production and reduce costs quickly.
Someone, it seems, must be blamed for the pain of the last decade, and it is easier to blame Americans than to blame ourselves.
In the United States, in particular, the financial sector’s structure prior to the recent crisis emphasized the efficient generation of huge profits – and succeeded for more than a
decade.
For its part, Singapore is increasingly seeing the effects of a
decade
of regulatory reforms, including government grants and tax incentives to encourage foreign investment in the technology sector.
In short, a common approach toward Asia would reinvigorate the transatlantic relationship at just the right time, and would guarantee that, despite having suffered from internal disagreements in the last decade, the EU-US partnership remains the cornerstone of a peaceful and prosperous world order.
Since the ten-year US Treasury bond rate tends to be one percentage point above the average of expected future short-term interest rates over the next decade, even the expectation of five years of deep depression and near-zero short-term interest rates should not push the 10-Year Treasury rate below 3%.
One possibility is that those investing in financial markets expect economic policy to be so dysfunctional that the global economy will remain more or less in its current depressed state for perhaps a decade, or more.
In fact, even as China’s economy has boomed over the past decade, structural adjustment in its domestic sectors slowed, mainly owing to political constraints.
For these sectors, rapid investment-driven growth in the past
decade
has produced a mountain of excess capacity, reflected in stagnant prices and the banking sector’s soaring volume of bad loans, as price wars squeeze profitability and stimulate real-estate speculation.
In economic terms, China has no choice: it must remove the structural obstacles that stand in the way of rapid growth over the next
decade
or two.
Total employment in Puerto Rico has fallen from 1.25 million in the last quarter of the 2007 fiscal year workers to less than a million almost a
decade
later.
Although the postwar population boom and heavy regulation meant that real estate prices in many countries went up more often than down, a sudden collapse of the property market--such as happened in Japan a
decade
ago--may dramatically reduce the value of most people's savings.
The global financial safety net has grown since the financial crisis of a
decade
ago.
In the last decade, Uribe’s government made great strides in weakening the FARC.
The government’s macroeconomic stabilization efforts, coupled with policies that increased the country’s growth potential, allowed the interest rate to fall over the last
decade.
Income inequality grew rapidly in the last decade, but consumption inequality did not.
At the beginning of the decade, Brazil showed a certain aspiration, along with Turkey, to press ahead with an alternative nuclear deal with Iran.
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