Decade
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Over the last
decade
we moved from complete aversion to the idea of reform to a policy of mutant reforms pursued for corrupt motives, to the gradual adaptation of legitimate Western practices.
Over the course of a
decade
we did, perhaps, make ourselves more ill through our own actions, but now we are recovering.
The world's other population giant, India, began its own economic reforms one
decade
later.
India's reforms have been more gradual, the effects less dramatic at first, but after nearly a decade, India too is making a historical breakthrough.
The first
decade
of the 21st century could well see India's average income per person double, and India's role in the world economy rise dramatically.
With further reforms, growth could reach 9% per year, which would produce a rise of per capita income each year of around 7%, enough to double income per person in a
decade.
This was not an issue in the disinflationary environment of the last decade, but it is becoming more of one, which is probably what prompted World Bank President Robert Zoellick’s proposal to restore a role for gold.
And the International Monetary Fund’s projections for 2023 suggest that Italy will still not have fully recovered from the cumulative output losses of the past
decade.
Since the crisis erupted a
decade
ago, economic stagnation and costly banking weaknesses have propelled debt burdens higher still, despite a
decade
of exceptionally low interest rates.
A
decade
later, the amendment turned Oscar Wilde’s love letters to his paramour “Bosie,” Lord Alfred Douglas, into criminal evidence against Wilde himself.
Housing booms thus create only an illusion of wealth, though it is compelling enough to induce excessive consumption, as occurred in the United States over the last
decade.
Housing booms can last a long time, typically more than a
decade.
The last
decade
saw the peak of an unprecedented housing boom in most of the rich world.
The bust, with its banking problems and unemployment, is likely to last for most of the coming decade, depressing growth in all those countries which looked so strong in 2008.
The emerging world’s boom might well stretch over the entire next decade, as hundreds of millions of homes are built.
The result – in the United States and across most major economies – has been a rare moment of optimism in the context of the last
decade.
The results were impressive: Brazil reduced the average rate of Amazon deforestation by over 60% over the last decade, absorbing about 3.6 billion tons of carbon dioxide, more than any other country.
Indeed, the intermittent over-valuation of entire economic sectors – recall the dot-com bubble from a
decade
ago – indicates that financial markets are often excessively focused on the long term.
While the overall average length of time for holding a stock has declined, the impact on senior managers is unclear, because the holding period for core institutional investors, like Vanguard and Fidelity, has not changed in the past
decade
or two from its two- or three-year baseline.
When the Oxford University economist Tony Atkinson looked at the UK’s economic performance through the lens of inequality, the 1980s, generally considered a strong
decade
in terms of growth, appeared much worse; and the 1990s, regarded as a low-growth decade, appeared much better.
How different it all seemed a
decade
ago!
Chronically ill, Colombia has returned to the same critical juncture it faced a
decade
ago.
Keeping Africa's Turnaround on TrackMONROVIA – For more than a decade, much of Africa has been moving forward.
Without strong policy action, the eurozone, like Japan since the 1990s, faces a lost
decade
or two of painfully slow growth.
Something very similar occurred in Ecuador and Venezuela throughout the
decade.
From that fateful day, the advanced capitalist world has experienced its longest period of economic stagnation since the
decade
that began with the 1929 Wall Street crash and ended with the outbreak of World War II ten years later.
If “Macroneconomics” – the attempt to combine conservative structural policies with progressive macroeconomics – succeeds in replacing the market fundamentalism that failed in 2007, the lost
decade
of economic stagnation could soon be over – at least for Europe.
There is also a surprising phenomenon that favors everyone: prices of technology-based capital assets imported by Latin America have been falling throughout the past
decade.
For the last decade, the PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain) were the eurozone's consumers of first and last resort, spending more than their income and running ever-larger current-account deficits.
As this month marks the tenth anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, it may help to go back a
decade
and pick up the story from there.
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