Decade
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The near-unprecedented levels of inequality within countries today helps to explain the past
decade
of political upheaval and social strife, from the open-ended conflicts in the Middle East to the rise of populism and xenophobia in the West.
A
decade
ago, the world had a foretaste of what can happen when ethnic divisions are exploited for sinister political purposes.
If it had, the effects on the British economy would have been minimal for nearly a
decade
– in contrast to the real effects of its short-lived membership of the ERM in 1990-2.
These differences have persisted in the most recent decade, even though tepid economic growth and labor displacement by smarter machines have weakened demand for high-skill, high-cognition occupations.
First, it is important to acknowledge that weak aggregate demand and anemic economic growth, not an acceleration in the labor-displacement rate, explains the slow jobs growth of the last
decade.
The Twilight of Angela MerkelBERLIN – Amid all the crises and upheavals that have battered the European Union over the past decade, one fixed point has been the stolid, stable government of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
What new goods and services will Brazil and the others export a
decade
from now, and to which markets?
The IMF also reckons that the advanced countries must cut spending or increase taxes by nine percentage points of GDP on average over the current decade, in order to bring the public-debt ratio to 60% of GDP by 2030.
For starters, China has a very high saving rate – above 45% over the last decade, much higher than in the advanced economies – which enables it to sustain higher debt levels.
For more than a decade, Pakistan and the US were close allies.
Indeed, according to the International Monetary Fund, Chinese corporate, government, and household debt has increased by about $23 trillion in the last
decade
alone, and its debt-to-GDP ratio has risen by around 100 percentage points, to more than 250%.
In the
decade
leading up to the crisis, the emerging European economies were remarkably successful.
China’s annual economic growth has been roughly 8-9% for the last 26 years;India has recorded similar rates for the last
decade.
But, as the Lakhdar Brahimi Panel concluded a
decade
ago, after reviewing some of the catastrophic failures of peace processes in the 1990’s, the responsibility of the UN Secretariat must be to tell the UN Security Council what it needs to hear, not what it wants to hear.
In the
decade
since, the distribution of opioid drugs has expanded substantially, driving a rapid increase in addiction and death rates.
Too little was done in the aftermath of the financial crisis a
decade
ago to stimulate aggregate demand.
We can all agree that the stakes in a better understanding of the lessons of macroeconomic history, and in avoiding future events like those of the last decade, are very high.
For those inclined to see and remember, the situation in Rakhine State recalls the ethnic cleansing that occurred in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s and the even worse massacres in Rwanda in the same
decade.
Similarly, China’s Communist Revolution began with a
decade
of attacks on the middle and professional classes and a reshaping of the countryside, culminating in the Great Leap Forward of 1958-59.
There are of course important economic risks, including the mispricing of assets caused by a
decade
of ultra-low interest rates, the shifts in demand caused by the Chinese economy’s changing structure, and European economies’ persistent weakness.
Over the next decade, global competition will come to be defined as competition over the global value chain.
Over the last decade, MNCs have increasingly expressed interest in establishing regional and global headquarters and R&D centers in Shanghai.
Third, while many investors do have short time horizons, development of resources in the oil industry can easily extend to more than a
decade.
The IPCC report appeals to governments to take urgent action to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions significantly within the next
decade.
The Return of Ireland’s Housing BubbleZURICH – After having endured the collapse of its housing market less than a
decade
ago, Ireland has lately been experiencing a blistering recovery in prices, which already have risen in Dublin by some 50% from the trough in 2010.
And a
decade
earlier, Sweden, Norway, and Finland experienced property-price declines of 30-50%.
With most Americans’ incomes stagnating for a
decade
and a half, it was clear that the US economic model was not delivering for most citizens, whatever official GDP data said.
Deflationary pressure in Japan – and only in Japan – has persisted for well over a
decade.
Thanks to the continued surge in corporate profitability and firms’ sustained deleveraging efforts during the last
decade
and a half, indebtedness has fallen dramatically.
In Pakistan, more than 50,000 people have lost their lives in the terror attacks of the last
decade.
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