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The US consumer, whose gluttony helped fuel growth throughout the world for more than a decade, seems finally set to go on a diet.
Outside Japan, Asia policymakers certainly don’t seem amenable to exchange-rate appreciationSince the beginning of this decade, at least a few economists (including me) have warned that the global trade and current-account imbalances needed to be reined in to reduce the chance of a severe financial crisis.
Whatever Happened to Saving for a Rainy Day?CAMBRIDGE – More than a
decade
ago, I undertook a study, together with Graciela Kaminsky of George Washington University and Carlos Végh, now the World Bank’s chief economist for Latin America and the Caribbean, examining more than 100 countries’ fiscal policies for much of the postwar era.
During a
decade
of prosperity, with output close to potential most of the time, government spending outpaced growth, and government debt ballooned.
But most Americans today are worse off – with lower real (inflation-adjusted) incomes – than they were in 1997, a
decade
and a half ago.
BERKELEY – A double-dip recession is one thing, but a lost
decade
is something far more sinister.
Despite being a period of chronic high unemployment, corporate bankruptcies, and continuing financial difficulties, the 1930’s recorded the fastest productivity growth of any
decade
in US history.
Europe’s Precarious New NormalLONDON – A
decade
ago, ten countries joined the European Union.
The book’s release follows more than a
decade
of painstaking research by Piketty and others, including Oxford University’s Tony Atkinson.
A
decade
ago, EU leaders talked confidently about projecting stability abroad.
That quiet, so different from the protests that greeted the North American Free Trade Area's creation a
decade
ago, reflects NAFTA's clear achievement in facilitating and integrating economic exchange among its three partners.
Such an approach has vaulted Cape Verde off the bottom of development indices into the respectable ranks of middle-income countries within a
decade.
The UK population is projected to surpass 70 million before the end of the next decade, an increase of 3.6 million, or 5.5%, owing to net immigration and a surplus of births over deaths among the newcomers.
The first message will resonate with those who believe that a key lesson of the Asian crisis a
decade
ago is that countries opened themselves to certain types of flows – especially foreign currency debt – before they were ready.
And limits on financial institutions’ leverage will change only in the next
decade.
Roughly 1.5 million of North Korea’s 23 million people are estimated to have starved to death over the past
decade.
Pakistani policy is threatening not only a
decade
and a half of US effort in Afghanistan, but also the lives of the thousands of American soldiers still stationed there.
For more than a
decade
prior to the crisis that began in 2008, the US economy fueled itself (and much of the global economy) with excessive consumption.
Vaccine technology has leaped forward in the past
decade.
The story of the collapse of Lehman Brothers a
decade
ago is a case in point – but with a slight twist.
But an even more important point to note is that the profiles of the world’s largest companies today are very different from those of a
decade
ago.
The
decade
preceding the global financial crisis was in many ways the best ever for the developing world.
Germany has radically reduced its unemployment rate in the last decade, even during the economic crisis.
By agreeing to limit the current tax rates for just two years, the tax package reduces the projected national debt at the end of the
decade
(relative to what it would have been with the Obama budget) by some $2 trillion or nearly 10% of GDP in 2020.
All of this might happen in the next decade, or perhaps in the
decade
after that.
In the last decade, sub-Saharan Africa recorded a "net transfer" (new borrowing minus debt service on past loans) of negative $11 billion.
But, over the last decade, structural changes to China’s economy have caused unemployment pressure to decline significantly – a trend that can be corroborated by across-the-board wage increases.
Over the next decade, growth in this kind of developing-country demand will help offset the slow growth of demand in industrial countries.
Over the last decade, the economies of Eastern Europe and Central Asia have recorded spectacular gains, buttressed by ambitious market and public-sector reforms.
While the country should be able to avoid a hard landing, it can expect annual growth to remain at 6-7% over the next
decade.
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