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Given the difficulty of reversing these trends, it is difficult to imagine how China could maintain a growth rate anywhere close to 10% for another decade, despite its low per capita income.
As a result, the quality of Japan’s economic growth improved considerably, even as its rate fell by nearly half in the
decade
after the oil shock in 1973.
As a doctor in South Africa, I have provided abortion services for more than a
decade.
President George H.W. Bush inherited a Latin American debt crisis and a savings-and-loan disaster that had been brewing for more than a
decade.
But the Communist Party leadership has decided that in the next
decade
hairdressers, accountants, karaoke hostesses, tour guides, and movie directors will be the new pillars of economic performance.
For the US, the highest costs currently stem from espionage and crime, but over the next
decade
or so, war and terrorism could become greater threats than they are today.
Over the past decade, economics has pulled the US and India closer.
What does this mean for the economic “convergence” of developed and developing countries, a topic that lost salience after the Great Recession began a
decade
ago?
If this pace is maintained, BRIC consumers will be adding another $1 trillion to the global economy by the middle of this
decade.
By the end of the decade, they will be worth more than US consumers.
Indeed, at some point during this decade, the BRIC economies combined will become as big as the US economy, with China’s GDP alone reaching about two-thirds that of the US.
Beyond the BRICs, among the likely top ten contributors to global GDP growth this
decade
are South Korea, Mexico, and Turkey.
In the
decade
after September 11, 2001, the pendulum of public sentiment swung too far to the security pole; but it has begun to swing back in the absence of major new terrorist attacks.
A peaceful "Rose revolution" brought this about, but economics, not politics, will determine whether Georgia prospers or endures another lost
decade.
The recent murders of four Jews – a rabbi and three schoolchildren – in Toulouse constitute one of the worst anti-Semitic crimes of the last
decade
in Europe.
Nearly three million students now study outside their home countries – a 57% increase in the last
decade.
This changed during the following decade, as Iran supported Hezbollah’s rise in Lebanon and came to dominate Iraqi politics after the Shia majority there came to power in the wake of the US-led invasion.
Inflation of 2% per year implies 22% inflation over a decade, or 81% inflation over 30 years.
In the
decade
before Luther’s theses, Wittenberg printers published, on average, just eight books annually, all in Latin and aimed at local university audiences.
The enduring strength of Germany’s political center probably reflects the country’s remarkable economic success, which it has sustained for more than a decade, even as most of the rest of Europe has faced serious challenges.
Russian Interests In EuropeMOSCOW: Any analyst who dares define the national interests of a country caught in a
decade
of near revolutionary upheaval should be suspected of intellectual adventurism.
Then, in July, just before the G20 meeting in Hamburg, Germany, news broke that Chinese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo – who had been detained by the Chinese government for most of the last
decade
over his calls for democracy – had been diagnosed with late-stage liver cancer.
But over the last
decade
and a half, the Parliament has worked hard to secure more power, elbowing its way into the formal legislative process, securing for itself oversight authority, and even inserting itself into the process of selecting the European Commission president.
In the United Kingdom, the new government, led by Prime Minister Theresa May, has dropped the target of eliminating the deficit by the end of the
decade.
In the wake of the Brexit vote, May’s government has designed expansionary fiscal policies aimed at spurring growth and improving economic conditions for cities, regions, and groups left behind in the last
decade.
A
decade
later, in the midst of the Napoleonic Wars, with the British attacking American ships and impressing sailors, Congress broke with the past.
For those of us who lived and worked in the region during that turbulent decade, the post-Yugoslav wars remain fresh wounds.
North’s work goes a long way toward explaining the dramatic institutional and economic changes that have occurred in China over the last three decades, as well as illuminating the challenges that it will face over the next
decade.
Moreover, having built the needed physical infrastructure in the last
decade
(perhaps to excess), China is now emphasizing the software infrastructure needed to sustain the growth of its burgeoning services sector.
Because his predecessor Hu Jintao lacked sufficient political capital to do likewise, China followed a largely passive path for a decade, pursuing conciliatory diplomacy (which enraged its citizens) and economically conservative strategies (which included suspending necessary reforms).
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