Decade
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China’s overall trade surplus as a share of GDP has fallen steadily over the last
decade
– from nearly 10% in 2007 to just above 1% in 2017 – meaning that the country’s external account is basically balanced.
But, rather than keeping an eye on that ball, the United States wasted the first
decade
of this century mired in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
For a
decade
or so, many in the US have claimed that China’s categorization as a developing country, and the resulting favorable treatment it enjoys at the WTO, do not reflect the true strength of an economy whose goods exports amount to $2 trillion, or 11% of world trade.
Moreover, by the end of the next decade, information and communication technology (ICT) will drive economic growth and power productivity gains.
But it took another
decade
of hard-nosed, detailed negotiations, entailing efforts to strengthen the EU’s external borders, to reach the point, in 1995, where internal border controls could actually be lifted.
Financial and technical assistance to the region in the 1990s and 2000s was critical to its recovery from the lost
decade
of the 1980s.
For example, anti-arrhythmic drugs were prescribed widely – with the United States Food and Drug Administration’s approval – to heart-attack victims for more than a decade, under the assumption that reducing heart-rhythm abnormalities would decrease mortality rates.
Following this revelation, a British research team reported a clinical trial that they had carried out more than a
decade
earlier.
Our Deep Debt FutureTILBURG, NETHERLANDS – The 1980’s was the
decade
in which high inflation was supposedly consigned to the dustbin of history, while the 1990’s were all about the so-called new economy.
Governor Mervyn King of the Bank of England once called it the NICE
decade
(No Inflation, Continuing Expansion) – a time when the economy reached the promised land of high growth and price stability.
The following
decade
turned out to be one of, first, the war on terror and, later, the worst financial and economic crisis in almost a century – a time when virtually every developed economy experienced a long and deep recession.
But, owing to the financial and economic crisis, the current
decade
will be remembered as the
decade
of public debt, and in some countries or regions, maybe even the
decade
of permanent fiscal derailment if nothing is done.
Doing enough would require reducing annual budget deficits by 0.5% of GDP every year during the coming
decade
just to improve the sustainability of government debt on average.
Change in the global economy, from a
decade
of high structural growth to a long period of low growth, is playing a major role as well.
Welcome to the BAD (Big Annual Deficits)
decade
of public debt.
This finding is supported by a recent OECD study, which revealed that over the last
decade
there has been no “appreciable improvement” in student achievement in the rich countries that invest most in technology for education.
It may take another
decade
or two for politicians to understand this, but in the end they will understand.
Such central-bank policies, together with Basel III, mean that financial repression will likely define the economic landscape for at least another
decade.
In short, over the last
decade
and a half, the Fed has gone well beyond a powerful disinflation in setting its policy interest rate.
Research I did with Gylfi Zoega a
decade
ago confirmed that cuts in taxes on labor boost employment in the short run.
Indeed, the Navarro-Ross analysis attributes fully 73% of the growth-inducing revenue windfall of Trumponomics to a massive improvement in the overall trade balance over the next
decade.
Indeed, global fertility will fall to the replacement rate in a little more than a
decade.
But, with birth rates declining there, too, current trends suggest that its population will probably stabilize at 1.55 billion in the early 2050’s, a full
decade
ahead of – and 170 million people below – the UN’s forecast.
MGI finds that global flows of goods, services, capital, people, and data over the past
decade
have boosted world GDP by around 10% above where it otherwise would have been.
Besides its obvious benefits to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s retrograde government, this will deftly weaken the South Caucasus’s links with the West, which the US and Europe have spent a
decade
fostering.
But that does not explain why, for example, the National Front has surged from 10% in opinion polls a
decade
ago to nearly 30% now.
Global Health Solidarity at a CrossroadsKIGALI – A
decade
ago, the global community stood together to declare that where people live should not determine whether they live or die when confronted by the scourge of AIDS, tuberculosis, or malaria.
Our choice could not be clearer: either we resolve to answer the call of history and provide the Global Fund with the resources that it needs, or we allow political lassitude to undermine a
decade
of progress and consign untold thousands to preventable deaths.
Investing now, on the other hand, would pay off in the long term: just $6 billion more per year for the AIDS response today would save more than $40 billion in averted treatment costs alone over the next
decade.
Moreover, plentiful gas supplies from Myanmar and Central Asia will provide China with sufficient supplies of energy for at least a
decade.
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