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Less than a
decade
later, he had erected a personal autocratic regime on the ruins of a flawed new democracy.
In the coming decade, an estimated 100 million girls will be married before they reach 18.
Despite the profound – and largely unpredicted – financial and economic turmoil of the intervening decade, the intellectual influence of those whose theories suffered the most evidently remains undented.
For example, of the top 100 economists in September 2015, only 14 were absent from the much wider top 5% in 2006, and only two others had advanced more than 200 spots over the previous
decade.
The rate of renewal among the 200 most influential economists was as low as 25% – and just 16% among the top 100 – during a
decade
in which the explanatory power of prevailing economic theory had been found severely wanting.
Likewise, emerging countries – which represent more than 90% of the world’s population, three-quarters of global GDP growth over the last decade, and nearly half of total income in current dollar terms – supplied just 11 of the top 200 economists in September 2015, up from ten in December 2006.
How surprised should we be that, even after the Great Recession cast grave doubt on the rational-market theories so dominant a
decade
ago, the top tier of academic economics remains largely unchanged?
A
decade
later, Ken Kesey took his buddies, the Merry Pranksters, across the country in the other direction in their painted bus (granted, with female hangers-on).
Although growth has indeed been significantly above trend in recent years, performance over the entire
decade
was unimpressive.
Although the region’s poverty rate has decreased by 10 percentage points in the last decade, 180 million people remain below the line, more than 70 million are still indigent, and a large percentage remains just above the poverty line.
But then Paul Volcker increased interest rates in the US, the dollars went home, most countries defaulted on their debts, and the 1980’s became a “lost decade” for Latin America.
Most commentators expected a substantial difference in per capita growth to continue beyond this decade, disagreeing only about the magnitude of the emerging countries’ growth advantage.
Now we look back at a
decade
during which the American economy has grown at an average rate of 3.4% per year.
Indeed, the United States today is 9% richer than we would have dared forecast a
decade
ago, and that is true despite labor-market slack and thus the largest production shortfalls below potential output in two decades.
In America, the "new economy" has proven to be real, and there is every reason to think that growth in the next
decade
will be faster than it was in the past.
Yet today, if we look at transatlantic comparisons, Western Europe appears to be doing much better than one would expect if one were to judge from the past
decade'
s business press.
Thus, it is important to note how little - if any - ground America has gained relative to Europe in the past
decade
according to the yardstick of social welfare.
Good news notwithstanding, declaring victory at this stage (even a
decade
later) appears premature.
During the “lost decade” of the Latin American debt crisis in the 1980s, Brazil and Mexico had a significant and promising growth pickup in 1984-1985 – before serious problems in the banking sector, an unresolved external debt overhang, and several ill-advised domestic policy initiatives cut those recoveries short.
Since the global financial crisis erupted a
decade
ago, Europe has been firmly in inter-governmental mode.
While most African countries have likely experienced economic growth during the last decade, the accuracy of the data on which growth estimates are based – not to mention data on inflation, food production, education, and vaccination rates – remains far from adequate.
That is just what Africa needs to support a new
decade
of growth and development.
Over the last decade, conditions for new entrants have worsened markedly in many countries.
The resulting monetary expansion in the second half of the 1980’s fueled Japan’s massive asset-price bubble, the collapse of which seemed to lead directly to the country’s “lost decade” of stagnation.
Over the past decade, tens of millions of people across Africa have joined the middle class; our cities are expanding rapidly; and our population is the most youthful in the world.
Even the country’s proverbial inequality is beginning to shrink, albeit slowly, and lower-middle-class living standards are finally rising to where they should have been a
decade
ago.
But over the next decade, the politics of energy in the US may gradually change.
But over the next decade, the combination of markets and policies could make a big difference.
But a slowdown to 7% annual growth would still double China’s GDP over the next
decade.
Indeed, during the first
decade
after independence, the Libyan government received most of its revenue from the US and the UK, which leased territory for air bases during the Cold War.
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