Decade
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Indeed, most Americans today are worse off than they were a
decade
ago, with almost all the gains from economic growth going to the very top of the income and wealth distribution.
According to the City Department of Planning’s most recent estimates (from June 2009), the city attracted 647,000 immigrants over the last decade, mainly from Latin America and Asia.
Judging by these metrics, the world is entering the next
decade
in a kind of bipolar state, strongly dominated by the US and China.
So, to build a credible nuclear arsenal, Iran would need a
decade
or longer.
One contributing factor was the bolsa familia (family grant), now a
decade
old.
Later that decade, efforts by France, Germany, and the UK to confer on monetary policy failed miserably.
Optimists say that solar energy will become economical without subsidies later this decade, while pessimists put the break-even point in the 2020s.
As a result, the eurozone as a whole will produce a surplus close to $260 billion this year, which represents a new global imbalance that is more directly comparable to China’s in the past
decade.
Over the past decade, the nuclear industry has attempted to capture global leaders’ attention with a promotional campaign centered around the notion of a “nuclear renaissance.”
The 34 reactors that started up over the last
decade
had a mean construction time of nearly ten years, but contributed just 26 GW – one-third of what solar and wind added in one year.
First, US interventions, which have cost the country trillions of dollars and thousands of lives over the past decade, have consistently destabilized the Middle East, while causing massive suffering in the affected countries.
During the past decade, the US and its allies have tried to weaken, and then, starting in 2011, to topple President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, mainly in a proxy war to undermine Iranian influence in Syria.
Just as Putin’s gross mismanagement of the economy has led even the economics minister to predict stagnation for the rest of this decade, his geopolitical nostalgia is poised to saddle Russians with the same dysfunctional empire that impoverished them under the Soviets.
This pattern, likely to continue into the next decade, raises important questions.
A
decade
ago, when the first Nord Stream pipeline deal was announced, Poland’s then-foreign minister, Radek Sikorski, compared the venture to the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (the non-aggression treaty between Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Union).
Within the developing economies, more than four fifths of those that had closed trading regimes in the 1970s experienced serious economic crises a
decade
later.
Despite the recent stock market jitters, the constellation of institutional and political factors for this giant experiment to succeed has never been so favorable, as exemplified by the spread of democracy and the rule of law in this
decade.
Economically, Sub-Saharan Africa has experienced a
decade
of 5-6% average annual GDP growth.
Anxious to distance himself from the legacy of the previous Republican administration, he never mentions former President George W. Bush and avoids mention of the two wars of the last
decade.
With budget deficits that are projected to be 5% of GDP by the end of the coming decade, and a debt/GDP ratio that has roughly doubled in the past five years and is continuing to grow, the real interest rate on Treasuries should be significantly higher than it was in the past.
The roots of the current unrest extend back more than a decade, to former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s first electoral victory in 2001.
Hungary's Open SecretBUDAPEST: Only a
decade
ago, with its "goulash socialism" Hungary seemed the most prosperous communist economy.
More broadly, as China has declared unconditional Indian troop withdrawal to be a “prerequisite” for ending the standoff, India, facing recurrent Chinese incursions over the last decade, has insisted that border peace is a “prerequisite” for developing bilateral ties.
It has been a
decade
since the onset of the Great Recession, and yet its causes have not been properly addressed.
Often without a dependable channel for airing their grievances, hordes of laid-off workers and retired folk have filled the avenues over the past
decade
or so.
Indeed, within a mere decade, more Chinese have come to live in Africa than there are Europeans on the continent, even after many centuries of European colonial and neo-colonial rule.
Furthermore, output from Russia’s existing oil fields is projected to decline by as much as half over the next decade; as it does, access to the technologies needed to exploit harder-to-extract reserves will become increasingly important.
A comprehensive program to increase economic opportunity and reduce inequality is also needed – its goal being to remove, within the next decade, America’s distinction as the advanced country with the highest inequality and the least social mobility.
Nonetheless, the participation rate over the last
decade
is comparable to average turnout in American congressional elections.
For more than a decade, China’s stunning growth has fueled a remarkable price boom that has flattered policymakers in commodity-exporting emerging markets from Russia to Argentina.
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