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Almost every economist warned that Brexit would have serious consequences, from the immediate shock – and, indeed, the pound has already
dropped
to a 31-year low – to longer-term trade challenges.
The cost of complexity and targeting has dropped, even as the demand for return on assets has increased.
The number of new HIV/AIDS infections has
dropped
by 40%.
In the United States, for example, newsroom employment has
dropped
nearly one-quarter in less than ten years, while enrollment in top journalism schools has tapered off more recently.
During that period, the consumption share for the bottom 80% of earners
dropped
from 47% to 39%.
For its part, the Bundesbank was considering opening an account to finance trade with Tehran, so that private German banks would not be forced to comply with the whims of an American president; but it
dropped
the idea fairly quickly and without much explanation.
By 2013 – the last year for which we have comprehensive data – that share had
dropped
to below 11%.
Yet when UNICEF announced, in September of last year, that the number of children dying each year from poverty-related causes had
dropped
by one million, as compared to two years earlier, the story got very little media attention.
At the insistence of the United States, an earlier reference by the G-20 to a definite date for completing the Doha Round was
dropped.
It may be rooted in the experience of October 19, 1987, when the stock market
dropped
by just over 20% in a single day.
Meanwhile, global growth in real wages, which slowed dramatically in 2008, is expected to have
dropped
even further in 2009, despite signs of a possible economic recovery.
Many more have simply become discouraged and
dropped
out of the labor force entirely: not at school, not at work, and not looking for work.
As a result, OPEC’s share of world oil exports
dropped
sharply in the twelve years following the embargo of 1973-1974.
Worldwide, HIV incidence has fallen by one-third, and the cost of HIV drugs has
dropped
more than 99%.
And TB mortality has
dropped
more than 40%.
A less likely but more damaging scenario is that all the money
dropped
on the economy by US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will eventually stoke a bout of serious inflation.
Today, despite many more people living in harm’s way, the toll has
dropped
by more than 95%.
While preliminary estimates are often revised – for example, US first-quarter economic growth in 2012 was initially put at 2.2%, but
dropped
to 1.9% in subsequent estimates – US and German data are widely considered trustworthy.
Nonetheless, by 2013, Putin’s approval ratings
dropped
to record lows – even lower than today’s levels.
Indeed, just in the last ten years, Russia’s population has
dropped
by 9.5 million, despite the many thousands of Russians returning from former Soviet republics.
In China, renewables’ share in energy production
dropped
from 40% in 1971 to 11% today; in 2035, it will likely be just 9%.
Microsoft, at least, belatedly
dropped
its support after recognizing that the law would allow the US government to force any Internet business to hand over information about its users’ online activities.
Due to technology, the individual demand on the planet has already
dropped
35% over the past half-century, and the collective requirement will reach its upper limit before 2020 way below any overdraft.
The results were stark: reported nominal GDP growth rate for China’s 31 provinces
dropped
from 13.8% in the third quarter of 2017 to 4.3% in the fourth quarter, even though China’s overall GDP has remained consistent.
And if growth decelerates further – the annual rate has already
dropped
from 10% to 7.5% – social unrest may increase.
Moreover, annual consumer and producer inflation
dropped
to 1.5% and -3.3%, respectively, last December, owing partly to the sharp decline in world oil prices.
That, together with two generations in which birth rates across Europe have
dropped
well below the two-children-per-couple replacement rate, and what the European Commission describes as “spectacular” increases in longevity, means that by 2050, instead of four workers supporting each retiree, there will be only two.
Uncertainty Shifts to ChinaNow that the dollar has
dropped
43% from its high against the euro, the process of global financial rebalancing is seriously underway.
(The rape charge, for some unclear reason, had already been dropped.)
The last set of international development targets, the Millennium Development Goals, certainly brought about important progress; the number of children who died before reaching their fifth birthday
dropped
from ten million in 2000, when the MDGs were adopted, to 5.9 million in 2015.
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