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But now it is also the case in the relatively well-off mature democracies, as well as among those countries that have been growing fastest.
In 2011, China’s energy consumption climbed 9.7%, reaching 3.7 billion metric tons of standard coal equivalent – the fastest growth rate since 2007.
From 1998 to 2007, Greece's annual per capita GDP growth averaged 3.8%, the second fastest in Western Europe, behind only Ireland.
Kenya’s Resource ChallengeOXFORD – Kenya has been exporting energy for years – in the form of some of the world’s fastest long-distance runners.
This played a significant role in setting the stage for the two fastest generations of global economic growth the world has ever seen.
The Czechs were first and fastest at comprehensive privatization, including a mass privatization program involving the vast majority of the population through participation in voucher auctions, a far-reaching program of restitution, and rapid liberalization for starting new private businesses.
These are all firsts, and the reason is obvious: curbing theft by government cronies is among the fastest and most effective ways to raise revenues.
And the fastest way to achieve its goals is by making education a top priority in every member state.
But, in recent years, there has been a notable shift toward diversification, with some major urban centers, like Mumbai and Bangalore, experiencing the largest and fastest shifts away from specialization.
Africa’s towns and cities have been growing at some of the world’s fastest rates, but their absolute size is so small that they can absorb only a fraction of all new workers.
It makes sense for companies to move to where dollar sales are booming, and for asset managers to put money where GDP growth measured in dollars is fastest.
This allowed western companies to stay ahead in the economic sectors with the highest profit-margins and the fastest growth.
Now they are showing a new respect for tillers of the land, realizing that the fastest way out of extreme poverty for ordinary people is to increase both farm output and crop prices.
It is worth noting that the US experienced its fastest economic growth since 1929 in the 1950s and 1960s, a time of high government expenditure on the Interstate Highway System, which was launched in 1956.
The increase in the number of female billionaires significantly outpaces that among men, with Asia registering the fastest growth in the ranks of self-made female billionaires.
Asia enjoyed the fastest real wage growth, owing largely to China and a few smaller countries such as Cambodia, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar.
His administration’s environmental policy is not carved in stone; it’s written in water, which always seeks the fastest route to the lowest point.
It is among the fastest growing regions in the world, but it is also home to the largest concentration of people living in debilitating poverty, conflict, and human misery.
And while South Korea may be getting old the fastest, it leads a closely bunched group of countries that includes Bangladesh, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
The current state of affairs is all the more depressing because global economic growth in the past four years has been the fastest since the early 1970’s.
South Korea’s working-age population is falling by 1.2% annually – the fastest decline among OECD countries.
That is, countries furthest away from the global frontier of labor productivity have seen the fastest productivity growth in services.
Employment is growing fastest in face-to-face services such as personal care.
Growth was fastest from 1870-1890, followed by large fluctuations in output.
Coal is the world’s fastest growing fossil fuel, with annual production increasing by 6.4% since 2004.
This is the fastest way to revive the economy and generate employment.
Nor, following the fastest five-year period of economic growth in human history, are collapsing prices endangering the financial system, as they did during the Great Depression.
A German Glimmer in a Global BoomIn 2004, the world economy grew at a rate of 5.1%, the fastest pace in the last 28 years.
Worldwide, the competition is about “who can go green the fastest.”
The record is striking: the fastest growing countries are never the countries with the highest per capita incomes but always a subset of the lower-income countries.
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