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The country had a total population of 26.8 million, and now nearly 13% of them are displaced; many may never return.
Japan’s automobile exports to China fell 44.5%, and China’s imports from Japan fell nearly 10% – all in just one month.
Evidence suggests that bias is endemic in nearly every scientific field, and that institutional discrimination is still crippling careers and impeding scientific innovation.
After all, even after nearly two decades of “recession,” per-capita income in Japan is more than $40,000 (at market exchange rates).
A high-level German diplomat reportedly dismissed Spain’s 6.5-7% interest rates recently, on the grounds that Spain borrowed at nearly the same rates in the 1990’s.
After a period of massive expansion during which the financial services sector nearly doubled in size, some retrenchment is natural and normal.
Now Germany is practically at full employment, but wages are not increasing at much more than 2% – far lower than the 5% rate that prevailed when Germany last had such low unemployment (below 4%), nearly 30 years ago.
Nearly two thirds of those troops – some 30,000 of them – are from EU nations.
We have spent nearly 8bn euros in reconstruction and humanitarian assistance in the region since 1991;EU financial assistance to the region during those years amounts to 17bn euros.
This year, the European Commission is spending nearly 600m euros rebuilding lives in Kosovo and Bosnia, backing brave and newly elected leaders in Croatia, supporting reform in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (fYROM) and Albania.
When Serbia’s new leaders look around, indeed, they can see real progress in the region: in Croatia, which has blazed a democratic trail since elections earlier this year; in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, which has nearly concluded negotiations with the EU for a Stabilization and Association Agreement, the first country to do so; in Albania, which is persevering with political and economic reforms; and in Bosnia, where refugee return has accelerated.
Nearly every observer forecasts that this will continue over the coming years.
The British have nearly the opposite perspective.
Over the course of Reagan’s two terms in office, the US budget deficit as a share of GDP rose to nearly double what it had been under the two preceding administrations, and the national debt increased by hundreds of billions of dollars more than it otherwise would have.
Nearly two decades after the demise of the Soviet empire, what stands out is a prevailing sense of lost opportunities.
But, after more than three decades of the one-child policy, retirees cannot reasonably expect nearly as much support, and China lacks a strong pension system to pick up the slack.
PORTSMOUTH – Nearly 30 years have passed since the nuclear accident at Chernobyl, and the scientific community is still arguing about the impact radiation is having on the ecosystem surrounding the reactor.
We studied animals in the nearly 2,200-square-kilometer (850 square miles) sector of the exclusion zone in Belarus called the “Polessye State Radioecological Reserve.”
Even though radiation levels dropped by a factor of nearly 100 in the months after the accident, the area is still judged unfit for human habitation.
Some might expect that, nearly 30 years later, the area around the reactor remains a wasteland, sparsely populated by genetically damaged animals exposed to chronic radiation across multiple generations.
The US authorities have said nothing about Al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein’s nearly two-year detention in Egypt.
From November 2008 to November 2014, successive QE programs added $3.6 trillion to the Fed’s balance sheet, nearly 25% more than the $2.9 trillion expansion of nominal GDP over the same period.
But with federal debt held by the public nearly doubling between 2008 and 2017 – from 39% to 76% of GDP – and likely to rise further in the years ahead, what is inconsequential today could take on considerably greater importance in an interest-rate environment that lacks the QE subsidy to Treasury financing.
Unlike Bernanke, I fear there is good reason to worry that the next experiment may not work out nearly as well.
The Federal Reserve Board comprises seven governors; but, for most of its history, the Board has operated in the shadow of its chairmen, three of whom (Marriner Eccles, William McChesney Martin, and, most recently, Alan Greenspan) served for nearly 20 years.
While optimists predict that these innovations will usher in an era of unprecedented abundance, less sanguine analysts estimate that nearly half of all jobs currently performed by humans are vulnerable to replacement by robots and increasingly sophisticated software.
To the Jobless EconomySUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA – Nearly all economic forecasts agree that high unemployment in much of the developed world will most likely persist for years to come.
This is not far-fetched science-fiction technology, but rather a simple extrapolation of the expert systems and specialized algorithms that currently land jet airplanes, trade autonomously on Wall Street, or beat nearly any human being at chess.
That leads to lower prices for the goods and services produced, which in turn leaves consumers with more money to spend on other things, boosting demand – and employment – across nearly all industries.
In OECD countries, people in the top 10% of the income distribution earn around ten times more than people in the bottom 10% – up from seven times more nearly 30 years ago.
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