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But over the next decade, between 1999 and 2009, the number plummeted to 12 million.
According to recent polls, his backing from women plummeted from 39% to 29% over the course of a couple of days.
As repayment rates plummeted, micro-lending ground to a halt.
Consumption plummeted, taking down retail sales with it, and, after a short lag, employment and investment as well.
The president’s handpicked successor was assassinated, and, as if that was not enough, the value of the peso had plummeted by nearly 70%.
One of the pharmaceutical companies I met with recently showed me evidence that the use of antibiotics in treating young children in Iceland has plummeted since 2011, owing to vaccinations against pneumococcal infections.
Investment in infrastructure was shifting from growth-enhancing projects, such as inter-city highways, to less productive shopping malls in second- and third-tier cities.Productivity plummeted in SOEs, whose privileged access to financing crowded out private-sector investment.
Imports plummeted by nearly 50% in the year after devaluation, as consumers were forced to buy Russian-made food, clothes, and other goods.
In South Africa and in Sweden, more people believe extreme poverty has doubled than believe – correctly – that it has plummeted.
When it was announced that the initiative had indeed passed, no one was surprised, and the Mexican peso plummeted against the dollar.
Today, domestic investment has plummeted, exports are languishing, and GDP growth is down to around 4.5% per year.
After the global financial crisis erupted in 2008, interest rates plummeted, fueling private-sector credit booms in many of the largest emerging markets, including Brazil, India, Indonesia, and Turkey.
When the one-child policy was implemented in 1979 – in an effort to alleviate social, economic, and environmental pressures following the population boom in the 1950’s and 1960’s – the fertility rate plummeted, from three children per household in 1970 to 1.2 in 1982.
But for many emerging markets, external conditions began to worsen around 2012, when China’s growth slowed, commodity prices plummeted, and capital flows dried up – developments that sparked a spate of currency crashes spanning nearly every region.
After the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, oil prices plummeted in anticipation of economic stagnation, only to recover substantially as vigorous growth continued in emerging markets.
For example, many automobile manufacturers ignored the shift toward electric and hybrid vehicles – though sales were increasing at a rate of more than 50% annually – until their sales of conventional cars plummeted in key markets.
And yet the money has not followed; the industry’s revenues and margins have both plummeted.
America's standing plummeted in Islamic countries, whose support is needed to help track the flow of terrorists, tainted money, and dangerous weapons.
Moreover, the current-account surplus plummeted from more than 10% of GDP in 2007 to 2.8% in 2011, reflecting China’s decreasing reliance on exports to drive economic growth.
After Japan’s bubble burst, annual GDP growth, which averaged 5.8% in the four years preceding the bust, plummeted to 0.9% for the next four years.
Economic growth plummeted from 13% in 1936 to 6% in 1937, and GDP shrank 4.5% in 1938, while unemployment rose from 14% to roughly 20%.
More damaging, prices for real estate and financial assets plummeted, but the liabilities remained – a major shock for businesses and the financial sector.
As a result of this bonanza, US domestic energy prices have plummeted.
This institutional architecture has facilitated considerable progress in many of these areas; for example, the under-five mortality rate has plummeted by 49% since 1990.
But now, with oil prices down sharply, Russia’s export revenue has plummeted by 30% this year, and state funds have become very scarce.
Wages of male high school graduates have plummeted by some 19% in the period studied by Case and Deaton.
At its peak of 10.1% of GDP in 2007, the surplus was larger than Germany’s; by the end of 2013, it had plummeted to 2% of GDP.
The big surprise here is not that central banks acted decisively and boldly when financial markets froze and economic activity plummeted.
The demand for a new constitution emulating Nigeria’s First Republic of the early 1960’s, when the country was a federation of powerful regions enjoying a large measure of fiscal autonomy, grew over the years as Nigeria’s economy plummeted.
Russian military procurement, it claims, has plummeted.
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