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That means that the world might have to wait, say, until December 2051 to reach the income and prosperity level that it would otherwise have achieved the
preceding
January.
The
preceding
phase envisages only providing the existing AU force with extra logistical support from non-African countries, such as engineers from China.
Computer hackers attacked Georgian government Web sites in the weeks
preceding
the outbreak of armed conflict.
In 2008, demand was also depressed by the huge increases in inequality that had occurred over the
preceding
quarter-century.
To this end, the Allies sought an alternative to the balance-of-power politics that had wreaked such havoc in the
preceding
five decades.
In the months
preceding
the election, the mainstream media, pundits, and pollsters kept repeating that Trump had an extremely narrow path to victory.
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.
Real interest rates for ten-year US Treasuries – which in the 1970s had remained largely under 2%, and temporarily even reached negative terrain – suddenly shot up to about 7% in 1982, and during Reagan’s two terms in office they were about three times as high as under the two
preceding
administrations.
For now, it is promising to learn that the proposed law would pertain only to the period
preceding
elections – a delicate moment in the public life of a democracy.
But the best analogy for Tunisia today is Spain in the years
preceding
and following the death of Francisco Franco.
The immediate answer is that the boom
preceding
the global financial crisis of 2008 left advanced economies with an overhang of growth-inhibiting debt.
There are some eerie resemblances with the financial conditions that prevailed in the US in the years
preceding
the crash of 2008.
They note that, in general, debt levels and leverage rose during the decade
preceding
these crises, propelling increases in asset prices for a long time.
But financial markets demonstrated their shortsightedness in the years
preceding
the crisis, and are doing so once again, by applying pressure for spending cuts, even if that implies reducing badly needed public investments.
Growth in real GDP appears to have averaged close to 4% in the second half of 2013, nearly double the 2.2% pace of the
preceding
four years.
Nonetheless, 20-25% of households faced flat or falling disposable incomes from 2005 to 2014, compared to less than 2% in the
preceding
12 years.
Besides, as even the EU Commission recognizes, Irish inflation is coming down, from 5.6% in the
preceding
year to 4.6% at the end of 2000.
In the six years
preceding
the stock market peak in 1990, Japan’s output grew by more than 30%; in the six years from 1992 to 1998, by less than 5%.
Credit rating agencies, which play an important role in modern capital markets, completely failed in the years
preceding
the financial crisis.
In other words, unlike the
preceding
wave of digital technology, which motivated firms to gain access to and deploy underutilized pools of valuable labor around the world, the driving force in this round is cost reduction via the replacement of labor.
More than 250 tests were conducted in the 16 months following the aborted attempt to put the nuclear genie back in its bottle – more explosions than in the 16
preceding
years.
The
preceding
election campaign had foreshadowed that outcome.
True, despite certain contested events in the days
preceding
the Socialist run-off, the level of brutishness among candidates was limited.
In contrast to the United States and Europe, where the growth outlook looked weak at best, emerging markets were expected to sustain their strong performance from the decade
preceding
the global financial crisis, and thus become the engine of the global economy.
More cereals were produced annually in the last quarter of the twentieth century than in any
preceding
period, and more grain will be harvested this year than at any time in history.
According to the Egyptian Centre for Economic and Social Rights, there were five times more street protests in Egypt in 2016 than there were, on average, in the years
preceding
the Arab Spring.
But, like the United States’ effort to expand home ownership in the years
preceding
the 2008 crisis, Chinese policies went too far, creating a financially unsustainable situation that implied the possibility of major price declines and dislocations.
Anarchy is setting in now: it is
preceding
– and precipitating – the regime’s eventual fall.
A major reason has been sharply decelerating growth in global trade, which the World Trade Organization expects to grow by 1.7% this year – far below the 6.7% average in the decade
preceding
the 2008 crisis.
But the
preceding
savagery of Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian ethnic cleansing, in that first phase of the Balkan tragedy, and the lily-livered impotence of the EU, had been so shocking and so shameful for the Europeans, that when they saw President Slobodan Milosevic embarking on an even more outrageous process of ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, with the prospective death or displacement of tens or hundreds of thousands of Albanian Kosovars, they were compelled, almost willy nilly, to intervene more forcefully this time round.
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