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And, when Iraq lurched through months of political uncertainty as a new government was formed in 2010, Vice President Joseph Biden was able to make an enormous contribution, owing to his six visits to the country during the
preceding
year.
For the
preceding
quarter-century, Indians had watched helplessly as their attempts at peace-making with their belligerent, military-dominated neighbor had collapsed repeatedly, thanks to terrorist attacks from Pakistan that the government in Islamabad seemed unable or unwilling to prevent.
The post-2008 slump merely exposed the unsoundness of the
preceding
boom; the mediocrity of the recovery reflects the mediocrity of previous prospects, coolly considered.
For decades after independence – when Britain left the subcontinent one of the poorest and most ravaged regions on earth, with an effective growth rate of 0% over the
preceding
two centuries – India was seen as an impoverished land of destitute people, desperately in need of international handouts.
In fact, with Japan’s real annual GDP growth slipping to 0.6% since Shinzo Abe was elected Prime Minister in late 2012 – one-third slower than the sluggish 0.9% average annual rate over the
preceding
22 lost years (1991 to 2012) – the so-called maximum stimulus of “Abenomics” has been an abject failure.
If they did, children would do nothing all year but compare amended articles from one treaty with original articles from a
preceding
treaty or again, with amended articles from an even older treaty.
In the years
preceding
the financial crisis, increasing globalization and technological advances made it much easier for central banks to deliver both solid growth and low inflation.
But, from 2015 to 2017, foreign direct investment in Russia amounted to less than 2% of GDP per year, on average – almost half what it had been in the
preceding
years – reflecting not just falling investment, but also reduced technology imports.
Unfortunately, under the
preceding
years of IMF programs, the market economy with high interest rates, illegitimate privatization, poor corporate governance, and capital-market liberalization provided only incentives for asset stripping.
In the period
preceding
the signing, however, French foreign minister Michel Barnier chastised him for lacking a “European reflex”.
The growth of the lower middle class – which had swelled by tens of millions of people in the
preceding
years – was halted, and consumer debt exploded.
Loss of trust probably has multiple causes, including analytical failure: central banks, regulators, market participants, rating agencies, and economists almost all failed to detect rising systemic risk in the years
preceding
the current crisis, much less to take appropriate corrective action.
The rate of job growth between 2000 and 2007 slowed to only half its level in the three
preceding
decades.
In the years
preceding
August 1914, until the assassination of the archduke, the global economy performed relatively well: trade expanded worldwide, financial markets seemed healthy, and the business community shrugged off political problems as either temporary or irrelevant.
Similarly, GDP growth began to pick up in the spring of 2014, running above the rate of the
preceding
three years.
Given
preceding
discussions, the most plausible such something was the tariff.
During the ten years
preceding
the peak of the bubble in 2007, about four million jobs were lost in the US manufacturing sector, whose share in total employment fell from more than 17% to 12%.
The West and international institutions also played a pervasive role by promoting the so-called Washington Consensus that defined economic orthodoxy in the decade
preceding
Asia’s crisis, which has continued ever since.
The list of eligible candidates for the Ibrahim Prize begins with those who were democratically elected and left office constitutionally within the
preceding
three years.
Furthermore, per capita EU productivity, which had been converging on the US level for 20 years up to 1995, when Europe was only about 5% below the US, lost ten percentage points in relative terms in the decade
preceding
the eurozone crisis.
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.
In the five years
preceding
the 2008-2009 crisis, the Indian economy grew at an average rate of nearly 9% annually.
Blindsided by the crisis of 2007-2008, the Fed has compounded its original misdiagnosis of the problem by repeatedly doubling down on tactical responses, with two rounds of QE
preceding
the current, open-ended iteration.
Moreover, economic growth is necessary to keep the promise – enormously important to individual Americans – that each generation will have the opportunity to become more prosperous than the
preceding
one, the popular term for which is “the American dream.”
Meaningful reforms in Ukraine can still succeed, and more has been achieved in the last two years than was accomplished in the
preceding
20.
Similarly, more than 100 bills for federal deposit insurance had been proposed in the
preceding
50 years.
The sample survey documented an extra 100,000 Iraqi civilian deaths compared to the death rate in the
preceding
year, when Saddam Hussein was still in power – and this estimate did not even count excess deaths in Falluja, which was deemed too dangerous to include.
Since 1995 or so, however, the productivity growth trend underlying the US economy has been quite rapid: not 0.7% per year--the average during the
preceding
25 years--but 2% or 3%, perhaps even more.
We would still have to pay by the end of the century, only now we would also have made ourselves poorer in the 90 years
preceding
it.
During the referendum campaign in France
preceding
the vote on the draft EU Constitutional Treaty, the proposed directive was vilified as undermining the rights of labor, symbolized by that dreaded bogeyman, the “Polish plumber.”
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