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By that time, Uruguay had slipped to number 43 on the list of the world's richest countries.
While the packed parliament speculated nervously, Mazowiecki slipped out of a side entrance to get some fresh air in nearby Ujazdowski Park in central Warsaw.
As a result, annual growth in the 18-country eurozone slipped to just 0.4% in the first half of 2014.
Over time, of course, the dollar has always slipped -- it started at DM/$ 4 after the war and it is only a question of time until it gets to DM/$ 1.
Indeed, among the World Bank’s six “Governance Indicators,” China’s scores on the “Control of Corruption” index have actually slipped in recent years, from -0.20 in 1998 to -0.40 in 2002 and -0.69 in 2005.
Both UKIP and its charismatic leader, Nigel Farage, have slipped in opinion polls and have struggled to get attention.
But, in the three years since my earlier assessment, Brazil’s performance has slipped: annual economic growth has slowed from 7.5% in 2010 to 1% last year, with a 3.5% rate expected in 2013.
Perhaps the buy-on-dips confidence index has slipped lately because of negative news concerning credit markets, notably the US sub-prime mortgage market, which has increased anxiety about the fundamental soundness of the economy.
When Monte dei Paschi di Siena – Italy’s third-largest bank – revealed that it faced losses of up to €720 million ($970 million) from complex derivatives deals carried out in 2006-2009, support for Bersani’s coalition slipped, owing to the PD’s long-standing ties to the bank.
Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, which were annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940, slipped in under the wire in 2004.
Despite a doubling of its balance sheet, to a little more than €3 trillion ($4 trillion), Europe has slipped back into recession for the second time in four years.
The Hungry BillionCOPENHAGEN – Hunger has slipped from the rich world’s consciousness.
And, although South Korea has slipped to 80th place in the IPU’s most recent rankings, the fall reflects subsequent growth in the proportion of female legislators in other countries.
And with good reason: US exports, which accounted for a record 13.7% of GDP in the fourth quarter of 2013, up from 10.6% in the first quarter of 2009, slipped back to 12.7% of GDP in mid-2015.
According to the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Index, the US slipped to fifth place in 2011-2012, from fourth place the previous year, continuing a general downward trend evident since 2005.
Strained by a collapse in commodity prices and China’s economic slowdown, the region’s growth slipped to 3.4% in 2015 – nearly 50% lower than the average rate over the previous 15 years.
In fact, even though the US remains dominant in military, political, economic, technological, and cultural terms, its global hegemony already seems to have slipped away.
At the conclusion of a recent broadcast, Radio Sofia slipped in a throwaway sentence about the fact that 190 bomb shelters in the capital built in Soviet times remain in good condition and are prepared to accept the public.
Japan slipped from 80th place in the World Economic Forum’s gender-gap rankings in 2006 to 98th in 2011, a worrying sign that a critical opportunity is being missed.
But ever since those immortal scenes of US army helicopters hovering above the abandoned US embassy in Saigon in 1975, Vietnam has mostly slipped from the world’s consciousness.
But Japan’s economy has now slipped into deflation, with consumer prices lower in March than a year ago, while real GDP is declining.
Europe has slipped back into recession without ever really recovering from the financial/sovereign-debt crisis that began in 2008.
In the process, however, they slipped into an unbalanced policy mix that now threatens their continued growth and financial stability.
But, as America slipped into a deficit position, that global system could no longer function, giving rise to what I have called the Global Minotaur phase.
But, over the same period, annual GDP growth has averaged a modest 3.5%, and productivity growth has slipped into negative territory.
US corporations have had a remarkable three-decade run, but profits have already slipped from 11.5% of national income in 2012 to 9.5% last year.
As a result, the share of tax revenue to total spending this fiscal year slipped below 50%, something unseen in Japan’s entire post-war history.
As countries like China and Brazil have slipped in their economic management, India signaled that it is a mature economy, where prudent macroeconomic decisions are taken based on technical expertise, not political whim.
The ruling classes stood by dazed and helpless as control of the state they had run for centuries slipped from their hands.
As for Chile, which slipped from 48th to 57th place between 2015 and 2016, and is now ranked 55th, it is worth noting that there is a lot of cheek-by-jowl competition at the higher end of the ranking.
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