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For most of the twentieth century, large chunks of the world remained desperately poor for one or more of four related reasons: (1) criminal misgovernment; (2) lack of the machines to do anything useful and productive in the world economy besides subsistence agriculture and unskilled service work; (3) lack of the public education system needed to give people the literacy and the skills to operate the machines; and (4) barriers (legal and physical) that kept people where demand was low from selling the products of their work where demand was high.
But over the course of the late twentieth century, these four causes of desperate poverty have largely fallen away.
For all these reasons, the golden age of stability and predictability that was the third quarter of the twentieth century seemed to have abruptly drawn to a close, to be succeeded by a period of greatly heightened uncertainty.
Each year, these vaccines alone saved more people than world peace would have saved in the twentieth century.
That is less than one-third the 6.3% average during the final three decades of the twentieth century.
Indeed, Europe should take a lesson from the wars of the twentieth century and do away with national armies altogether.
The UN began, in 1945, as a vision shared by the leaders of the victorious Allies, who were determined to ensure that the second half of the twentieth century did not play out like the first half.
During the twentieth century, the nation recorded its highest percentage of foreign-born residents in 1910 – 14.7% of the population.
Global Conflict in a New Age of ExtremesTEL AVIV – The late historian Eric Hobsbawm described the twentieth century as the “age of extremes,” in which state socialism led to the gulag; liberal capitalism led to cyclical depressions; and nationalism led to two world wars.
Today, like in the twentieth century, nationalism is tearing societies apart and dividing erstwhile allies, by fueling antagonism toward the “other” and justifying physical and legal protectionist barriers.
Among other things, massive desertification in the Middle East and Africa would bring famines that dwarf those of the twentieth century in scale.
The challenges facing the world today would have been unimaginable in the twentieth century.
But, in the twentieth century, with greater security of conditions and continuous economic growth, it became normal for individuals, companies, and governments to borrow in anticipation of earnings – to spend money they did not have, but that they expected to have.
French Jews are rediscovering the dual trauma that they experienced during the twentieth century: the death-camp deportations of World War II and their flight from Algeria following its independence in 1962.
This history of moderation continued unabated through the twentieth century, embraced by both traditionalists and modernists.
For example, until the second half of the twentieth century, today’s eurozone members regularly slaughtered each other on centuries of battlefields.
It is worth remembering that in the twentieth century, following two world wars, peace was the top priority, along with – or even before – prosperity.
But for the rest of the twentieth century, the backlash cycle seemed to have stopped.
There is much that the world can and must learn now from the lowest point of the twentieth century.
For all these differences of opinion, we are unanimous in the belief that, if the Principles of Equality are to be effective in our age, they have to go well beyond the negative anti-discrimination model that was adopted in the US and Europe in the second half of the twentieth century.
The site offers a stark reminder that humans’ simple, physical presence in a habitat is more damaging than one of the twentieth century’s worst environmental catastrophes.
The emergence of the nation-state in the eighteenth century, and the extreme level of barbarism reached in the twentieth century, may have created the impression that an ethical politics was an unrealizable dream, or that it was a dream growing ever more distant as it receded into the future.
The Kim cult owes something to Stalinism, something to messianic Christianity, something to Confucian ancestor worship, something to indigenous shamanism, and something to the emperor worship of the Japanese, who ruled Korea in the first half of the twentieth century.
In the twentieth century, he says, per capita income in the United States doubled about every 25-30 years.
If Tibetan Buddhism was severely damaged, Chinese Communism has barely survived the ravages of the twentieth century, either.
Neither the industrializing countries of the nineteenth century nor the successful Asian catch-up economies of the late twentieth century ever experienced anything close to such rates of population growth.
During the twentieth century, Europe was America’s partner of first resort.
Making matters worse, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, much of the Muslim world was subjugated by European imperial powers.
While sea level was nearly constant for centuries after the Middle Ages, it rose at an average rate of almost two centimeters per decade during the twentieth century.
With so many international problems today, diplomacy does need to combine the old-fashioned statecraft of the twentieth century with the new tools that budding technologies have provided.
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