This transfer has dramatically increased over the past two decades.

But Japan s agriculture sector has declined over the last two decades.

Another has to do with its land activists that have been criminalized over the past two decades.

There should also be some understanding for what Russia and the Russian people have gone through over the past two decades.

ZURICH Over the last two decades, inflation targeting has become the predominant monetary policy framework.

Indeed, the last two decades have proved dismal for the practice of the dismal science.

Of course, there is still the euro, Europe s only great political success over the last two decades. But now even that is coming into question, thanks to Germany.

Over the last two decades, however, our hopes political, social, and economic have been repeatedly dashed.

Of course, there is still the euro, Europe s only great political success over the last two decades.

The past two decades also have seen the world begin to reach its ecological limits.

It will be along time before the Dear Leader will be able to convince his followers that a stock market, with its demand for corporatization and even privatisation, is at all connected to the primary stage of juche.

The policies that transformed in China over the last two decades are unlikely to work in North Korea.

Over the last two decades, the world grew accustomed to US led international coalitions for war in the Middle East.

Amnesty s estimates of the number detained over the past two decades range from 8,000 to 20,000.

Over the two last decades, masses of Indians and Chinese have closed the gap (in relative terms) with the rich world.

Indeed, empirical research has shown that, throughout history, as far back as the Standard Oil case in the early 20th century, most instances of alleged predatory pricing have in fact been cases of superior efficiency.

Perhaps the most remarkable trend in global macroeconomics over the past two decades has been the stunning drop in the volatility of economic growth.

The world is passing through the greatest economic crisis in decades.

Despite the region s overall economic growth over the past two decades, life for many Roma is worse now than ever.

That was two decades before the first Opium War.

Last year s protests were the largest and most widespread in Tibet for decades.

Over the last two decades, Eastern Europe has undertaken wide ranging reforms and embraced global financial integration.

But the alternative could be worse a populist backlash that destroys much of what Mexico has achieved over the last two decades.

The road to pan European regulation over the last two decades has been winding and rocky.

During the last two decades, this number was only 145 million metric tons per year.

In the past two years, everything has changed for the better.

Fifty two children have died in the past one and half years.

Moreover, China s fiscal position is one of the best in the world. Government deficits rarely exceeded 3 of GDP in past decades, and there were surpluses in recent years.

Leblanc influenced his work for the following two decades.

In recent decades, unfettered capitalism has produced significant mutations worldwide.

Over the past two decades, high unemployment has transformed Europe in general and Germany in particular into a sociological time bomb.

For the last two decades, Chinese leaders have been diligently trying to build a new edifice in order to gain some of that missing respect.

First and foremost is economic growth, which for the past few years indeed, for the past two decades has been dismal.

A lot has been written about refugees in the last two years.

I've had very difficult times in this two years.

Iran under Ahmadinejad is facing its worst economic crisis in decades.

So, too, did the fraction of that compensation that is tied to a company's stock price, to the point where the fraction related to long term performance is quite small.

Over the last decade and a half, executive compensation in America soared.

The international monetary and financial system has witnessed tremendous change over the recent decades.

But, in the last two decades, the story of the Somali nomad has become far less romantic and far more complex.

Over the last two decades a period when globalization opened up the world financial system private capital flows have contributed more to developing economies growth than has ODA.

Brazil s unemployment rate, for example, is at lows not seen for decades.

Over the past three decades, the US has been able to grow at an average annual rate of around 2.5 .

Over the last two decades Europe experienced a dramatic expansion of financial markets at the expense of its traditional system of financing based on close relationships between large banks and established firms.

The past two decades have shown that politically correct decisions do not produce the right results, even in the long run.