The country has been transformed profoundly in the recent decades.

In recent decades, that strategy has proved remarkably successful.

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

This transfer has dramatically increased over the past two decades.

This is a huge contrast with the financial sector s position in the previous three decades.

That blueprint has been used throughout Asia in recent decades, most notably in China.

And, for at least three decades, matters have been getting worse.

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

Inequality appears to have been on the rise in recent decades at the international level and in most countries.

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

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

To be sure, the world has seen progress on some fronts in recent decades. Access to education for girls has improved, and some gender gaps have been reduced.

To be sure, the world has seen progress on some fronts in recent 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.

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.

American hegemony over the global economy is perhaps in its final decades.

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

Indeed, as important as their functions are, in recent decades central banks have become even more significant as a consequence of the development of financial markets.

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

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 .

The decline in Bangladesh's homegrown film industry has prompted the closure of more than a thousand cinemas in the past decade.

In the last decades of the war, both typhus and dysentery had become endemic in Germany.

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

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

Reliable statistics are not yet available, but poverty in Europe s south is increasing for the first time in decades.

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

The one certainty is that the next three decades will not mirror the last three.

For the past few decades Kenyans have been longing for change, change in government practices, change in development strategies, change in national issues.

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.

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

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

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

In recent decades, senior military officers have been transformed into powerful landlords through grants of choice agricultural lands and real estate.

In recent decades, doctors have become much more comfortable giving physical treatments to remedy psychological and social problems.

In contrast to the Great Depression, collapsing national output was in recent decades accompanied by accelerating inflation, not deflation.

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.

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

Over the past three decades, many ideas have been proposed but Saint Nazaire's approach has been radically different.

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

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.