The country has been transformed profoundly in the recent decades.

In recent decades, that strategy has proved remarkably successful.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

The second mutation stems from excessive shareholder dominance, which has been on the rise for more than three decades.

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

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

The author discussed some of the controversial population and migration policies adopted by the government in the past decades.

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

In the 1960 s, France decided to pull out of the NATO integrated command and asked NATO forces to leave its territory.

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

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.

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

Consider just a few of the divisions that have come up among NATO allies over the past decades.

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.