Sentences with phrase «country over the past few decades»

That is, there has been a reasonably high correlation in the timing of recessions and expansions among developed countries over the past few decades.

Our publiceducation system is extraordinarily complex, and reflects the radicalchanges in this country over the past few decades.

The states various cities are responsible for many cultural shifts throughout the country over the past few decades.

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The problem, he warned, is that Canada's workforce is rapidly aging, while its companies are stuck in a low productivity gear, putting the country on track to generate only half of the annual growth in the next few decades that Canadians have come to expect over the past 50 years.

The growing recognition of the negative effects of corporate tax rates explains why Canada and other OECD countries have made it a point to reduce corporate income taxes over the past few decades:

I've had my eye on Israel for several years now, since working on my book, Sex, Bombs and Burgers, and learning that much of the country's economic success over the past few decades has been the result of a meshing between technology and the military.

Problem 1: Housing costs are rising, and this is pushing up government expenditure Over the past few decades rents and house prices have risen much more rapidly in the UK than other countries.

The work shows that socioeconomic and political pressures on honey production over the past few decades has caused a long - term reduction in the number of colonies in production in the USA, Europe and many other countries.

«It is becoming increasingly clear that the average person's fiber intake in a Western country has drastically reduced over the past few decades,» says Fredrik Bäckhed, who studies the role of the normal gut microbiota in metabolic diseases at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden and is a co-senior author of the other paper.

It lauds NASA's «spectacular results» over the past few decades, and then warns that «today, America's leadership in space is challenged by countries eager to emulate — and surpass — NASA's accomplishments.

This continues the trend of warming winters over the past few decades as the climate warms from increasing greenhouse gases, with the eastern two - thirds of the country warming the most during the winter.

In conversations about Finland's stunning success over the past decade, many education leaders look at what makes the system work so well — the high bar for entry into the teaching profession, the absence of standardized tests, the embedded professional development and support systems, to name just a few — and ask «Why can't we do this in my country?»

And we've seen plenty of countries (in Europe, for example, over the past few decades) learning to live with / recover from debt ratios of 120 % (even 140 %).

Over the past few decades she has lived, worked and taught in various cultures and countries.

Developed countries continue to produce the highest emissions on a per capita basis, but most of the growth in global emissions over the past few decades has occurred in developing countries.

What we have seen over the past few decades, is that a large number of trends that appear in Japanese society have a tendency of migrating to other countries.