Sentences with phrase «decades in both absolute terms»

The debt pile, he said, has been growing for three decades in both absolute terms and when compared to the size of the economy — and about $ 1.5 trillion of it currently consists of mortgage debt.

The debt pile has been growing for three decades in both absolute terms and when compared to the size of the economy.

Not exact matches

While most international peers have seen their BERD rise for much of the past decade, Canada's BERD has been steadily dropping — both in absolute terms and as a share of GDP.

Economists at TD issued a report on Tuesday revealing that household debt has increased across all age groups during the last decade, both in absolute terms and relative to income.

Although this might still be regarded as quite high in absolute terms, it is towards the lower end of the range in which it has fluctuated in the past two decades.

At the end of the United Nations Development Decade, almost all of the Third World countries had met their growth targets in terms of increased Gross National Product, but despite more than 35 years of «development,» absolute poverty was on the increase.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

The spread among the states has remained wide and grown in absolute terms over the past several decades.

The analysis shows income inequality has grown in most advanced economies represented in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development over the past three decades, but the United States and Canada are near the top in terms of growth and in absolute terms.

Yet they turn around and find absolute certainty that they've found a long - term trend in solar irradiance, where our direct measurements span only a couple of decades, barely more than two full 11 - year cycles, and we're up against serious challenges on inter-satellite calibration.

The northern - hemisphere anomaly: — is larger in absolute terms; — is much larger in relative terms; — has had a very clear trend for two full decades; and — this trend has clearly accelerated in the last five years.

That is the path the world has been on for at least the past two decades and today we are farther away from our emission objectives, in absolute terms, than we were 20 years ago.

National greenhouse gas emissions will peak between 2020 and 2025, plateau for approximately a decade, and decline in absolute terms thereafter under South Africa's plan, known as an Intended National Determined Contribution or INDC.

This would correspond to a 25-fold increase in absolute terms of SHC technology deployment in the next four decades.

If we may assume that the rate of increase vs. temperature currently observed is similar for longer - term influences (over decades) on absolute CO2 levels, then the observed 1959 - 2004 temperature increase of about 0.6 °C has added about 1.3 ppmv of the 60 ppmv measured in the same period.