Sentences with phrase «decline over the past decade»

Far from an economic powerhouse, China's economy remains a middleweight when its vast number of poor people is taken into account — the country's per capita GDP is only around US$ 4,500, 1 / 10th that of the U.S. And as a share of the economy, household incomes have actually declined over the past decade.

Figures published by the non-partisan think tank Pew Research Center estimates that annual inflows of undocumented immigrants from Mexico have steadily declined over the past decade.

«Taking into account all these factors, the index actually dropped by 0.002 to 0.473 from 0.475 in 2011, the first decline over the past decades,» he argued.

A mistake compounded by the fact that first - class mail has been in sharp decline over the past decade, which has turned package delivery into a big money loser for the U.S. postal service.

Having neglected its Asian connections, and allowed its brand to decline over the past decade and a half, Canada now has to earn its way back into the key councils of Asia.

Yet City's rise — undeniably fuelled by the petrodollars of Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al Nahyan as well as a long - term vision — has coincided with Arsenal's decline over the past decade and the Manchester club are now the team that is setting the benchmark.

«While participant numbers in many traditional team and individual sports such as golf, basketball and racket sports seem to have declined over the past decade, participant numbers in extreme sports have surged, making it a multi-million dollar industry.»

Water levels in major reservoirs have steadily declined over the past decade; some analysts project that the largest may never refill.

However, general studies has been in decline over the past decade, with A-level entries falling by 12 per cent to 40,984 in 2011.

The 4K - 5 school has seen its enrollment decline over the past decade but wants to review the program requirements before jumping in.

Teacher Autonomy Declined Over Past Decade, New Data Shows Experts: Keep «Grit» Away From Teacher Evaluations

In addition, as Fensterwald notes, «scores in science on the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) have declined over the past decade.»

What you may not know about Los Angeles: Crime in Los Angeles has declined over the past decade, particularly the number of incidents involving gangs.

Lollypop Farm's euthanasia rate has steadily declined over the past decade, and we continue to strive to reduce the number of animals who must be humanely euthanized.

We found a linear negative trend in SST of − 0.0002 per year from 1998 through 2009 showing temperatures declining over the past decade (Figure S2, p < 0.001, r2 = 0.014).

According to a Wall Street Journal article, the cost of renewable energy has rapidly declined over the past decade.

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Additionally, the number of people who report having a close confidante in their lives has been declining over the past few decades.

Chriss pegs growth in the contingent work force to structural changes in employment over the past decades, including a decline in enrollment in defined - benefit pension plans and growth in the average duration of unemployment.

While the share of sales going to women - owned businesses rose over the past five years, after having declined over the previous half decade, the actual fraction remains small.

The rise of the numbers for women - owned businesses over the past five years is cause for cheer among those who would like to see more equality of business ownership, particularly given the stagnant numbers or declines over the previous half decade.

The goal is for legal medical marijuana to bring back jobs lost over the past decades by the decline in the steel industry.

Over the past decade, as the value of the average Canadian home doubled, and tripled in some areas, rents remained stable or even declined.

However, there has been a striking decline in the important social infrastructure of local communities over the past few decades.

Indeed, a recent study suggests the number of retail gas stations has been slowly dropping over the past two decades, with a «continued lack of profitability» as the driving force behind the decline.

Over the past decade, industry tracker NPD Group has recorded an 18 % decline in canned - soup consumption at dinner and a 7 % decline at lunch.

With global soup sales declining steadily over the past half of a decade, a new study indicates that an iconic packaging format may be to blame.

«The decline in employment quality over the past two decades does not mean that we have turned into a nation of «hamburger flippers,»» Tal wrote.

But over the past decade, the show's viewership and influence have been in decline.

But like so many miners in Hazard, surrounding Perry County and throughout eastern Kentucky, Bowling was laid off, another victim of the coal industry's steady decline nationwide, especially over the past decade.

New research from North Carolina State University and the University of Colorado Boulder finds that steep declines in the use of coal for power generation over the past decade were caused largely by less expensive natural...

In terms of our transportation infrastructure, according to the most recent World Economic Forum rankings, the U.S. fell from 7th to 18th in the quality of our roads over the past decade, as our investments in this space have declined by half as a share of GDP since the 1960s.

While gun violence and homicides have generally declined over the past couple of decades, America is still a big outlier among developed nations when it comes to both.

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Over the past decade, productivity growth has declined from a post-war average of 2 % to a growth rate of just 1 % annually, with growth of just 0.5 % annually over the past 5 yeOver the past decade, productivity growth has declined from a post-war average of 2 % to a growth rate of just 1 % annually, with growth of just 0.5 % annually over the past 5 yeover the past 5 years.

On the other hand, the earlier increases in dwelling prices were very large, and even with the latest data showing declines, a big cumulative rise in wealth has occurred over the past decade, most of which has not been tapped.

Also, it's worth noting that even under this more than doubling of rates from their current levels, these losses are a fraction of the 50 % declines that investors have experienced in stocks over the past two decades.

We believe that FedEx's enormous investment in infrastructure over the past decade will pay off in higher returns for shareholders, particularly should fuel prices decline.

Though the US dollar has remained the strongest fiat currency in a pool of rapidly devaluing fiat currencies over the past two years, if one calculates the declining purchasing power of the US dollar in the past couple of decades when using real rates of inflation inside the US (versus the bogus rates produced by federal entities), then one can easily reach the conclusion that the US dollar has crashed as well.

The higher level of liabilities that must be serviced would normally have significantly increased the NID over this period, but this effect was substantially offset by trend declines in global interest rates over the past two decades.

According to the Investment Company Institute, over the past decade, the average expense ratio of actively managed equity funds has declined 21 basis points.2 With participant protection front and center from a regulatory perspective, there is a lot more riding on the investment decisions made by plan fiduciaries.

While bond index fund investors have profited from the prolonged cycle of declining interest rates over the past three decades, we are currently at the early stages of a rising - rate cycle.

The number of those who profess to be Christian has been declining steadily over the past few decades, and the numbers of those who say they regularly attend church has declined dramatically, to fewer that 10 % of those who profess Christianity or simply a belief in God.

Those numbers reflect an even greater overall decline in dairy consumption over the past four decades.

In a draft report, the Productivity Commission says that education spending has substantially increased over the past decade but student achievement has shown little improvement, and in some areas has declined.

Younger teens in the 15 to 17 age group accounted for the steepest decline in nonmarital birth rates in 2013, falling 13 percent from 2012 and continuing a steady decline over the past several decades.

We got ourselves into this mess of poor nutritional habits, rampant obesity and declining health over the past five decades.

The NY Post isn't buying Cuomo's claim that his administration has «reversed decades of decline» in the state over the past three years.

This brief uses data from the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement5 to examine the importance of public pensions to black retirement security, and why the twin threats to public pensions — cuts to state pension benefits and the decline in public employment over the past two decades — particularly threaten the retirement security of African American workers.

But unions have been declining over the past several decades, and McMahon said there's no evidence that in some regions and for some projects, the union membership threshold has been met.

Officials are sorting out reasons for a statistical decline in the Upper Manhattan population over the past decade.