Sentences with phrase «growth over the past century»

The most extraordinary Christian growth over the past century has come in Africa: home to 8.7 million Christians in 1900, 542 million today, and perhaps 1.2 billion by 2050, when there will be as many African Christians as Latin American and European Christians combined.

As the result of rapid, unprecedented population and industrial growth over the past century, humans can collectively alter the course of nature.

Not exact matches

Gross adds that the global monetary system, which has evolved and morphed over the past century but always in the direction of easier, cheaper and more abundant credit, may have reached a point at which it can no longer operate efficiently and equitably to promote economic growth and the fair distribution of its benefits.

«Over the past half century, your odds of identifying a growth stock you can hold for 20 years are 4 % and only 15 % for 10 years.

The pace of loan growth — 100pc of GDP over five years — is unprecedented in any major economy, eclipsing the great boom - bust dramas of the past century.

Demographic trends have shifted dramatically in the U.S. over the past half century toward an older population, and hence potential growth has to be structurally lower today, even as we hire great numbers of people (to say nothing of deploying ever greater numbers of robots).

But as I noted last week (see Two Point Three Sigmas Above the Norm), nominal growth and interest rate variations have historically canceled out over the past century, with little effect on the accuracy of our valuation estimates — matched reductions in the growth rate and the discount rate really don't affect fair value.

Over the past century, chemical fertilisers have been used to boost nitrogen levels and crop yields, helping global food supply keep pace with population growth.

However, coastal cities worldwide have experienced enormous growth in population and infrastructure over the past couple of centuries — and a global mean sea level rise of 10 to 20 feet could be catastrophic to the hundreds of millions of people living in these coastal zones.

Over the past quarter century, G20 carbon dioxide emissions had risen by almost 50 percent while per capita emissions had gained by about 18 percent, reflecting population growth, it said.

Comparable gains have yet to appear throughout American K — 12 education, but to see how it might happen, let us reflect on the slow growth of choice and competition via vouchers and charters that has taken place over the past quarter of a century.

Over the past century, the highest growth rates over any 30 - year period were 6.3 % annually for dividends, and 7.8 % for earnings (trough to peOver the past century, the highest growth rates over any 30 - year period were 6.3 % annually for dividends, and 7.8 % for earnings (trough to peover any 30 - year period were 6.3 % annually for dividends, and 7.8 % for earnings (trough to peak).

Of the 9.6 percent nominal total return earned by stocks over the past century, fully 9.5 percent has been contributed by investment return - 4.5 percent by dividend yields and 5 percent from earnings growth.

Wages are essentially flat after inflation, and experts believe that the robust economic growth that the United States achieved over the past century is a thing of the past.

This diversified tenant base is key to Welltower's ability to generate secure cash flows, which is what has allowed the consistent growth of Welltower's generous dividend over the past half century.

Over the past half century, Lancaster has managed to achieve impressive growth thanks to its disciplined approach to acquiring small, niche specialty products food companies that fit well into its existing business model and supply chain.

As a result of its innovative and conscientious approach, Coastal Pet Products has built a robust and loyal customer base that has driven dramatic growth for the company over the past half century.

Over the past several years, Pam and Bill Royall's support has served as a catalyst in the growth of VMFA's exceptionally strong collection of 21st century art.

This was done by subtracting the anomalous pattern of growth that emerges over the past couple centuries in these chronologies relative to other tree - ring chronologies that otherwise exhibit very similar patterns of growth back in time, but which are unlikely to be influenced by the same non-climatic factors.

Over the past half century, I think fossil fuels have become a source of complacency rather than a stimulus for growth.

Low rainfall in eastern Europe and extreme temperatures in western Europe, which topped 40 degrees centigrade in France, for example, combined to hinder plant growth in a way that was unprecedented over the past century.

If fossil fuel consumption is to blame, and if it continues to track the exponential growth rate of the past century, it stands to reason that the temperature increase over the next century will be considerably more than over the previous one.

The growth in the atmospheric CO2 concentration over the past several centuries is primarily the result of mankind's thirst for energy — largely in the form of fossil fuels.

The models heavily relied upon by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had not projected this multidecadal stasis in «global warming»; nor (until trained ex post facto) the fall in TS from 1940 - 1975; nor 50 years» cooling in Antarctica (Doran et al., 2002) and the Arctic (Soon, 2005); nor the absence of ocean warming since 2003 (Lyman et al., 2006; Gouretski & Koltermann, 2007); nor the onset, duration, or intensity of the Madden - Julian intraseasonal oscillation, the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation in the tropical stratosphere, El Nino / La Nina oscillations, the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, or the Pacific Decadal Oscillation that has recently transited from its warming to its cooling phase (oceanic oscillations which, on their own, may account for all of the observed warmings and coolings over the past half - century: Tsoniset al., 2007); nor the magnitude nor duration of multi-century events such as the Mediaeval Warm Period or the Little Ice Age; nor the cessation since 2000 of the previously - observed growth in atmospheric methane concentration (IPCC, 2007); nor the active 2004 hurricane season; nor the inactive subsequent seasons; nor the UK flooding of 2007 (the Met Office had forecast a summer of prolonged droughts only six weeks previously); nor the solar Grand Maximum of the past 70 years, during which the Sun was more active, for longer, than at almost any similar period in the past 11,400 years (Hathaway, 2004; Solankiet al., 2005); nor the consequent surface «global warming» on Mars, Jupiter, Neptune's largest moon, and even distant Pluto; nor the eerily - continuing 2006 solar minimum; nor the consequent, precipitate decline of ~ 0.8 °C in TS from January 2007 to May 2008 that has canceled out almost all of the observed warming of the 20th century.