The world is passing through the greatest economic crisis in decades.

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

This transfer has dramatically increased over the past two decades.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 .

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

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.

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

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

The country has been transformed profoundly in the recent decades.

In recent decades, that strategy has proved remarkably successful.

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

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

Indeed, the last two decades have proved dismal for the practice of the dismal science.

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.

The policies that transformed in China over the last two decades are unlikely to work in North Korea.

Over the last two decades, the world grew accustomed to US led international coalitions for war in the Middle East.

Over the past three decades, many ideas have been proposed but Saint Nazaire's approach has been radically different.

Ironically, the publication of these adverts collided with one of the most massive waves of refugees in decades.

Amnesty s estimates of the number detained over the past two decades range from 8,000 to 20,000.

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

NEW YORK One of the worst atrocity crime stories of recent decades has barely registered in the world s collective conscience.

Over the two last decades, masses of Indians and Chinese have closed the gap (in relative terms) with the rich world.

The good news is that the gap between the emerging and advanced countries has narrowed greatly in the last three decades.

Indeed, empirical research has shown that, throughout history, as far back as the Standard Oil case in the early 20th century, most instances of alleged predatory pricing have in fact been cases of superior efficiency.

Perhaps the most remarkable trend in global macroeconomics over the past two decades has been the stunning drop in the volatility of economic growth.

But most countries that are unburdened by such a threat have, quietly or spectacularly, rallied to the liberal order over the past decades.

Asia has led the way, but the past five years have been the best Latin American and Africa have enjoyed in decades.

As is well known, the United States economy has grown significantly over the past three decades, but the median family s income has not.

The last four decades saw a tremendous rise in the industry and service sectors, which is the main cause.

The Swedish Scandinavian model that has emerged over the last 20 years has provided the only viable route to sustained growth that Europe has seen in decades.

This is a huge contrast with the financial sector s position in the previous three decades.

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.