In the past two decades, governments have come up short on solutions to environmental threats.

This transfer has dramatically increased over the past two decades.

In the last two decades, the Government has taken numerous steps to improve road safety in Singapore.

Japan s slow growth and low interest rates over the past two decades are emblematic.

Consider, for example, Latin America s growth model of the last two decades.

The cause of these missing, but vital, resources lies in the shameful neglect of agriculture in the past two decades.

So, on balance, it seems that global inequality has been relatively stable during the last two decades.

India will thus become the new China of the past two decades.

WASHINGTON, DC The geography of poverty and social deprivation has changed dramatically over the last two decades.

Over the last two decades, a booming vegetable and cut flowers industry has developed on the shores of Lake Naivasha in Kenya.

Africa is the only continent in which food production has declined significantly over the past two decades.

The international community has taken note of the enormous growth in United Nations peace operations over the past two decades.

These trends reflect a combination of technological and global market forces that have been operating over the last two decades.

The output of the US and European music industries sounds stale in comparison, owing to a dearth of innovation over the last two decades.

The pattern is not uncharacteristic of other industrialized countries relative to emerging markets over the last two decades (Figure 1).

If they follow through, as I expect, there will be no return to the strategies of the last two decades.

Over the past two decades, nearly 700 institutions of higher education on every continent have signed it.

During those two decades, American and Chinese officials frequently discussed North Korea s behavior, both privately and in public meetings.

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

But the alternative could be worse a populist backlash that destroys much of what Mexico has achieved over the last two decades.

For most of the past two decades, jihadists in the Caucasus and Central Asia were a major source of concern for the Kremlin.

There should also be some understanding for what Russia and the Russian people have gone through over the past two decades.

Over the last two decades, lobbyists have worked to harmonize and strengthen a far stricter and globally enforceable IP regime.

The total fertility rate has dropped by 50 per cent, from 6.3 to 3 births per woman over the last two decades.

As a victim of terrorism over the past two decades, India understands, and is fully supportive of, the need for United Nations action on counter terrorism.

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

For the last two decades, Chinese leaders have been diligently trying to build a new edifice in order to gain some of that missing respect.

The financial revolution that swept the world over the last two decades seemed to sever the link between representative government and public finance.

Moreover, just this month, the visa wall surrounding the region for the last two decades finally fell for everyone (with the exception of the Kosovo Albanians).

Canada, in the past two decades, has decreased spending by 8 of GDP and similarly prospered.

The United Nations system has learned many lessons from agency experience in supporting African development over the past two decades.

Because of the splintering of political parties, India has had only one single party government and eight coalition governments in the last two decades.

In the meantime, the minority that has benefited financially over the past two decades is unlikely to give up its advantages without a fight.

Japan s deflation and economic stagnation over the last two decades stemmed largely from a dysfunctional financial system and a lack of private demand.

They are an enormous boon to low income consumers, partly compensating for the tepid wage growth that many of them have suffered during the past two decades.

Communist China has experienced a monumental capitalist revolution in the last two decades, with an economy that is now six times bigger than it was 20 years ago.

Africa is the only continent where rural poverty has been increasing and per capita food production has been declining over the last two decades.

The past two decades have shown that politically correct decisions do not produce the right results, even in the long run.

The financial sector s explosive growth over the past two decades has fueled the accumulation of exceptionally large volumes of debt.

But rising pressure over the past two decades from civil society groups, the media, and more enlightened politicians is finally showing results.

The main driver of Pakistan s dramatic reduction in polio cases over the last two decades has been leadership at all levels.

Over the past two decades, the Government and the hard working people of the Maldives, with the most generous help from the international community, have transformed the Maldives into a vibrant country.

The advent of new information and communication technology infrastructure in the course of the past two decades has created additional opportunities and challenges for developing countries.

Over the past two decades, the US and its European allies believed that they could inculcate the rest of the world with their economic and political principles.

Savings behavior invariably reacts to changes in interest rates, which have fallen steadily over the last two decades to today s record low levels.