An import boom creates only the illusion of economic strength.

Brazil s economic boom was largely a product of skyrocketing commodity prices.

Measured against a disappointing past, even Germany is currently experiencing an economic boom.

Some universal human weaknesses can result in irrational behavior during an economic boom.

During the last three years, Latin America has experienced an economic boom without precedent.

The new confidence in Edinburgh, which is experiencing an economic boom, is self evident.

MUNICH With the United States teetering into recession, the global economic boom has ended.

After the Second World War, growth continued, helped by a post war economic boom.

Bahrain has benefited from the oil boom since 2001, with economic growth of 5.5 .

While the West accumulated debts, Asia had startled the world with its long economic boom.

The economic boom is the only source of legitimacy that the one party state has left.

The economic orthodoxy pursued after the collapse of 1998 laid the groundwork for today s sustained Russian boom.

After 1999, it had an economic boom as a result of post war reconstruction and foreign assistance.

Huge boom. Huge boom. Huge bust. Huge bust.

Putin has sought an economic transformation of Russia similar in kind, if not in degree, to China s boom.

The spectacular and historic global economic boom of the past six years is about to hit a wall.

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Most benefited from the economic growth and expanded educational opportunities associated with the oil boom of the 1970 s.

Most importantly, the ultimate sources of the housing boom the beliefs about capitalism and future economic growth seem solidly entrenched.

Inspired by the region's economic boom, Mandela sought greater economic relations with East Asia, in particular with Malaysia, although this was scuppered by the 1997 Asian financial crisis.

Governmental contributions The Japanese financial recovery continued even after SCAP departed and the economic boom propelled by the Korean War abated.

Asia s Invention Boom

Africa s Big Boom

Granted, the credit boom itself may be rooted in excessive optimism surrounding the economic growth potential implied by globalization and new technologies.

While some countries are still dealing with economic crisis or its aftermath, China s challenge is once again how to manage a boom.

The International Monetary Fund credits Asian intra regional trade as the main factor behind its recent export boom and strong economic growth.

The proximate cause is a global economic boom that has been stronger, longer, and more broad based than any in modern history.

True, when today s global economic boom ends, as it inevitably will, commodity prices will plummet, easily 25 , quite possibly 50 or more.

With the entry of Poland into the European Union in 2004, Warsaw is currently experiencing the largest economic boom of its history.

The economic boom, precipitated by trade between the East Indies and China via the port of Batavia, increased Chinese immigration to Java.

Despite its brutality, like other totalitarian regimes in history, due to an economic boom, known as an economic miracle , the regime reached its highest level of popularity in the early 1970s.

But Germany will boom.

Germany s Pathological Export Boom

Long Live China s Boom

Harnessing the Remittance Boom

With little knowledge of China s tectonic changes, foreigners have been investing, buying, trading, and extravagantly praising its amazing, but hell bent, economic boom.

In Europe, this apathy is often seen as a reaction to the slowdown of what once looked like an unending postwar economic boom.

This facilitated a two decade long economic boom, while reducing pressure on governments to sustain the momentum of progress toward greater energy efficiency.

Moreover, he no longer resembles Putin the national leader, who, in his second term, reinvigorated the state and presided over an economic boom.

If you saw 2001 A Space Odyssey, and you heard the boom, boom, boom, boom, and you saw the monolith, you know, that was Arthur C. Clarke's representation that we were at a seminal moment in the evolution of our species.

Just as China s economic boom benefited commodity dependent economies, primarily in the developing world, its slowdown is reflected in these economies declining growth rates.

And, once an inflationary trend emerges and economic growth slows, the steady as you go pattern to China s decade long boom will be over.

Ireland faces huge economic problems as a result of a commercial real estate boom driven by banks that are relatively small by global standards.

A Productivity Boom in Waiting?