But growth in 2011 had been predicted to slow even before the earthquake.

Although growth continued in 2004, experts predicted that Iraq will be an importer of agricultural products for the foreseeable future.

In one session, 61 of participants foresaw stagnation in the next 2 5 years (33 predicted growth and 5 expected a crisis).

Malawi has one of the lowest per capita incomes in the world, although economic growth was estimated at 9.7 in 2008 and strong growth is predicted by the International Monetary Fund for 2009.

In particular, GDP growth is expected to be 1 per cent lower than predicted earlier in Sri Lanka owing to the effects of the tsunami.

The accounting and consulting firm PwC predicted that per capita GDP growth in China, India, and Nigeria would exceed 4.5 well into the middle of the century.

That's smaller than I predicted I predicted three to 10 million but is still a very large number.

Of course, if Chinese policymakers could have predicted what has now happened in the world economy, they might have been less stringent in trying to rein in growth.

The old man predicted our success.

No one could have predicted this.

For example, the classic 1972 bestseller Limits to Growth predicted that the world would run out of gold in 1981, silver and mercury in 1985, and zinc in 1990.

Tangible results were predicted to come soon.

This is also predicted to grow strongly.

Keynes predicted that in 100 years that is, by 2030 growth in the developed world would, in effect, have stopped, because people would have enough to lead the good life.

Unwritten books predicted the future, projected the past.

The Nobel laureate economist Robert Lucas has argued that the crisis was not predicted because economic theory predicts that such events cannot be predicted.

The idea of convergence had fallen out of favour along with the first generation of neo classical growth models that predicted it for a longer discussion see Kozul Wright and Rowthorn, 2002.

In successful economies, such as China and India, the movement of workers from traditional agriculture to manufacturing and modern services accounts for a substantial part of overall productivity growth, just as Lewis predicted.

Global meat consumption is predicted to double by 2020.

For example, the authors of The Limits to Growth predicted that before 2013, the world would have run out of aluminum, copper, gold, lead, mercury, molybdenum, natural gas, oil, silver, tin, tungsten, and zinc.

Although the doctors initially predicted a six week recovery, after two months they predicted that it might be a year or longer before she felt completely well.

However, as the predicted population growth materializes in the developing world, the pressure on local environments resulting from the increased production of energy will rise considerably, as will the amount of greenhouse gas pollutants released.

He predicted an overall twentieth century global warming of 0.8 ºC.

Sometimes interest rate changes have the predicted effect, sometimes they don't.

Judge Meron predicted that trials would have to run into 2009.

Before the EU s eastern enlargement, many studies predicted the likely migration waves.

Some analysts have even predicted a slow death of the Greek economy.

Neither alternative is something that I would have predicted or even imagined.

Mr. Ford predicted that flying cars of some form would be available.

When interest rates fall, the opposite effect on asset prices may be predicted.

Pundits predicted a win for Saeed Jalili, calling him the Supreme Leader's favorite.

Soviet leaders predicted that Finland would be conquered in a couple of weeks.

For example, Koc values can be predicted from octanol water partition coefficients (Kow).

Predicted growth rates remain high and, although global and regional patterns have fluctuated from year to year (most recently owing to fears over terrorism, health crises (e.g. SARs) and natural disasters), tourism has shown a strong and rapid ability to recover.

He predicted ever larger deficits and debt and ever larger government as a result.

Curiously, Iranian blog Green Reform predicted something like this would happen in August 2010.

The axino is a hypothetical elementary particle predicted by some theories of particle physics.

And within a few weeks of treatment, we were able to slow down that cancer's growth such that we were ultimately able to extend milo's survival to six times what the veterinarian had initially predicted, all with a very good quality of life.

What we found is that only 25 percent of job successes are predicted by I.Q.

But could they have predicted this unprecedented spike less than halfway through the Earth's life?

In fact, most Chinese economists predicted last year that inflation would peak in early 2011.

Fiscal stimulus was replaced by austerity, with predictable and predicted adverse effects on economic performance.

John Maynard Keynes predicted accurately that all of these debts would end up in default.

Moseley also predicted the existence of element 61, a lanthanide whose existence was previously unsuspected.

Other sources credit Carl Anderson as having predicted its existence in 1932 while at Caltech.