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

The United Nations system has learned many lessons from agency experience in supporting African development 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.

The limited success of Brazil's industrial development policies over the past two decades could be explained by both internal and external factors.

Over the past two decades, since the end of the Cold War, there has been an overall decline in the number of civil wars.

Despite the up and down since then, the overall trend and this is the important bit clearly points downward for the past two decades.

Because the global rise in inequality had accompanied the economic reforms of the past two decades, it was hard not to conclude that the two were related, at least in part.

Two Decades from Warsaw

Over the past few decades, the principles and foundations of public administration have experienced a radical transformation, owing to two major changes in the world.

These figures have fallen dramatically over the past several 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.

Data from the Aviation Safety Network indicates 111 people have died in crashes of PNG registered airlines in the past two decades but none involved Air Niugini.

More than 62 per cent of the gross domestic product was totally destroyed, and development progress a blessing over the past two decades has now been thwarted.

In the past two decades, governments have come up short on solutions to environmental threats. Politicians have failed to implement properly the treaties adopted at the 1992 Earth Summit.

Europe s soft power has changed many things in many countries over the past two decades, spurring leaders and citizens to reform their economies and embrace or strengthen democratic values and institutions.

Their expected growth of more than 5 per cent over the next two years exceeded by a substantial margin their performance in previous decades, reflecting the benefits of past policy reform.

First and foremost is economic growth, which for the past few years indeed, for the past two decades has been dismal. In countries where trade and investment is concentrated in ties with the US, this is a central issue in the bilateral relationship.

Over the past two decades the States members of CARICOM had carried out some of the most radical programmes of economic reform, with the expectation of reaping the gains of trade liberalization.

Although significant efforts have been made over the past two decades to upgrade reactor safety features, with excellent results, facilities still exist at which nuclear safety assistance must be made a priority.

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.

Up to 12 million Roma live in Europe today, primarily in the East. Despite the region s overall economic growth over the past two decades, life for many Roma is worse now than ever.

International concern and debate over energy has grown increasingly over the past two decades, with the issues of poverty alleviation (energy for the poor), environmental risks and climate change now taking centre stage.

This institution is government backed and it has been the case for the past three decades.

The past six decades since 9 May 1945 have seen growth and change in this institution.

Over the past few decades, Africa has suffered more from armed conflicts than any other continent.

Over the past two decades, however, the UK has seen the stagnation of the development of its nuclear power, and a majority of its existing 15 nuclear power stations have reached their design lifetime.

Third, the current system is inequitable, because it forces a transfer of resources from developing countries to the industrial nations that provide reserve currencies. This transfer has dramatically increased over the past two decades.

In addition, it is believed that the majority of the up to 3.2 million southern Sudanese who have fled their homes over the past two decades are intending to return once the situation allows.

Look a decade ago, look two decades ago markedly different.

Secondly, in the past two decades, thanks to globalization, thanks to the market economy, thanks to the rise of a middle class, we in Turkey see what I define as a rebirth of Islamic modernism.

It has been two decades since the last global debt crisis.

In today's society, this is the easiest thing to do, much easier than any decades in the past.

When you go into spaces like this, you're directly accessing the past, because they sit untouched for decades.

(c) Ensuring that the effective atmospheric monitoring systems put into place over the past few decades are maintained.

Our economy, which had been growing at an average of 7 per cent per annum during the past two decades, is now expected to register a 3 to 4 per cent negative growth rate this year.

We must now do the same for education. Though access to primary schooling has expanded dramatically over the past two decades, a transformative breakthrough in quality learning and secondary education has remained out of reach until now.

Despite all of the obstacles and risks, Modi has articulated an explicit economic vision for the first time since Nehru. Unlike the apologetic reforms of the past two decades, Indians have been promised a confident new beginning.

Over the past two decades, nearly 700 institutions of higher education on every continent have signed it. Nevertheless, there remains a nagging sense that universities are luxuries now that ordinary people are struggling to make ends meet.

They have also given funding for two decades to this whole program.

The last two decades have been the champagne era for dirty lucre.

Today, for a given rate of GDP growth, the corresponding inflation rate is substantially higher than it was over the past two decades. In other words, inflation especially house price inflation has become an important constraint on growth.

There is two ways to be past oriented, two ways to be future.

So investors are wondering will future decades be like the past decade? If so, shouldn't investments in equities be shunned?

Tourism, which has been the engine of our national economic growth for the past three decades, has suffered a sharp decline.

Furthermore, Iran has borne huge costs over the past three decades as a result of hosting almost 3 million Afghan refugees.