Two Decades from Warsaw

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

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

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

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

The second stage of the war between the north and the south lasted two decades.

For nearly two decades now, the news has been bad and the images have been haunting.

The accord ended two decades of North South fighting that had killed and uprooted millions of people.

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

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

Until now, Putin has been lucky, coming to power just as oil prices started to rise. Most Russian citizens credit him with two decades of rising living standards, following decades of decline.

They've been swept away over the last two decades by these types of world flattening digitization technologies, right?

Afghanistan is facing a legacy of human rights violations committed over more than two decades of armed conflict.

The United States is the only superpower, and it's likely to remain that way for two or three decades.

The persistence of war for more than two decades has led to grave losses at all levels in Afghanistan.

From flying finishes to flying dismounts, Frankie Dettori has been the poster boy of British Flat racing for two decades.

Over two decades ago, the world insisted to Africa that markets must be liberalized, that economies must be structurally adjusted.

We have lost two valuable decades to respond adequately to globalization and the crisis of liberal democracy and open societies.

Other indicators testify the dimension of the economic, social and political crisis that has affected Mozambique in last two decades.

As of 2004, 81 of all positions in the military are open to women, compared to 56 two decades ago.

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 Landsat series has provided regular observations of the surface of the Earth for two decades, monitoring renewable and nonrenewable resources.

To give you some perspective, in the previous two decades of searching, we had only known about 400 prior to Kepler.

And in Papua New Guinea, they were making stone axes until two decades ago, just as a course of practical matters.

Noting that about 70 to 80 of its economic and social infrastructures have been destroyed during the two decades of war

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.

So these poorest two billion will, in the next decades, increase to three billion, and they will thereafter increase to four billion.

But in the last two decades, it has experienced an unprecedented expansion, now accounting for roughly 15 percent of the world's GDP.

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

In the last two decades (1981 2001), life expectancy for Israeli women has increased by 5.3 years, compared to 4.6 among men.

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

And this is an insight that came, about two decades ago, from a person that I'm very fortunate to work with, David Kaplan.

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.

Ultimately, there are two ways that you can rebuild Haiti the way at the top is the way that Haiti's been building for decades.

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

So I'm sitting here looking at the next two decades of my life, this chasm of happiness that we're driving our proverbial convertible straight into.

These developments seem to add to global inequality. So, on balance, it seems that global inequality has been relatively stable during the last two decades.

So, for now, northeast Asia is temporarily calmer and less unstable than it has been for almost two decades. Yet it remains a potential flashpoint.

While two decades ago the effectiveness of south south cooperation may have been limited, many developing countries have since acquired substantial technical and policy expertise.

During the last two decades, there was an increase in Arab women's participation in the labor force, from 11 in 1980 to 14.8 in 2002.

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.

The economic situation, which is still very precarious, with many people living close to starvation, constitutes another key challenge. Two examples suffice to illustrate the impact the price of rice has tripled while consumption of electricity is down by two thirds from two decades ago.