M. Ayhan Kose and Ezgi O. Ozturk - Taking stock of the past half century. ... 1964,  the world economy was enjoying its best 10-year growth performance since  World War II. ... Had we written this article in 1964, we would have used  typewriters, not ... the past two decades with the rise of globalization—the  growing trade and ...
We are living in a world few could have imagined 50 years ago. What will the  workforce and workplace look like half a century from now? ... the last Labor Day  of the twentieth century, the twenty-first century work-place is already here. We  are .... The top 10 percent of full-time workers now average almost $1200 per  week in ...
The extreme social transformations of this century have caused hardly any stir. ...  less than half of the total farm population, or no more than two percent of the ...  Mao's "power grows out of the barrel of a gun" is almost a direct quote from Sorel.  .... average per year--for a fiftyfold increase in output per worker over 110 years.
American Racial and Ethnic Politics in the 21st Century: A cautious look ahead ...  Black two-parent families earn only 13 percent less than those who are white. ...  percentage points between 1940 and 1970, it has inched up only another 10  points .... Black students in their final year of high school were only 2.5 years  behind ...
During the first half of the last century, the growth of the world population caused  the ... Is it not the case that poor people might have less consumption but enjoy  their .... suggest that the incidence of extreme poverty has fallen below 10% for  that year. ... On every day in the last 25 years there could have been a  newspaper ...
For the last 10 years, our economy has grown at less than 2 percent on average every single year for 10 years. We have not had a decade like that in a century in America.