"Ten years ago, I said that Scotland was on the way to becoming a Third World economy in 50 years, " writes founder and chief executive Douglas McWilliams.
As we all recognize, the USSR has a first-rate military and a third-world economy.
But it's odd that CEBR isn't equally disparaging about the UK becoming a "Third World" economy, simply because foreign countries are growing at a faster rate.
The PwC report also forecast that the Irish economy would recover strongly in 2003 to become the world's third fastest-growing economy, after China and South Korea.
American economic growth during the 80s was the equivalent of adding the third largest economy in the world, West Germany, to the American economy.
The central bank has been under pressure from Japan's new government to take more aggressive steps to fight the long deflationary slump in the world's third largest economy.
The U.S., by our estimate, only accounts for about a third of the world's economy, so almost two-thirds of the value-creating engines of the global economy are outside our borders.
It hopes to bring the inflation rate to 2% and put to an end to a downward drift in consumer prices that has persisted for 14 years, undermining business and consumer confidence in the world's third largest economy.
The chief reason: Germany, the world's third-largest economy--and the driving force behind the euro's performance--is struggling.
By now, China has become the third-largest economy in the world, with the largest foreign reserves.
The world's third-largest economy is currently in a recession, having contracted for two quarters in a row.
Some economists now believe deflation is a serious possibility in what is, after all, the world's third-largest economy.
Jun Azumi, a former journalist, takes up the important role of finance minister for the world's third-largest economy.
Germany, though still running the world's third-largest economy, seems incapable of recovering the entrepreneurial spirit that produced the postwar German Miracle.
The world's third-largest economy has seen a rise in fuel imports, as most of Japan's nuclear reactors continue to remain closed.
Japanese policymakers have unveiled a series of measures of the past few months in an attempt to revive growth in the world's third-largest economy.
Japan, the world's third-largest economy, has the developed the worst debt-to-GDP ratio.
Stockmarkets stumbled on fears about the impact on the world's third-biggest economy.
However, car companies such as Nissan and Toyota, have restored their supply chains faster than expected, helping lift output in Japan, the world's third-largest economy.
Japanese stocks jumped and the yen sank after the country's central bank announced aggressive measures for getting the world's third-largest economy out of a two-decade slump.
According to Mr Schulz, if Japan, the world's third-largest economy, eventually joins the TPP, the group would account for nearly 40% of total global economic output.
The media have paid little attention to the fact that the third-largest economy in the world today, Japan, has been strangling its economy since the early 1990s.
Japan's parliament has approved Haruhiko Kuroda as governor of the Bank of Japan, who is expected to push for monetary stimulus to boost growth in the world's third-largest economy.
Japan's stock market continued to rise on a wave of enthusiasm for the Bank of Japan's aggressive new approach to shaking the world's third-largest economy out of its two decade slump.
Ending price declines would give companies and households more incentive to borrow and help the world's third-largest economy pull out of its latest recession, its third in the past five years.
Japan's central bank has acted to flood its financial system with more money to try to raise consumer prices, encourage borrowing and help pull the world's third-largest economy out of a prolonged slump.
The yen's sustained fall has riled some of Japan's trading partners but generally won support from leaders of other big economies eager to see the world's third-biggest economy recover from two decades of stagnation.
Economists say markets will judge the data released Friday as an indication of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's progress in firing up growth in the world's third-largest economy with economic stimulus and a more aggressive central bank.
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