And Indonesia, with its first free elections for over 40 years due in June, is at least stumbling in the same direction.
In the US, the economic data was mixed, as producer prices were up the most in three years, due in part to crude oil prices.
Productivity increases have been strong in recent years, due in large part to improvements in technology - helping keep inflation in check while the economy expands.
And the gap has widened in recent years due to stagnation in the rate of young men earning degrees.
Fewer organs have become available in recent years due to improvements in road safety, and, at present, living donor operations are the only way to make up the shortfall.
Some bond investors are fretting that the overhang of bank reserves created by the central bank's policy over the past couple of years could in due course result in a sharp jump in inflation.
And one of the big causes of the great crash of 2007-8 is that over 30 years - due in part to appalling regulation - banks were allowed to reduce their capital reserves to a tiny fraction of their massive loans and investments.
The headphone manufacturing industry has suffered in recent years due to a decrease in consumer spending and fast-paced offshoring.
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Beijing-based Lenovo has seen strong growth in recent years due to expanding sales in China, as well as acquisitions in markets such as Germany and Japan.
Understandably, bottom lines aren't as robust as in prior years, in part due to slips in utilization, declines in investments and, in some cases, losses on interest-rate swaps.
Participation in the festival has declined in recent years due to migration, declining interest in Qiang heritage among the young and the impact of outside cultures, but the 2008 Sichuan earthquake that destroyed many of the Qiang villages and devastated the region put the New Year festival at grave risk.
Young kids are constantly seen playing pickup games and carrying their baseball gloves around, pastimes that have mostly gone the way of the10-cent bubble gum card in the U.S. In short, Japanese pro baseball is a gem that's lost some luster in recent years, due to bad positioning in the global marketplace.
In fact, recent research by Blancon et al published in Nature in 2009, examining the paleoclimate record, shows sea-level rises of 3 metres in 50 years due to the rapid melting of ice sheets 123, 000 years ago in the Eemian, when the energy imbalance in the climate system was less than that to which we are now subjecting the planet.
Bottlenecks, which had been a problem in past years due to robust demand, were reduced in 2012, the company said.
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Spinning Around, and the forthcoming album Light Years due for release in September, however, seem to show a return to the traditional Kylie sound.
Those stimuli may persist at near current levels in future years due to chronic high unemployment, as noted in earlier Insights, but seems unlikely to rise at the rates they did since the recession began due to their effects on the already massive federal deficits.
You buy a bond due in a year, another due in three, then six and end with one due in nine years.
Klug also explains that stars, especially those in the music business, have been hard hit over the past five years due to dramatic changes in payment methods and royalty structures.
Ireland, riding a strong tech wave in recent years, is due to cool off some in 2007 even as job growth remains positive.
Many serious observers conclude that the increased concentration of wealth among the most successful in the last 20 years is largely due to structural changes in the economy.
Yi Xianrong of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences says housing costs, which have been rising fast in many cities in recent years, are not given due weight in the index (food accounts for a third of the index and housing less than 14%).
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This change in work habits has only become possible in recent years due to a host of new Cloud and mobile technologies that have been the driving factors in the reshaping of the American workforce.
And London is arguably a special case: the city's leases tend to be unusually long, often 25 years, which means that tenants in old offices whose leases are due to expire in the next few years may want to up sticks for a modern building.
The Tigers have lost money in aggregate over the past five years, in part due to falling attendance.
In addition, consumers have become more price sensitive in recent years due to the economic crisis.
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Hybrid and electric cars have become increasingly popular in recent years due to high gasoline prices.
This anxiety has become increasingly intense in recent years due to political uncertainties.
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The firm had suffered in recent years due to competition from online retailers.
He also wanted a postponement by a couple of years of the general election due in the spring of 2001.
The role had been scaled back in recent years due to cost concerns but this needed to be reconsidered, Mr Asghar said.
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