In recent years America's partners and friends in Western Europe and Japan have made great economic progress.

Sprinkel told conferees that the recent improvement in economic activity was not a `` temporary flash in the pan '' but the beginning of a substantial cyclical expansion that will carry the economy back to full employment levels and witness a renewal of our traditional growth pattern.

High international oil prices and rising oil production have led to a very strong economic growth in recent years, but corruption and public-sector mismanagement remain, particularly in the oil sector, which accounts for over 50 percent of GDP, over 90 percent of export revenue, and over 80 percent of government revenue.

In the 2000s, along with the construction sector, the services sector was the driving force behind Armenia's recent high economic growth rate.

This suggests that tax collection in Armenia is improving at the expense of ordinary citizens, rather than wealthy citizens ( who have been the main beneficiaries of Armenia's double-digit economic growth in recent years ).

Agrarianism concentrates on the fundamental goods of the earth, communities of more limited economic and political scale than in modern society, and on simple living — even when this shift involves questioning the " progressive " character of some recent social and economic developments.

The population of Cape Breton Island has been in decline for almost two decades with an increasing population exodus in recent years due to economic conditions.

Much of the recent economic history of Cape Breton Island can be tied to the coal industry.

Although there have been disagreements with established EU member nations over some economic issues, such as agricultural quotas and a recent amendment to the gaming law, relations are good.

In recent years dependency theory has been used to examine the situation of the Maritimes, and while it rejects most traditional economic models it does correspond with the evidence.

While the transition to a market economy proved difficult, many of the post-Soviet states have been experiencing strong, resource-based economic growth in recent years, though the levels vary substantially.

Despite the recent modest and stable growth, Djibouti is faced with many economic challenges, particularly job creation and poverty reduction.

Djibouti has experienced stable economic growth in recent years as a result of achievements in macroeconomic adjustment efforts.

While relations between the islands have had difficulties, mainly due the huge exodus of illegal immigrants from the Dominican Republic due to the nation's history of economic woes, the islands still, with the assistance of the United States Coast Guard and the Dominican Navy have worked hard to reduce the number of Dominicans crossing the Mona Passage in recent years.

* Economic Report of the President, published annually by the United States President's Council of Economic Advisors on recent economic activity and future policies and predictions

A squid trawler, and a cruise ship in Port William, Falkland Islands | Port William representing two trends in recent economic development

Guinea's economic reforms have had recent notable success, improving the rate of economic to 5 % and reducing the rate of inflation to about 99 %, as well as increasing government revenues while restraining official expenditures.

The research interests of historians change over time, and in recent decades there has been a shift away from traditional diplomatic, economic and political history toward newer approaches, especially social and cultural studies.

Its industrial decline following the Second World War was particularly acute, but in recent decades the country has enjoyed something of a cultural and economic renaissance, fuelled in part by a resurgent financial services sector, the proceeds of North Sea oil and gas, and latterly a devolved parliament.

German sociologist Max Weber mentioned Scottish Presbyterianism in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism ( 1905 ), and many scholars in recent decades argued that Calvinism's " this worldly asceticism " was integral to Scotland's rapid economic modernization.

The discovery of substantial deposits of North Sea oil in 1965 and the renewables sector have contributed to a degree of economic stability in recent decades.

While international trade has been present throughout much of history ( see Silk Road, Amber Road ), its economic, social, and political importance has been on the rise in recent centuries.

In recent years, economic or industrial espionage has taken on an expanded definition.

Some recent writings assume that the ignorant young couples are a thing of the remote, Victorian past ; ;

Jasmuheen claims that their beliefs are based on the writings and " more recent channelled material " from St. Germain.

In a recent study based on Kafka's office writings, Reza Banakar points out that many of Kafka ’ s descriptions of law and legality are often treated as metaphors for things other than law, but also are worthy of examination as a particular concept of law and legality which operates paradoxically as an integral part of the human condition under modernity.

" MI5, the intelligence department of the Home Office, noted: " It is evident from his recent writings – ' The Lion and the Unicorn ' – and his contribution to Gollancz's symposium The Betrayal of the Left that he does not hold with the Communist Party nor they with him.

Jasmuheen maintains that some of her beliefs are based on the writings and " more recent channelled material " of the Count of St Germain.

It is because of this engagement that his writings have become influential in the recent project of naturalizing phenomenology, in which phenomenologists use the results of psychology and cognitive science.

In more recent years, a collection of Mitchell's girlhood writings and a novella she wrote as a teenager, Lost Laysen, have been published.

Yet during the two years during which he worked on the Project, Adorno was nevertheless prolific, publishing “ The Radio Sympthony ,” “ A Social Critique of Radio Music ” and “ On Popular Music ,” texts which, along with the draft memorandum and other unpublished writings, which are now found in Robert Hullot-Kentor ’ s recent translation, Current of Music.

The recent modern writings of Terrence Deacon and Merlin Donald, writing about the origin of language, also connect reason connected to not only language, but also mimesis, More specifically they describe the ability to create language as part of an internal modeling of reality specific to humankind.

Many beings who are described as deities in older tales are described as " fairies " in more recent writings.

The Defender featured letters and poetry sent in from successful recent migrants ; these writings " served as representative anecdotes, supplying readers with prototype examples … that characterized the migration campaign ".

Two recent publications of Paton's work include travel writing -- The Lost City of the Kalahari ( 2006 ); and a new complete selection of his shorter writings -- The Hero of Currie Road.

However a recent archaeological discovery has been reported from Gansu province of paper with legible Chinese writings on it dating from 8 BCE, while paper had been used in China for wrapping and padding since the 2nd century BCE.

Brown was regarded as a somewhat secondary novelist by scholars in the cold war era who focused on normative aesthetic criteria and tended to ignore the wide scope of his writings, and their referential impact, but more recent and historically-oriented scholarship has established Brown as a leading writer and intellectual of the late enlightenment and early republic.

Because of the recent contretemps over van Dieren, Heseltine submitted these pieces as " Peter Warlock "; they were published under this pseudonym as was all Heseletine's subsequent musical output, his own name being reserved for critical and analytical writings.

His recent writings also elaborate on the concepts of Michel Foucault, whom he calls " a scholar from whom I have learned a great deal in recent years ".

Although the 1857 and 1959 legislation outlawed the publication, retail and trafficking of certain writings and images, regarded as pornographic, and would order the destruction of shop and warehouse stock meant for sale, the private possession of and viewing of pornography has not been prosecuted until recent times.

The Trappists have received particular attention in recent years because of the popularity of the writings of Thomas Merton, a member of the order.

Through Giorgio Agamben, Chantal Mouffe and other writers, Carl Schmitt has become a common reference in recent writings of the intellectual left as well as the right.

His more recent writings show the effect of the study of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's theory of perception.

Nevertheless, linguistic analysis of his writings has shown that Schlick was most likely from the area around Heidelberg, and recent research showed that Schlick was most probably born into a family of a Heidelberg butcher, whose family name may have been Slicksupp.

In The Fabrication of Aboriginal History and other recent writings on Australian Aboriginal history, Windschuttle criticises historians who, he claims, have extensively misrepresented and fabricated historical evidence to support a political agenda.

In more recent years, Dahl's writings have taken on a more pessimistic tone.