The N.I.E., I was told, includes a forecast that the next generation of political leaders is likely to be — and to be seen by Afghans — as corrupt.
The figures from Bloomberg forecast that over the next five years the country will lose at least 1 gigawatt of renewable energy generation – enough to power 660,000 homes.
Foreign carmakers already have about half the American market, and analysts forecast that within the next five years they will build more cars here than Detroit's automakers.
But the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) forecasts that over the next 30 years another 14 billion-24 billion barrels of the black stuff will be recovered.There may yet be new finds: Statoil, Norway's national oil firm, has made two big discoveries in its part of the North Sea in the past year.
In contrast, many economists forecast that over the next few years America's saving rate will rise to at least 6% as consumers are forced to trim their debts.Japan's high rate of saving used to be the main reason for its large current-account surplus.
He forecasts that in the next 10 or 15 years, urban positioning technologies will have enhanced messaging services to the extent that you'll be able to text the attractive stranger at the bar simply by pointing your phone at them.
IDC forecasts that within the next few years the number of homes with installed multiple device networks will approach 12 million, or about 12% of U.S. households, up from only 1.9 million homes by the end of this year.
But it still faces challenges in reaching that forecast over the next few months.
"We have not changed our view that the euro will rally," said Kenneth Landon, senior currency strategist at Deutsche Bank, who is forecasting that the euro, over the next 6 to 12 months, will reach $1.20, just above its May high of $1.19.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is forecasting that next year the so-called developing world will out-produce the developed world for the first time.
