You are given a sentence in Portuguese. Your job is to translate the Portuguese sentence into English.

Nos últimos 100 anos, a combinação da democracia liberal com o capitalismo privado ajudou a catapultar os Estados Unidos da América e os países ocidentais a novos níveis de desenvolvimento económico.
Over the past hundred years, the combination of liberal democracy and private capitalism has helped to catapult the United States and Western countries to new levels of economic development.