Why has Germany performed so badly?

One of the world economy's biggest puzzles is Latin America's poor performance. Since the early 1980's, Latin America has been stuck, with per capita incomes growing slowly (if at all) in most of the region, and with one big crisis following another.

One of the world economy's biggest puzzles is Latin America's poor performance.

After all, blaming the US is predominantly a way of shifting light from Europe's failed leadership to another country's struggles for a safer world (including the continued existence of Israel) and a stronger world economy.

The only thing that might hold the dollar at near to present levels is a bad economic performance in Europe.

Health and economic performance are interrelated. Infant mortality, child mortality, and life expectancy all correlate with rising income.

Now consider their economic performance.

India's Economic Performance 1868 2000

Coastal countries tend to outperform landlocked countries. Countries with high levels of malaria tend to endure slower growth than countries with lower levels of malaria.

Coastal countries tend to outperform landlocked countries.

Chile s economic performance has been the strongest in South America.

Second, exchange rates need to reflect economic fundamentals.

An emigration department was created in 1906 at the ministry of agriculture.

NEW HAVEN Recent indications of a weakening global economy have led many people to wonder how pervasive poor economic performance will be in the coming years.

In these terms, the American economy's performance is likely to remain dismal. Increases in measured productivity mean that the economy's potential growth rate is now somewhere between 3.5 4 annually.

In these terms, the American economy's performance is likely to remain dismal.

To be sure, economic performance will vary widely among EU countries.

Poor 2012 corporate financial results will further undermine credit ratings. Fewer and fewer companies will meet basic risk criteria.

Disappointing export performance is largely responsible for the recent weakening of economic growth prospects.

European unemployment remains high, and productivity growth (and hence living standards) has slowed since the mid 1990s.

But the coalition proved unable to translate political success into strong economic performance.

Europe's disappointing economic performance lies at the root of this.

Equally revealing, several Middle East economies are booming.

Bad people do bad things.

The currency, the real, has been strengthening steadily, to nearly twice its value against the US dollar in October 2002, when Lula was first elected.

Although economic performance during this period was not dismal, it was certainly not impressive.

You read out his KRA, his KPI, you give him the keys, and then you remove the blindfold.

While such words merit caution, economy fundamentals bear them out.

Recent research I conducted with the IMF's Arvind Subramanian demonstrates that Nigeria's poor economic performance is primarily a story of the mismanagement of oil revenues.

All credible economic indicators show employment prospects in Iraq improving since the end of the invasion.

Moreover, its economic performance has been relatively sluggish, with a growth rate of just 2.3 last year.

Perversely, the worse the country performs economically, the more aid it receives.

They're bad.

It's bad news.

Zombies are bad.

It is surprising that America s stock market hasn t crashed yet, since all other indicators are pointing downward.

On both sides of the Atlantic, economic performance tanked in 2009 and started to recover in 2010.

As the economic pie grows less rapidly, greater fairness will be crucial to social stability.

As in most of continental Europe, economic performance has been enormously disappointing over the last two decades.

But chances are that it will not really help, because it trying to reduce deficits in that manner will severely undermine economic performance.

Make no mistake policymakers track record on forecasting Greek economic performance during the crisis has been an embarrassment.

Since the mid 1990 s, African economies have been recording growth rates that are higher than world averages.

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This is bad news.

That's bad news.