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

Why has Germany performed so badly?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Performance measures

Performance measures

Why does Africa continue to perform poorly, despite two decades of structural reform? Most African governments have liberalized their trade regimes, deregulated their economies, and (by most measures) improved the quality of their policymaking.

So, while the economic numbers may look bad, the country s political leadership looks great.

Why does Africa continue to perform poorly, despite two decades of structural reform?

Economic data reveal that the global economy is shakier than at any time in the past two years.

Other economic indicators, such as interest rate spreads and the rate of job loss, also turned around in early 2009. Labor market recovery normally lags behind that of GDP hence the jobless recoveries of recent decades.

CAMBRIDGE The US Federal Reserve has emphasized that its monetary policy will be determined by what economic indicators show.

Other economic indicators, such as interest rate spreads and the rate of job loss, also turned around in early 2009.

Rather, it must deliver better economic performance for its citizens by emphasizing the challenge of competitiveness, particularly with respect to the new emerging countries.

This is likely to be not only the crucial question for the European Union s further development, but also a key issue affecting the performance of the global economy.