After many years of outperformance, GDP growth has slowed sharply.

There will be winners and losers, of course, but systematic sectoral out performance looks unlikely.

Surely, imitation will someday impinge on superior US growth performance as well.

Since first coming to power, Putin sought to cement Russia s status and its global standing on the basis of superior economic performance.

However, even continued strong performance by Asia s emerging markets is unlikely to be enough to secure a strong global recovery.

Strong economic performance reflects strong domestic demand in the US, owing to low borrowing costs and rising asset prices.

An undervalued currency enables an economy to integrate into the world economy on the basis of strong export performance.

Moreover, with the dramatic exception of Yugoslavia, it was carried out peacefully, which contributed to strong economic performance.

Furthermore, the continuation of strong trade performance can be thwarted by adjustments to global imbalances or by rapid increases in oil prices.

Budget projections for 2005 point to continued strong total revenue performance, with an increase of 8.4 per cent above 2004 levels.

The IMF recently established the Short Term Liquidity Facility to help strong performing members facing temporary liquidity problems.

With a low growth ceiling, strong economic performance generates inflationary pressures at a relatively early stage in the growth process.

The very existence of decoupling arguments is a warning that they should be concerned about the continuing robustness of Europe s economy.

In Japan, solid economic performance remains elusive, while prime ministers succeed each other at a breathtaking pace.

Superior German economic performance has bid up the euro and European interest rates to levels that, while comfortable for the Germans, put pressure on the euro zone s laggards.

The PIIGS debt burden is so high that robust economic performance is next to impossible.

Moreover, the international situation for Argentina is highly favorable, with excellent terms of trade guaranteeing strong performance for producers of raw materials.

In other words, a central bank s primary responsibility is not to preserve the health of the firms that make up the banking sector, but rather to maintain the robust functioning of the economy as a whole.

According to estimates by the United Nations, the global economy expanded by 3.8 last year, continuing the strong performance recorded since 2003.

If we called valedictorian a white knight paladin level 20, I think people would probably work a lot harder.

TUNIS Like a long dormant volcano that suddenly erupts, the revolutions that have swept across North Africa against a backdrop of strong economic performance took all by surprise.

After many years of outperformance, GDP growth has slowed sharply. Annual output will most likely rise by less than 5 this year, down from 6.8 in 2011 and 10.1 in 2010.

Of course, some of the better managed emerging market economies will continue to experience rapid growth and asset outperformance.

The question, to which a clear answer may be impossible, is how much of these exports are for profit and how much are for survival and thus whether strong trade performance can be sustained.

Following strong performance in 2010, Germany s GDP exceeded pre crisis levels by early 2011, a somewhat better achievement than that of the US.

Whether it is a permanent or temporary adjustment, the Chinese authorities have much work to do in laying the groundwork for strong economic performance in the medium and long term.

Strong economic performance is somewhat surprising, given his party s interventionist policy approach, but Meles showed himself to be a consummate pragmatist in attracting investment particularly from China to drive growth.

China's leadership plays up this revolutionary commitment, for it helps generate nationalist sentiment, one of the few things (besides strong economic performance) that legitimizes the Communist monopoly on power.

German precision instruments and optical equipment, for example, lost their competitive edge when Japan entered the game.

The weakness in Latin America s education systems reinforces a less rosy view of its economic success in recent years one that attributes strong performance mainly to favorable external conditions, not improved productivity.

Only one fact really mattered powerful export performance, with both countries maintaining large trade surpluses over several years and through different stages of the economic cycle.

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These companies aren t all competing to build precisely the same kind of vehicle in fact, each considers its own approach superior.

By doing well, it is argued, people do good.

An undervalued currency enables an economy to integrate into the world economy on the basis of strong export performance. It stimulates production (and hence employment), unlike overvaluation, which stimulates consumption.

China s investment rate is extremely high in comparison with other major economies, and has been increasing steadily since 2001, creating first overheating and then overcapacity. Until the global financial economic crisis that began in 2008, however, strong export performance concealed China s overcapacity problem, which, thanks to the stimulus package, is now set to become more serious.

What is the secret behind Scandinavia s success? One explanation of Scandinavia s strong performance is Sweden s courageous product market liberalization, the reduced generosity of Denmark s wage replacement system and the Nokia miracle in Finland.

We believe that this resolution allows us to provide strong support to the Court and constitutes a significant step within the United Nations towards ensuring the proper functioning of the international human rights system, for which the Court is, and must be, an essential tool.

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Dialogue means tolerance. It does not mean the powerful imposing their will on the weak it means listening to others. That way, the weak and the vulnerable will feel that the powerful do listen to them, and the powerful will feel the obligation to explain and justify their position to others.

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