To be sure, Scandinavian growth is mediocre.

Even in the United States, economic performance has remained mediocre, with growth hovering around 1.5 for the last few quarters.

Given synchronized fiscal retrenchment in most advanced economies, another year of mediocre growth could give way to outright contraction in some countries.

Not since the 1960 s had Mexico undergone ten consecutive years of economic stability, low inflation, low interest rates, a stable currency, and constant, though mediocre growth.

Don't live a life which is monotonous, mediocre, meaningless.

In the US, annual growth was already below trend in the first half of 2010 (2.7 in the first quarter and estimated at a mediocre 2.2 in April June).

The best people usually find jobs (or are found) through professional connections, and most mediocre people get mediocre or worse jobs where they lose whatever potential they had.

Male youth soccer camps and leagues are either nonexistent or mediocre.

Consequently, such regimes grow increasingly sclerotic as they select leaders with stellar resumes but mediocre records.

With Lack of quality script and mediocre performance the cinema industry managed releasing of 100 movies per annum.

These past 13 years have been fair to middling for the country mediocre economic growth, but no collapse democratic rotation in power, with no uprisings or massacres a slow but steady expansion of the middle class and a slow but steady drop in corruption.

The likely scenario for advanced economies is a mediocre U shaped recovery, even if we avoid a W shaped double dip.

And liberal capitalism itself with its mediocre political leaders and cartoonish public discourse has become a poor advertisement for the Absolute Idea.

The mediocre quality of education, very high repetition and dropout rates, very low levels of learning retention, particularly in French and mathematics.

Brazil is still an enormously bureaucratic country, with an educational system in crisis, very high taxes, mediocre infrastructure, impediments to the creation of businesses, and a high level of corruption.

Subzero Blue from Tunisia visits the Aquarium in Carthage and writes I was expecting a really cool aquarium, but I was somewhat let down, as it turned out to be pretty mediocre.

There is a spectrum between mediocre work and good work, and as anybody who's worked as an artist or a creator knows, it's a spectrum you're constantly struggling to get on top of.

Aside from his alleged involvement in assorted crimes, Bo was said to be a ruthless apparatchik, endowed with an outsize ego but no real talent. His record as a local administrator was mediocre.

Emergency support from a few friendly governments has so far limited the erosion of Egypt s foreign currency reserves at a time of mediocre tourism earnings and growing imports of food and other basic necessities.

There is, indeed, room for such concerted action, as the outlook for all three economies has deteriorated significantly. In the eurozone, GDP will certainly decline in 2012, and forecasts for next year are mediocre at best.

In a country like Mexico, where advancements in education are unstable and mediocre according to the Organization for Economic Co operation and Development, the effort and passion that teachers bring to their classrooms every day can often go unacknowledged.

Slow growth is manageable. Negative growth is not.

In other words, economic growth should be viewed as growth in wealth, not growth in GNP.

Rapid output growth without equally rapid capital stock or employment growth must have reflected rapid productivity growth.

This transformation has become a virtuous circle where initial growth has spiraled into greater growth, leading to more growth.

There is evidence that countries with high growth in services also tend to have high overall economic growth conversely, countries with high overall economic growth have high services growth.

Platelet derived growth factor (PDGF) is one of the numerous growth factors, or proteins that regulate cell growth and division.

Wage growth, rather than borrowing and financial booms, fuelled demand growth.

Austere Growth?

But what has been overlooked is that the effect of services growth on aggregate economic growth appears to be as strong, if not stronger, than the effect of manufacturing growth on overall growth.

In good times, the trade generated by a country s growth bolsters global growth.

Growth industries are those, which benefit from new sources of dynamic industrial growth.

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Indeed, rapid growth in investment may translate into high import growth and trade deficits.