Good Governance and Economic Performance

Current conditions are keeping economic performance well below potential.

The resulting higher tax rates distort economic incentives and thus weaken future economic performance.

At the same time, economic performance depends to a considerable extent on economic policy.

These attitudes also largely echo their less convincing economic performance.

Nor has high taxation in the Nordic countries impeded economic performance.

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

Impressive economic performance enabled the region to invest in human and infrastructure development.

Raising women s labor market participation rate boosts economic performance in a number of ways.

But, viewed from a longer term perspective, Germany s economic performance is actually rather disappointing.

Reflecting the divergence in economic performance, Europe became divided into creditor and debtor countries.

And governments, which typically focus on crude measures of economic performance, encourage rapid urbanization.

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

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

One can argue that economic performance would have been even better with less government intervention.

Global trade and economic performance in the eurozone appear to be dragging each other down.

Fiscal stimulus was replaced by austerity, with predictable and predicted adverse effects on economic performance.

Too many countries seem to be focused more on political outcomes than on economic performance.

As president, he talked of economic performance as if it could be improved by decree.

Such tailored solutions are essential to bolstering economic performance in developed and developing economies alike.

It is an environment that will produce deep disparities in economic performance around the world.

Indeed, much economic research has demonstrated a powerful relationship between the level of trust in a community and its aggregate economic performance.

He has made no efforts at economic reform during his term and now seeks to blame the ECB for Italy s lame economic performance.

Much of that remarkable economic performance is built on the industries of the low carbon future.

Worse still, high levels of public debt, like high taxes, cause serious problems for economic performance.

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Indeed, much economic research has demonstrated a powerful relationship between the level of trust in a community and its aggregate economic performance. Without mutual trust, economic activity is severely constrained.

Countries have long used national income accounts, with GDP as the main indicator, to describe economic performance.

In principle, low post crisis growth in the advanced countries need not impede poor countries economic performance.

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

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

The overall performance of UNIDO and its contribution to economic development worldwide could not be over emphasized.

Performance between 1998 and 2002 in applying the CEDAW with respect to the economic advancement of women

The economic performance of Sierra Leone remained stable and GDP increased to 7.4 per cent in 2004.

Unfortunately this latter issue is tied to overall economic performance of the country and the regional situation.

Use of criteria such as average cost and total number of services delivered formed the initial basis for performance measurement, as undertaken by traditional systems.

The mystery, until recently, was why economic performance had been so weak. There were four types of explanations.

Whatever letter of the alphabet US economic performance ultimately resembles, what is coming will feel like a recession.

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

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

To be sure, Brazil has done remarkably well on some measures of economic performance over the past decade.

Given this spectacular economic performance, Americans could spend more on defense than the rest of the world combined.

Farther to the west, US economic performance is weakening, with first quarter growth a miserly 1.9 well below potential.

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

And that left the administration open to the charge that bad policy was the cause of poor economic performance.