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

The weak economic performance of landlocked developing countries reflects the direct and indirect impact of geographical factors on key macroeconomic variables.

Apart from that, Japanese economic performance is set to remain weak, because the non tradable side is not a strong growth engine.

Latin America s educational performance is equally weak at the university level.

The short answer is no. Indeed, the two main arguments underpinning claims that inadequate education is to blame for poor economic performance are weak, at best.

The single most important driver of deficit growth is weak tax revenues, owing to poor economic performance the single best remedy would be to put America back to work.

Economic performance in several Latin American countries was relatively weak in this period, with Uruguay s real GDP per capita actually recording a fall by a fraction of a percent.

The global economic recovery remains too weak.

Good Governance and Economic Performance

Keeping a weak banking system afloat has high economic costs.

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.

In other words, America s fiscal problems explain its extremely weak economic recovery.

Weak financial systems have often been a catalyst for broader economic crisis.

It would also include efforts to improve our performance in fixing the so called weak links in the nuclear safety chain.

These attitudes also largely echo their less convincing economic performance.

Indeed, all eurozone members are now experiencing weak economic growth, if not recession.

Bargaining over the economic surplus is often open ended, especially if competition is weak.

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

While the global economy s weak performance has led to a corresponding slowdown in the increase in carbon emissions, it amounts to only a short respite.

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.

They mistakenly believe that yen appreciation during the mid 1980 s caused Japan s weak economic performance in the 1990 s. Rather, we now know that Japan s economic difficulties were caused by the growth, and then collapse, of a huge asset bubble, and the failure to use monetary policy to prevent deflation after the bubble burst.

But the difference between these countries and their southern counterparts in terms of economic performance, social climate, and political culture are plainly visible. The weak and sick men of Europe from Greece to Spain are to be found in the south, not the north.

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.

Weak law enforcement often leads to illegal activities in the forest sector, causing economic, social and environmental loss.

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.

Across the Atlantic, America s fiscal crisis and weak economic growth will force it to reduce its global military commitments.

Latin America s economic and social structures remain marked by great inequality, weak institutions, and an abundance of natural resources.

It makes the weak force very weak by giving the weak particles a large mass.

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.