The Obama administration was not responsible for poor US economic performance in the immediate post crisis period that was inevitable.

This is not surprising, given Africa s poor educational provision.

The reasons for poor performance are deep seated and complex.

An important victim will be Japan, where anemic real income growth is depressing domestic demand and exports to China sustain what little growth there is.

This is not surprising, given Kenya s poor record of prosecuting war crimes.

Many Americans will reject Bush this November because of the poor performance of the economy or the quagmire in Iraq.

Structural poverty in Roma communities is intimately linked to poor education and unemployment.

A year ago, the euro zone s most important challenge was anemic economic growth.

Similarly, it would have been much better to let Wilders show his wretched film in Britain than to ban him.

With domestic demand still weak, more export demand is just what the doctor ordered for an anemic economy.

The US will be crippled by its high debt, under performing economy, and discredited economic model.

With such a poor track record, there is a need for soul searching and openness to other approaches.

The euro is the composite currency of an area with a poor growth record and an inadequate response to the economic crisis.

They, too, are humiliated by their leaders performance and, more deeply, their vulgar despotic essence.

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

Selectivity and narrow reinterpretation can only weaken the Treaty.

In its early years, the town with its meagre 200 inhabitants was too small to provide any kind of foundation for trade.

Even with the success of the bailouts, countries suffered massive output losses due to recessions and sustained subpar growth.

The problem in the advanced countries is not a jobless recovery, but an anemic recovery or worse, the possibility of a double dip recession.

This is, in part, inevitable. But it is also the result of poor coordination between governments as the world economy rebalances.

Indeed, Europe s divided stance on the Israeli Palestinian conflict exemplifies its poor record of achieving foreign policy consensus.

Another of Asia s relative weaknesses comes from its poor record on innovation, a fundamental building block of prolonged economic dynamism.

A little more humility is in order, given US regulators performance in the run up to the crisis.

Were it not for the shooting incident on the election's eve, the opposition might have eked out a victory, with the soft economy the deciding factor.

According to an old Chinese saying, a just cause enjoys abundant support, while an unjust cause finds scant support.

External demand in the second half of 2011 is unlikely to be strong, owing to the shaky global recovery.

It may be that the coming years will somehow see solutions to the EU s lost competitiveness, poor innovation, shrinking manufacturing, inadequate education, and growing labor shortages.

Seventh, the reasons for advanced economies high unemployment and anemic growth are structural, including the rise of competitive emerging markets.

For the global economy, the malaise reflected in anemic trade growth calls for coordinated fiscal stimulus by the world s major economies.

He is now likely to act as kingmaker, propping the underperforming Netanyahu with a solid right of center bloc.

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.

Indeed, today s enthusiasm for currency unions ignores the poor track record of previous attempts on the continent to establish them through peaceful means.

Against the background of a shaky global recovery, concerns have grown considerably over a possible hard landing for the Chinese economy, caused by monetary tightening aimed at controlling inflation.

As the US economy bottomed out in mid 2009, consumers entered a second phase a very subdued recovery.

Major eurozone economies like Spain and Italy have huge debt problems of their own, especially given anemic growth and a manifest lack of competitiveness.

Mexicans from all walks of life seemed concerned about spiraling violence, anemic economic growth, and the lackluster rule of the National Action Party (PAN).

If anything, the first round results revealed the power of the non Islamist revolutionary bloc, as well as Egyptians willingness to punish Islamists for their weak job performance in the parliament.

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.

And this pathetic performance comes at a time when many African economies agricultural sectors are booming on the back of high world food prices.

Cleaning up high private sector debt and lowering public debt ratios by growth alone is particularly hard if a balance sheet crisis leads to an anemic recovery.

Indeed, the latest data from Germany declining exports, falling factory orders, anemic industrial production growth, and a slide in investors confidence suggest that the slowdown has started.

NEW YORK With most of the world focused on economic instability and anemic growth in the advanced countries, developing countries, with the possible exception of China, have received relatively little attention.

(b) Resource management, especially of aid.

Moreover, such a slowdown would devastate the developing world, as weaker performance in the advanced economies reduces the growth of export markets.

The 2.1 consumption growth trend realized during the anemic recovery of the past two years could well be indicative of what lies ahead for years to come.