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.

Some Chinese are suspicious that the US push for RMB appreciation and financial market liberalization is really an attempt to gain trade advantages and generate profits for American companies while slowing China s economic expansion.

Even Germany is performing better.

Second, there is now evidence of weakening performance in China and the rest of Asia.

But the outlook for 2007 is for weakening global economic growth.

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

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

These attitudes also largely echo their less convincing economic performance.

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

He thought this instrument had some severe technical faults in particular, its great length led to poor performance.

To understand that, one has to consider the weakness of Europe s economic union.

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

Current conditions are keeping economic performance well below potential.

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

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

Expanded measurement of the dimensions of economic, social, and environmental performance is necessary to broaden awareness of sustainability issues.

Its per capita gross domestic product is 16,800,37 whereas that of the United States is 37,800.37 Economic performance is closely tied to the United States business cycle, its tax regime and the level of federal transfers.

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.

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

It is the sort of pretense of knowledge that the economist Friedrich von Hayek denounced as a recipe for constraining freedom and ensuring economic mediocrity.

Its economic stability is dependent on oil revenues, so it is here that Iran s rulers are vulnerable.

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

Economically, the United States, the eurozone, the United Kingdom, and Japan are all idling.

However, the overall impact of the disaster on economic performance in the region in 2005 is likely to be small.

(c) Asia and the Pacific There is a wide disparity in economic performance among developing countries in the region.

To be sure, economic performance will vary widely among EU countries. While Italy will be the laggard, with only 1.1 growth, the Irish rocket will not lose its force, pushing real GDP up by about 4.8 .

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

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

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

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

This trend has surfaced as a result of the realization of the poor economic performance of many resource rich countries despite their vast wealth.

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

German exports would also benefit from a weaker euro, boosting overall economic demand in Germany.

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

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

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

But two risks to Latin America s economic recovery loom large.

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

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

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

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

Economists put forward three reasons for the dismal performance of some richly endowed countries

General description Framework and institutional interventions are needed to harness the full potential of entrepreneurship and SMEs for improved economic performance.

Achieving these goals depends not only on economic performance, but also on the population policies of the least developed countries.