Governments across the globe have blamed war and the threat of war for poor economic performance.
American voters blamed Mr Bush senior for poor economic performance on his watch.
The growth is flattered by poor economic performance last year, when the economy was hit by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars).
The internal tasks address Europe's poor economic performance.
And in practice, the debate has concentrated on East Asia, largely ignoring South Asia, except in negative comparisons sometimes drawn between India's rumbustious democracy and its relatively poor economic performance on the one hand, and the tough but successful systems to the east on the other.
According to the World Bank, compare to the poor economic performance during Yeltsin administration, in which per capita income had a average negative growth rate of -6.2% per year, during the Putin administration, the Russian per capita income has increased an average of 6.9% per year.
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Employers are being asked to help workers boost their numeracy skills amid fears that poor maths is blighting Britain's economic performance.
But so far, his economic performance has been relatively poor.
The last 20 years of the USSR were characterized by very poor economic results, at least compared to the economic performance of the leading western economies.
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Of course, a lot of this disappointment has a single cause: the poor performance of the economy, and the OBR's judgment that a lot of the economic ground we had lost since 2007 we were not going to get back - meaning the books were in a worse state in 2010 than the coalition realised at the time.
Last year a report into the economic development agency's performance found its achievements were not clear because of inadequate data and poor evaluation.
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