Perceptions of economic trends and growth rates around the world over the past two decades, especially in advanced economies, suggests that the world is in a period of low growth without external stimulus delivered via speculative activities in the financial markets or fiscal stimulus. But is...

Many parameters such as tax rate and interest rate have been correlated with economic growth with varying degrees of success. However, quality of political leadership is often not a numerical or categorical parameter in modeling economic growth of a nation even though a stable and thoughtful...