Instead, it lies below Yemen in the UNDP's ranking of human-development indicators, at 151st in the world.
The Mother's Index uses indicators of maternal health and under-five mortality, as well as women's education, income and political status.
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Improving economic indicators and Barisan's morale-boosting victory in Sabah's state election in March also point to polls sooner rather than later, possibly before Parliament convenes its budget session in October.
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And to the extent that it can address such big questions, news organizations should make the necessary inquiries -- dig into the suspect's past, find indicators of questionable behavior, look for signs of terrifying intent.
But recent indicators on Britain's economy, the third-largest in the 27-country EU after Germany and France, have been disappointing.
The latest figures hint that the Malaysian economy is starting to pull out of its trough - which may provide leading indicators of Mahathir's electoral inclinations.
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However, Kufour's side insists that Ghanaians will enjoy better conditions when largely positive macro-economic indicators trickle down to them.
Further support came from weaker-than-expected data on Thursday, specifically the drop in U.S. leading indicators and the Philadelphia Fed index.
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This is one advantage over the Conference Board's leading economic indicator, which conceals useful information by combining longer- and shorter-term indicators in a single measure.
But if the recent weakness in the dollar, run-up in commodity prices, and other forward-looking indicators are sustained and passed along into final prices, the Fed's price stability objective might no longer be a compelling policy rationale.
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Politics is always a trade off between the long game and the short game, of course, and even worse, they might think, is that it's likely that in a few years' time - with an election around the corner - many of those indicators may still not make happy reading for them.
The World Bank's in-house "watchdog, " an entity called the Independent Evaluation Group, recently lambasted Doing Business, claiming that there was no significant relationship between the publication's indicators and economic growth rates, even though the countries with the lowest rankings usually have the worst long-term records for economic growth.
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