Under four-and-a-half years of Ms Mayawati's rule, the state has recorded an average of over 7% growth a year, a tad less than India's average of 8.15%.
The truth is that there can surely be no hard-and-fast rule for a country as diverse as America, 7% of whose population in a typical year will be exposed, according to Robert Ursano of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, to a traumatic event.