"In fact, it could be the first time in years that the eurozone actually outperforms the US economy – at least in one single quarter," he said.
The NHS also outperforms the other countries – which include France, Germany and Canada – in managing the care of people who are chronically ill, the report said.
Even tiny Hong Kong easily outperforms the rest of China, with 43 patents per million people; Taiwan does so overwhelmingly, with more than 250.So, where to place that game-changing skunk works?
But there is no clear evidence that private equity outperforms public markets (see article).
A recent attempt to analyse private-equity performance, by Robert Harris of the University of Virginia's Darden School, Tim Jenkinson of Oxford University's Saïd Business School and Steven Kaplan of the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, concludes that it is "very likely" that private equity outperforms the S&P 500 (after fees).
That may not sound much, but Mr Lau points out that it actually has 3.9m sensors, so that it comfortably outperforms a conventional 2.0-megapixel sensor.Foveon may find selling its products on the basis of quality, rather than raw pixel count, a marketing challenge.
Besides, the Catholic bits of Germany such as Bavaria are the richest.Peter Berger, an American sociologist, has found that Weber's theories have a certain plausibility in Latin America, where a Protestant, and especially a Pentecostalist minority, outperforms the Catholic majority.
Others, such as James Tooley, a British academic who advises a chain of low-cost for-profit schools in India, say private-sector education in poor countries routinely outperforms the free, taxpayer-subsidised version.
Consumers are reluctant to spend and, so far, buoyant export growth has not incited firms to invest, despite hopes to the contrary.The degree to which America outperforms the others will depend, in large part, on whether, and how, different countries tighten monetary and fiscal policy.
And the South now outperforms other parts of the country on some measures, like school integration and the share of blacks in white-collar jobs.
But an analysis by Record Currency Management of 33 years of data on five big currencies shows that the currency in the country with the higher interest rate outperforms the forward exchange rate slightly more often than not.
