A simple explanation is that Mediterranean countries enjoyed easy "catch-up" growth by importing technology.
The easy catch-up gains are exhausted and the economy slows or gets stuck.
But we all know Chinese growth must slow eventually as it runs out of opportunities for easy catch-up: such as urbanisation of the rural population and adoption of Western technology.
The "improvement" score, therefore, is measured against schools which had similar capacity for easy catch-up gains.
"It's not easy to catch up when you are this far behind in terms of affordable housing".
If it is, please go back and watch the excellent first two seasons, which, with only six episodes each, are easy to catch up on.
"This golf course is not easy to catch up," said Pak, 23, who captured two majors in 1998, the United States Open and the McDonald's L.P.G.A. Championship.
Conversations on P2s can be easily linked to via URL, are searchable and are visible to all, making it easy to catch up on what you've missed.
Flipboard takes these feeds and displays them like a magazine [see screenshot above], making it easy to catch up on the latest news and research.
And within the restrictions of a set of rules that restricts engine development, it's not going to be easy to catch up.
The project itself looks pretty good: modules are intuitive and the page interaction's easy to catch up on with just a few seconds.
