Accounting for shrinking grade variances and course selection also explains the convergence in grades for a group where we would expect catch up to not occur: legacies.
Iceland, which was able to grow at about 1% a year over that time, nearly managed the expected catch-up growth from 2000 to 2011.
The Indian team is now expected to catch up with those expectations, and if one were to take the media pundits and former cricketers seriously, that is a mere formality.
(The club is capped at eight because that seems like the maximum one can reasonably expect to get seated at a restaurant; when new members join, they are expected to catch up by eating, and ranking, whatever burgers they have missed).
The prime minister was expected to catch up with the New Zealand prime minister, John Key, after the dinner.
The theory is that China should be expected to catch up rapidly, with South Korea at least.Too simplistic, say analysts convinced that the supercycle is about to freewheel downhill.
Sony said it still expected to catch up with its long-term plans to have sold 10 million PlayStation 2 devices by the end of March.
After years of rapid growth, China is now the fourth-largest economy in the world, poised to surpass Germany and Japan before long, and widely expected to catch up with the United States around 2050.
Prices for these later years (when demand is expected to catch up with supply) would have been close to the tariffs needed to make new plants profitable, sending a useful signal to investors.
He said he expected to catch up with Mr. Romney in the delegate race by the time of the Texas primary on April 3, promising that "the contrast between Governor Romney and me is going to get wider and wider and clearer and clearer".
The top three smartphone brands in Indonesia are currently RIM's Blackberry, Samsung's smartphone and Apple's iPhone, although Android phones are also expected to catch up fast because of their relatively cheaper price.
