The economy isn't everything. Its condition is not always what it seems, and the U.S. president has far less influence on it than the general public give him credit for.

As far as "folks outside of USA" are concerned, consider that "good" Mr.Clinton used U.S. military force in Iraq, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Somalia, and Macedonia, without legal (i.e. constitutional) grounds, in addition to maintaining military bases across the globe (including Saudi-Arabia, which was the original cause of Al Qaida's resentment against the U.S. in the first place). During his administration the economy wasn't particularly help in general, as government-created inflation continued, and the U.S. national debt and budget deficits both grew.

(If the economy appears to have been "growing" during that time, it certainly isn't evidence that he deserves credit for that any more than Hoover deserves blame for the Crash of 1929.)

For all the "good" image he managed to maintain, Clinton was still a very typical member of the Bipartisan Monopoly club.