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According to the International Monetary Fund, China already has more square meters per capita of urban residential real estate than Japan or South Korea.
Of course, Europe’s economies have not become “look-alikes,” nor has GDP per capita been fully equalized.
The strategic shift is also a deliberate effort by Chinese policymakers to avoid the dreaded “middle-income trap” – a mid-stage slowdown that has ensnared most emerging economies when per capita income nears the $17,000 threshold (in constant international prices).
Urban workers’ per capita income is more than three times higher than that of their counterparts in the countryside.
After all, Hong Kong has one of the world’s most educated populations: the city has, in per capita terms, perhaps more graduates of the world’s top 20 universities than anywhere outside of Manhattan.
This represented a sharp break from the previous half-century; indeed, this period was characterized by the slowest growth in real per capita health-care spending on record.
The Lancet Commission argues that an “essential package” of medicines would cost lower-middle-income countries only $0.78 per capita per year.
Kagame then suggested giving every country an annual per capita quota for CO2 emissions, and allowing developing countries that are below the quota to trade their excess quota with countries that are above theirs.
In fact, the world’s per capita emissions were 4,700 kilograms, or more than double the permissible limit.
Historically, the US has added disproportionately to the rising concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and among large countries it remains the biggest per capita emitter of carbon dioxide by far – more than twice China’s rate and nearly 2.5 times more than Europe in 2013 (the latest year for which the World Bank has reported complete data).
The cost of incarcerating two million Americans – one of the highest per capita rates in the world – should be viewed as a subtraction from GDP, yet it is added on.
They often forget that Japan’s $5 trillion economy is the second largest in the world – more than China and India combined – with a per capita income that is ten times that of China.
Gaps in income and wealth may be shooting up within individual countries, but per capita income in developing countries is rising much faster than in the advanced economies.
Asia, the world’s driest continent in terms of per capita freshwater availability, needs a rules-based system to manage water stress, maintain rapid economic growth, and ensure environmental sustainability.
During the 25 years of the spectacular rise of Latin America democracy, per capita income has increased by a mere $300.
The Washington Consensus – with its emphasis on liberalization, deregulation, and privatization – does not forecast greater per capita income, nor does it eliminate poverty.
In Georgia, Moldova, Tajikistan and Ukraine, for example, per capita GDP is now less than half of the dire levels achieved under communism.
Foreign direct investment in 1991-2001 averaged $1,400 per capita in the eight former communist EU candidate countries.
It was only $198 per capita in the CIS.
The answer is that blaming the Euro is an easy way to deflect attention from the true cause of Europe's economic malaise: a surprisingly low level of productivity per capita.
Given India’s impressive economic performance and rapidly growing per capita GNP, this failure is unjustifiable.
On a per capita basis, its economic growth now outpaces that of the United States.
Yet, even then, the eurozone’s per capita growth rate is unlikely to be much lower than that of the US, because the difference in their productivity growth rates is now minor.
In this sense, the eurozone’s future may look more like Japan’s present, characterized by headline annual growth of a little over 1% and stubbornly low inflation, but per capita income growth similar to that of the US or Europe.
In our view, the limits of managerial capitalism explain why, after approaching US levels of per capita income in the late 1980’s, both Western Europe and Japan failed to match America’s information-technology-driven productivity resurgence that began in the 1990s.
With a per capita income of $13,000 last year (measured by purchasing power parity), South Africa is a middle-income country similar to Brazil, Mexico, and Thailand.
China’s real per capita GDP currently amounts to about 25% that of the United States.
When Adam Smith wrote The Wealth of Nations in 1776, per capita income in the world’s richest country – probably the Netherlands – was about four times that of the poorest countries.
The WTO’s intellectual-property agreement, called TRIPS, originally foresaw the extension of “flexibilities” to the 48 least-developed countries, where average annual per capita income is below $800.
A measure of South Korea’s success is that it was the first country to make the transition from being a recipient of OECD aid to becoming a donor, with per capita GDP today exceeding $30,000 (in purchasing power parity terms).
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