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Indeed, while aggregate per
capita
income in the eurozone remains at 2007 levels, Greece has been pushed back to 2000 levels, and Italy today finds itself somewhere in 1997.
By propping up violent jihadists in the Middle East, North Africa, and beyond, while supporting the United States in its fight against them, this gas-rich speck of a country – the world’s wealthiest in per
capita
terms – has transformed itself from a regional gadfly into an international rogue elephant.
South Korea’s Feminine FutureSEOUL – Over the last half-century, South Korea has made considerable economic progress, with per
capita
income increasing from a mere $80 dollars in 1960 to more than $22,000 last year.
Because per
capita
incomes are higher in cities than in rural areas, the world’s cities today are estimated to account for more than 80% of global income, with the largest 600 accounting for around half.
Brazil has shown very little growth over the past 15 years; per
capita
income today is less than in 1980.
Per
capita
carbon emissions in US coal states tend to be much higher than the national average.
Over the period for which modern statistics are readily available, Democrats have outperformed Republicans by almost every traditional measure of economic performance (per
capita
GDP growth, unemployment, inflation, budget deficits).
This is almost certainly impossible, owing to the gradual diminution of the major drivers – including market-oriented economic reforms, the convergence effect on per
capita
income, and the adoption of foreign technologies – of China’s extraordinary TFP growth over the last 30 years.
After all, investment opportunity is inversely proportional to per
capita
capital stock.
In a country where per
capita
income is just over $1,000, this is significant.
Income per
capita
almost tripled.
In most European Union countries, per
capita
GDP is less than it was before the crisis.
Americans consume the most meat per capita, after Luxembourgers.
The mainstream school defines China as a developing country, pointing to China’s per
capita
GDP, which ranks only 104th in the world.
On the contrary, over a surprisingly short span of time the Irish proved how a small and determined country could use European integration to rise to the status of one ofEurope’s richest countries in terms of per
capita
purchasing power.
American per
capita
income is higher, but in terms of human capital, technology, and exports, Europe is very much an economic peer.
And, on a per
capita
basis, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay, El Salvador, and Mexico eked out less than 2% annual growth on average.
Until mid-2013, the IMF and the World Bank had projected aggregate per
capita
GDP growth rates for the emerging and developing countries (EMDEVs) to be almost three percentage points higher than in the world’s advanced countries over the next few years.
Most commentators expected a substantial difference in per
capita
growth to continue beyond this decade, disagreeing only about the magnitude of the emerging countries’ growth advantage.
What is likely is a return to the pre-crisis differential: from 1990 to 2008 (excluding the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis), aggregate per
capita
growth in the emerging world was about 2.5 percentage points higher than that in the advanced countries.
When I first visited South Korea at the same time, its GDP per
capita
was lower than Nigeria' s.
The record, indeed, is clear: in 66 countries with IMF programs, between 1985 and 1998, per
capita
spending on health and education rose by more than 2% per year after inflation.
At the same time, China really is still a “poor” country in terms of per
capita
income.
Compared to the advanced countries, the developing world now has both low per
capita
incomes and low per
capita
levels of carbon emissions.
If developing countries are allowed to grow, and there is no corresponding mitigation of the growth in their carbon emissions, average per
capita
CO2 emissions around the world will nearly double in the next 50 years, to roughly four times the safe level, regardless of what advanced countries do.
These considerations suggest that no emission-reduction targets should be imposed on developing countries until they approach per
capita
GDP levels comparable to those in advanced countries.
Strikingly, seven of them are clear "overachievers," because they also have low per
capita
GDP levels.
Indeed, five of the nine qualify as "great overachievers" - significant political rights despite annual per
capita
income of less than $1,500.
Seven had annual per
capita
income levels exceeding $5,500 in the period from 1972 to 2000 but no significant political rights for three consecutive years.
And the maximum sacrifice of future income per
capita
will be no more than 1-4% of global GDP.
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