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Back in 1988, its per capita GDP was just 4% of the US level (in purchasing-power-parity terms).
We have selected three widely discussed methods of allocating GHG emission quotas to different countries:The equal per capita emission rights approach allocates emission rights to countries in proportion to their population, but only for the remaining portion of the global “carbon budget” – that is, for the amount that can still be emitted, between now and 2050, without causing dangerous, irreversible climate change.
The equal per capita cumulative emission approach seeks equality over time.
Thus, it combines responsibility for past emissions and equal per capita rights.
The second approach – equal per capita cumulative emissions – is, by definition, a way to produce perfect equality among all countries in the contribution that they will have made, over time, to climate change.
It thus leads to a carbon Gini coefficient of 0.The first approach – equal per capita emission rights from now on – results in a carbon Gini coefficient of about 0.4.
Success in international negotiations will hinge on how parties – and the citizens they represent – consider a few vital equity principles, especially historical responsibility and equal per capita rights.
On the other hand, equal per capita annual emissions is based on a principle that at least has a claim to be considered fair, and has a Gini coefficient of less than 0.4.
An economy’s productivity, or output per capita, is a function of capital stock, labor (the number of workers and how educated they are), and an admittedly vague residual known as “total factor productivity,” which refers to how capital and labor are organized.
For at least 50 years after World War II’s end, there was remarkably little convergence in per capita income.
Looking at the recent data on economic performance across the world, Arvind Subramanian, former chief economic adviser to the Indian government, and his colleagues argue that convergence in per capita income is taking hold more broadly.
According to World Bank figures, the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region suffered a 25% fall in per capita incomes during the last 25 years of the twentieth century, when oil prices were low.
Real (inflation-adjusted) per capita GDP in France, Greece, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States is lower today than before the Great Recession hit.
Indeed, Greece’s per capita GDP has shrunk nearly 25% since 2008.
And Germany’s real per capita GDP was higher in 2012 than it was in 2007 – though an increase of 3.9% in five years is not much to boast about.
Development 3.0BEIJING – Until the Industrial Revolution, the world was quite flat in terms of per capita income.
Moreover, between 1950 and 2008, only 28 economies in the world – and only 12 non-Western economies – were able to narrow their per capita income gap with the United States by ten percentage points or more.
The US is the world’s second-largest greenhouse-gas emitter, and its per capita emissions are about twice those of the largest emitter, China.
Moreover, the principle of equal per capita emissions is generous to the old industrialized countries, because it ignores their historical responsibility for the past emissions that have led to the situation we face today.
After correlating per capita income and self-reported happiness levels across a number of countries, he reached a startling conclusion: probably not.
It may be difficult for China to ever match the success of a small Asian country like Singapore, which has already overtaken the US in terms of GDP per capita as measured by purchasing power parity.
To achieve this leadership position, it needs less than a quarter of US per capita GDP, because its population is more than four times larger.
Guinea, which is making progress despite annual per capita income of roughly $450, exemplifies the potential of the world’s poorest countries to surpass expectations.
But Japan would close the 30% gap (adjusted for purchasing power parity) between its per capita GDP and that of the US.
The prevailing belief was that, by 2015 or so, Japan’s per capita GDP would more likely than not be 10% higher than in the US (in PPP terms).
The 70% of per capita US GDP that Japan achieved back then proved to be the high-water mark.
Less wealthy member countries benefited from tools like the Structural Funds and the Cohesion Fund, which provided considerable resources to enable them to boost their per capita income.
As the world’s largest CO2 emitter per capita, the US has a unique responsibility to help solve the climate-change challenge.
Given that China remains among the world’s poorest countries, with per capita income amounting to less than $7,000, its position as the world’s largest exporter of capital signifies a gross misallocation of resources.
While China’s per capita income was rising, and its middle class was growing, democracy did not arrive.
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