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Yet when China began running a continuous trade surplus, its per
capita
income was just above $400.
Perhaps the most difficult aspect of turning the US into a good global citizen is cutting back on its grossly excessive greenhouse gas emissions – roughly five times the global per
capita
average.
Countries that regulate entry by new ISPs in this way have fewer Internet users per capita, regardless of national income and general development of the telecommunications network.
As European Central Bank data shows, average per
capita
GDP in the accession candidates is 44% of the eurozone level.
NSE treats modern economic development as a process of continuous structural change in technologies, industries, and hard and soft infrastructure – all of which increases labor productivity, and thus per
capita
income.
The best measure is not overall GDP growth, but the growth of income per head of the working-age population (not per capita).
Europe is the worst off in this regard: its GDP has hardly grown in the last four years, and GDP per
capita
is still less than it was in 2007.
Economic models told us that freer trade and immigration would increase global economic efficiency and per
capita
income.
In the last quarter-century, Chile managed to consolidate democracy, triple per
capita
income, and achieve the highest living standards in Latin America, with near-universal coverage in health care, education, and old-age pensions.
Add to this several other differences – above all, poorer families’ higher fertility rates – and the sums reveal that the top 10% of households actually make 78 times more (on a per
capita
basis) than those at the bottom.
But, while it is true that the economy has stagnated for more than two decades, real per
capita
income has increased faster than in the US and the United Kingdom so far this century.
Most notable is the comparison with Poland: at independence, the two countries had roughly the same GDP per capita; today, Poland’s is more than three times higher.
Germany has recently been overtaken in terms of per
capita
income by several EU countries, including Ireland, the UK, the Netherlands, and France, and is still growing more slowly than all of them.
With its population set to contract by 0.5% annually over the next 30 years, even if per
capita
income in Greece were to rise at the German rate of 1.5% per year, the debt would be difficult to service.
Owing to the failures of past governments, Italy has not experienced per
capita
GDP growth for two decades.
Under such conditions, there is no good reason to invest anywhere south of Rome, which explains why the region’s per
capita
GDP has fallen 30% below the eurozone average since 2001.
GDP per
capita
was US$67 in 1953, immediately following the Korean War, and rose to only US$79 in 1960.
In cooperation with the international community, we will help North Korea raise its annual per
capita
income to US$3,000.
Argentina achieved per
capita
economic growth of just 0.5% during 1980-1998, while Korea grew at a rate of 6.2% per year, fueled by its high-technology exports.
At the same time, emerging-market countries’ per
capita
income has risen – as has their international role.
Thirty years ago, Indonesia and Nigeria - both dependent on oil - had comparable per
capita
incomes.
Today, Indonesia's per
capita
income is four times that of Nigeria.
Indeed, Nigeria's per
capita
income (as measured in constant dollars circa 1995) has fallen.
From 1999 to 2013, real per
capita
GDP rose at an annual rate of about 1% (which reflected a more modest rise of real GDP and an actual decline in population).
As a result, among 80 countries with comparable data on the quality of learning, GDP per
capita
now explains only 6% of the variation in performance.
The big problems, of course, are how we take account of past responsibility for the carbon in the atmosphere, how we balance aggregate national emissions and per
capita
figures – China leads in the first category; the US, Australia, and Canada are the biggest culprits in the second – and how we manage technology transfer from developed to emerging and poor economies.
Kaya calculated CO2 emissions by multiplying total population by per
capita
GDP, energy efficiency (energy use per unit of GDP), and carbon intensity (CO2 per unit of energy).
While growth has been reasonably stable since EMU started, per
capita
GDP – probably the best measure of economic success available – shows that Europe has lagged other regions, even when the figures are adjusted for workforce size.
In that case, Australia’s per
capita
contribution ranks 71st worldwide.
This correlation is reinforced by the convergence hypothesis – the benchmark theory for estimating an economy’s potential growth rate – which states that a rapidly growing developing economy’s real growth rate will slow when it reaches a certain share of the per
capita
capital stock and income of an advanced economy.
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