Tag: per capita GDP

WSI: Regional Variation in the Global Economic Expansion

Jul 25, 2008

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mwkruse

in Economics, Series: World Social Indicators 2008, Trends: Economic, Wealth and Income

Economic historian Angus Maddison offers some other powerful insights into the recent global economic expansion by doing some regional analysis. The popular history of the world is that through colonization, the West European nations enriched themselves by robbing other regions of the world of their resources, thus driving them into destitution. Let's take a look…
MEC: Measuring Income Past and Present

Mar 19, 2008

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mwkruse

in Economics, Human Progress, Series: Must Everything Change?, Trends: Economic

We have now seen how prosperity, measured in terms of long life, is spreading throughout most of the planet. Yet when most people think of the disparity between nations, they usually think in terms of income levels. Income is correlated with other factors that empower us to survive and thrive. The common refrain we hear…