And I will do that by trying to predict precisely at what year the average income per person in India, in China, will reach that of the West.

The per capita income of the new countries is less than half of that of the fifteen members they are joining.

Urban workers per capita income is more than three times higher than that of their counterparts in the countryside.

Most likely he took as his standard of sufficiency the bourgeois rentier income of his day, which was about ten times that of the average worker.

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.

It is not clear why Keynes thought eight times the average British national income per head would be enough. Most likely he took as his standard of sufficiency the bourgeois rentier income of his day, which was about ten times that of the average worker.

Nevertheless, I suspect that the age of American exceptionalism is near an end, and soon per capita income in Europe and Japan will approach that of the US, rather than falling farther behind.

That kind of economic mismanagement is the reason why a country that 45 years ago had a per capita income equal to that of Spain is now one of Latin America's most economically desperate.

Today, Indonesia's per capita income is four times that of Nigeria.

Hence, their real per capita incomes are lower relative to other countries.

Cambodia's per capita income is rapidly increasing but is low compared to other countries in the region.

Alaska is the largest U.S. state by area, and the tenth wealthiest (per capita income).

PHS Pakistan Integrated Household Survey.

Total energy use is soaring, reflecting the combined effect of rising per capita incomes and thus rising per capita energy use and population growth.

360 million in a market in a country that is a poor country, with an average per capita income just under 500 dollars per capita.

Indeed, Nigeria's per capita income (as measured in constant dollars circa 1995) has fallen.

The average income per capita of SSA countries in 2000 was less than half that for all developing countries, about 40 of the level of East Asian and Pacific developing countries, and less than 25 that of Latin America and the Caribbean countries.

People in the industrialized countries are already an estimated 74 times richer per capita than those in the poorest countries.

By the beginning of the 20th century, per capita income and industrial production in the United States exceeded that of any other country except Britain.

The purchasing power of national income per person in Nigeria is now 50 lower relative to Britain than in 1980.

The country has visibly prospered, and, despite population growth, per capita income has grown faster than ever before.

Thirty years ago, Indonesia and Nigeria both dependent on oil had comparable per capita incomes.

Urbanization is a building block for consumption, because it provides powerful leverage to Chinese households purchasing power. Urban workers per capita income is more than three times higher than that of their counterparts in the countryside.

During the 25 years of the spectacular rise of Latin America democracy, per capita income has increased by a mere 300.

Based on national experience, it considered economic development, including an increase in per capita income levels, to be the fundamental way out of poverty.

By reducing trade barriers, per capita income will grow, enabling poor countries to address other problems by themselves.

The cap rate could be higher, or it could start higher and be gradually tightened, or it could vary with an individual s income level.

In any case, all of the Nordic countries have very high incomes, and Norway s per capita income actually exceeds the US.

By 2001, the average pension in the Federation was two thirds of the average income per capita, which is above average for transition countries.

As a result, India s per capita income of 2,900 (in purchasing power parity terms) is one half of China s and one fifteenth that of the US.

Moreover, Sri Lanka had applied the recommendations of the Jomtien Conference. Considering its per capita income, Sri Lanka had done well in the education field compared to countries with similar income levels.

How should one compare growth records among a group of similar, developed countries? The best measure is not overall GDP growth, but the growth of income per head of the working age population (not per capita).

Actually if we go back into the historical record, there was a time hundreds of years ago when the income per person in India and China was even above that of Europe.

Interestingly, many countries that performed better than Chile on these standardized tests have a lower income per capita.

We cut customs duties, we reduced import duties, and we got all the multinationals coming in, with multinational budgets, who looked at per capita income and got very excited about the possibilities in India, and were looking for a vehicle to reach every Indian.

I moved to mainland China in 1979, when the country's per capita income was less than one third of Sub Saharan Africa's. Today, China has become an upper middle income country, and it is on track to become a high income country by 2020.

Noting also that in some economies in transition this progress has been slower, resulting in lower aggregate development levels and lower per capita income,

According to the Palestinian Economic Council for Reconstruction and Development (PECDAR), annual per capita income in Gaza continues to average roughly 700, while Israelis enjoy incomes averaging a 16,000 per capita.

Slashing food and energy subsidies in order to reduce fiscal strain is unlikely to win favor in a country like Egypt, where 40 of per capita income is allocated to food.

The Washington Consensus with its emphasis on liberalization, deregulation, and privatization does not forecast greater per capita income, nor does it eliminate poverty.

This division of jobs leaves out the developing countries, many of which are developing at a speed that will make them richer than Europe in per capita terms quite soon.

African nations typically fall toward the bottom of any list measuring small size economic activity, such as income per capita or GDP per capita, despite a wealth of natural resources.

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.

But, although the World Bank classifies Lebanon as an upper middle income country, with a per capita GNP of 10,800, 28 of the population lives below the poverty line.

India has multiplied its per capita income levels many times over since 1950, and has done so far faster in recent years than Britain or the United States did during and after the industrial revolution.