per capita incomes

Newly elected South Korean President Lee Myung-bak has promised to help rapidly double per capita incomes in a non-nuclear North.

Chinese per capita incomes remain low but plenty of urban consumers are able to sample high-value goods and services.

With its major oil reserves, discovered in 938, it has one of the highest per capita incomes in the world.

It is no accident that the countries with the highest per-capita incomes are also the ones with the highest rates of energy consumption.

Singapore is Southeast Asia's fourth biggest economy and enjoys one of the highest per-capita incomes in the region.

There is no doubt that wages are rising in China, with urban per capita incomes up 82 per cent over the past five years.

The overwhelming majority (more than 95%) of measles deaths occur in countries with low per capita incomes and weak health infrastructures.

But several Asian countries with estimated per-capita incomes lower than China's also posted higher average life ratings.

It is true, of course, that higher per capita incomes are great for workers, but that they also mean higher wages for manufacturers.

According to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, per capita incomes in China have already passed this point.

In the first essay, Barro finds evidence of convergence in per capita incomes, conditional on human capital levels.

The freest countries enjoy per capita incomes over 10 times higher than those in countries ranked as 'repressed.

Nor have they suffered slower growth in per capita incomes.

In contrast, the median for the richest countries - those with average per-capita incomes higher than $25, 000 - is 47 percent.

Without resources to increase investment, many low-income African countries would suffer another ten years of declining per capita incomes.

On the first, China's per capita incomes are still low, about $3, 000 per annum compared with $40, 000 in the US.