6 Today's high - income countries (
per capita income of $ 20,000 or more) are responsible for slightly less than half of all CO2 emissions.
The good news: we will see impressive advances in resource efficiency, and an increasing focus on human well - being rather than on
per capita income growth.
A jump in daily essentials has a more profound negative impact on living standards in economies with lower levels of
real per capita income.
To put this in context, the mean
per capita income per month for people living in the rural areas studied was only $ 74 USD.
Of more importance is the growth of the ratio of GDP to population (GDP per capita), which is also
called per capita income.
It means that in many places only very rapid economic growth will lead to rising
average per capita incomes, and this rate of growth is difficult to attain.
With per capita income rates in Worcester not even breaking $ 18,000, this steep rate likely discourages a lot of would - be drivers.
NationsBank reports annual
per capita income for 1995 was $ 15,200 in Alabama and only $ 12,700 in Mississippi.
Its award - winning school system and high
per capita income level draws families and businesses to the area, leading Oldham County to be one of the fastest growing counties in the state.
It is important to those who support the current global market, therefore, to argue that although the poor have not benefited proportionately from the global market, they have benefited a little as measured
by per capita income, or, at least, they have not lost.
While growth in China is trending lower, the share of global output produced in China will continue to rise,
as per capita incomes converge towards those in the more advanced economies (Graph 6).
There is high agreement that in the specific circumstances where other risk factors are extremely low (such as
where per capita incomes are high, and states are effective and consistent), the impact of changes in climate on armed conflict is negligible (Bernauer et al., 2012; Koubi et al., 2012; Scheffran et al., 2012a; Theisen et al., 2013).
Slovakia's problems are not particularly economic — the Bratislava self - governing region is the sixth - wealthiest EU region, with purchasing power parity
per capita income more than 180 % of its regional average — and as a member of the eurozone, the country has attracted substantial foreign direct investment, notably into its auto industry.
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) estimates that
per capita income grows by an average of 4 per cent for every 10 - per - cent increase in foreign trade.
Rapid population growth, increased urbanization and
rising per capita income in emerging markets is driving two important trends, which in large measure, drive Zoetis» growth strategy:
IBISWorld analysts also discuss how external factors such as
Global per capita income and GDP of the BRIC nations in the Global Commercial Aircraft Manufacturing industry impact industry performance..
Based
on per capita income, Bothell ranks 78th of 614 areas in the state of Washington to be ranked.
Their study (also in Southern Economic Journal) looked at
how per capita income was affected by work stoppages in the National Football League and Major League Baseball over a nearly three - decade span.
Judged by the standard GNP statistics, the
US per capita income had increased in real value by 25 per cent since 1976; but, using the ISEW, they found that over the same period the economic wellbeing of Americans had actually declined by 10 per cent.
Gapminder's interactive graphs let you plot countries» populations over time against variables
like per capita income and life expectancy — or carbon dioxide emissions.
The North
Korean per capita income is a mere $ 1,800, with up to 84 percent suffering borderline or poor nutrition according to the UN.
In the developed world during the last generation, increases in productivity may have increased
aggregate per capita income, but have not increased either median incomes or leisure appreciably.
The rise in
disposable per capita income has also been weaker, inching up just 0.6 percent annually in the last five years, compared with almost 2 percent from 1993 to 2008.
Hence the destruction of rural communities does not count against the gain in
per capita income achieved by reducing the number of persons living on the land while producing the same quantity of agricultural products.
In terms of virtually every index,
whether per capita income, freedom of movement or otherwise, the lives of ordinary Palestinians have gotten worse since the current «peace process» began in 1991.
If federal officials instead used the same formula for Puerto Rico as used for the states — which takes into
account per capita income — then Puerto Rico would receive closer to 83 percent of its Medicaid dollars from the federal government.
A statement signed by the Communications Minister, Dr Omane Boamah, shows that Ghana's
current per capita income is also higher than that of Cote d'Ivoire (US$ 1,314.7), Senegal (US$ 913.0) and Kenya (US$ 1,338.5).
Phrases with «per capita income»