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If official figures overstated the growth of banking output in the UK in the recent boom, does this mean that GDP … other industry or industries must have been understated, leaving GDP relatively unaffected. The reason is that the Office … for National Statistics measures the real growth of GDP primarily from the expenditure side. And from the expenditure side …
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Should raising the growth rate of GDP per capita be a policy goal of governments in general, and of the British … government in particular? Many people would say no, for the following reasons: 1) GDP is hopelessly flawed as a measure of … welfare; 2) Growing GDP is pointless since most people don’t benefit; 3) Raising GDP per capita is pointless as it doesn …
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I set out a new method for estimating true (Konüs) PPPs. Household consumption per head deflated by these PPPs answers the question: by how much must the average expenditure per head of poor country A be increased to enable the typical inhabitant of A to enjoy the same utility level as the...
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decline in real GDP in recent years were overly optimistic. The same entities predict that real GDP will fall by 4 …
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How much would output increase if underdeveloped economies were to increase their levels of schooling? We contribute to the development accounting literature by describing a nonparametric upper bound on the increase in output that can be generated by more schooling. The advantage of our approach...
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been over 8% of GDP and has therefore been a contributing factor to Greece’s debt crisis and any effect this has had on the …
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Do other peoples’ incomes reduce the happiness which people in advanced countries experience from any given income? And does this help to explain why in the U.S., Germany and some other advanced countries, happiness has been constant for many decades? The answer to both questions is ‘Yes’....
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