From: Adam Flinton 

George Sherwood wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 15:00:06 -0400, Gary Wiltshire wrote:
>
>
>>Yup, increasing your income from $1/week to $2/week is a 100% increase.
>>I'd be more interested in seeing, I forget the acronym, GDP per capita or
>>per worker.
>
>
> This Swedish company's report from about a year ago that tries to make
> some comparisons such as that.  Not sure how many of the numbers still
> hold today, but it opens up very interestingly:
>
>  If the European Union were a state in the USA it would belong to the
>  poorest group of states. France, Italy, Great Britain and Germany have
>  lower GDP per capita than all but four of the states in the United
>  States. In fact, GDP per capita is lower in the vast majority of the
>  EU-countries (EU 15) than in most of the individual American states.
>
> http://www.timbro.com/euvsusa/
>
> George


http://www.oecd.org/document/15/0,2340,en_2649_34347_34256911_1_1_1_1,00.html


Adam

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