[ExI] The Dogs of Immortality

Stathis Papaioannou stathisp at gmail.com
Sat Jul 19 06:53:12 UTC 2008


2008/7/18 Lee Corbin <lcorbin at rawbw.com>:

> But it takes so long!  So long to ferret out the real cause and
> effect.  Consider that all the western European countries have
> lagged the U.S. in real economic growth for decades.

Here are some average yearly GDP growth figures for various countries
and regions in the period 1970-2007:

(taken from http://www.swivel.com/data_sets/show/1004019)

World - 3.29%
North America - 3.18%
South America - 3.39%
Sub-Saharan Africa - 3.13%
North Africa - 4.62%
US - 3.15%
Canada - 3.39%
Europe - 2.49%
EU 15 - 2.48%
UK - 2.43%
France - 2.59%
Italy - 2.34%
Greece - 3.00%
Norway - 3.18%
Iceland - 3.93%
Sweden - 2.38%
Spain - 3.28%
Ireland - 5.25%
Finland - 3.11%
Switzerland - 1.64%
Cyprus - 6.11%
Japan - 3.31%
South Korea - 7.11%
Hong Kong - 6.69%
China - 9.39%
India - 5.40%
Australia - 3.34%
New Zealand - 2.36%

I can't really see a pattern here. Why should stable, low-taxing,
pro-business, small Government Switzerland do so badly, for example?
Why should Ireland do so well? Why should Canada do better than the
US?



-- 
Stathis Papaioannou



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