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Comparing Wealth Of Real Per Capita GDP And US

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The graph of Real Per capita GDP shows an even more dramatic drop. Comparing the peak and trough, we find that approximately each American lost $3,000 a year during this recession.

With a short lag, the unemployment rate rose from 4.4% in March 2007 to 10% in October 2009. Holding the labor force constant, such an increase would imply a drop in employment of roughly 5% or about 1 out of 20 people losing their jobs during this period.
Figure 7: Unemployment Rate, U.S., 1999: M1O2015: M8 Source: US. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Some academics, such as Calomiris (2008) from Columbia Business School and Representative Jim Leach claimed that the repeal of the GlassCSteagall Act actually helped to stabilize the economy and even reduced the loss …show more content…

Chinese people must be quite excited to see the two charts. However, the real GDP and its growth rate may reasonably reflect the two countries’ economy but is not a proxy for the quality of life. To make that comparison, we have to take into account the respective population and therefore analyze per capita GDP, or the Wealth of a Nation.
Figure 10: Real Per Capita GDP, U.S. and China, Difference, 1960O2010, 2005 U.S. Dollars

Source: United States: World Bank. China: University of Pennsylvania.

From Figure 10, it is clear that the gap kept increasing despite the reform until 2007, when the Great Recession almost destroyed the United States financial system. Figure 11: Real Per Capita GDP Growth Rate Gap between U.S. and China, 1961O2009

Source: Ibid.

The gap graph in Figure 11 shows that China has been catching up recently, as the rate gap is negative. But China needs to continue to grow even faster in order to catch up with the United States standard of living.

2. What are the …show more content…

There were some unique characteristics as part of the reform which helped it succeed. These included its gradual approach and the relative stability within China’s socialist regime. By contrast, the United States is simply at a different stage of development. An advanced economy will frequently suffer from disruptions in growth either caused by oil price shocks, monetary contractions, or, most recently, loose regulation resulting in a financial crisis. Therefore effective monetary and fiscal policies will be necessary for the country to stay on an upward trajectory.
Although the total size of China’s economy has grown at an astonishing pace, being the second largest economy in the world by now, its real GDP per capita does not tell the same story. China is still quite far behind most developed countries by this measure. The other problem facing both countries now is growing income

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