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Professor Nancy Qian wants to direct attention to China’s per capita GDP, not just its total GDP. Looking at more than that one number of overall growth reveals that China’s population is still quite poor, she argues. Credit: Y Denali, Creative Commons
CHICAGO – Economic reporting about China focuses far too much on total GDP and not enough on per capita GDP, which is the more revealing indicator. And this skewed coverage has important implications, because the two indicators paint significantly different pictures of China’s current economic and political situation. They also focus our attention on different issues.
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