> Rates of growth of GDP per capita, India:
>
> 1950-1980 1.1% per year
> 1980-1990 3.3% per year
> 1990-2000 4.2% per year
>
> At the pace of the last decade, India's real productivity is doubling
> every seventeen years (compared to a doubling time of 65 years before
> 1980).
>
> I can't help but think that a society with a per capita productive
> potential doubling every seventeen years will be able to achieve a
> *lot* more environmental protection and poverty reduction than one in
> which productivity increases are glacial.
>
>
> Brad DeLong
*************
Statistics never lie in your world do they? And how about the Ganges "health" in the
last 50 years; or is that just a Malthusian "residual"?
Ian
