[lbo-talk] Israel's Roaring Economy

[Jonathan Nitzan]

The most recent official statistics for Israeli per capita growth rates 
the ones you cite. The linked chart traces Israeli per capita growth 
till 2002, smoothed as a 10-year moving average. If you were to add the 
data for 2003-2006 and compute the 10-year moving average, the average 
for the 1997-2006 would come to 1%. 
http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/228/05/20070401_bn_the_rockefeller_boys_figure.jpg. 

According to the World Bank, the global average for 1996-2005 (last 
year) was 1.7%

Jonathan

On Jun 20, 2007, at 1:57 AM, Jonathan Nitzan wrote:

According to the IMF, Israeli GDP growth has averaged 5% since 2004. 
That's not China, but it's still pretty strong. Population is growing 
about 2% a year, so per capita, it's around 3%. Not the top of the 
world, but highly respectable. Is this measurement somehow misleading?

Doug

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