As the OECD's second highest polluter per capita, you would think we would feel morally obliged to be at the forefront of instigating policy changes.
But now, he said, almost everyone has a car, and "if you go from one vehicle per capita to two vehicles per capita you don't increase your vehicle miles traveled".
"As you come here and you see the G.D.P. per capita, for instance, in Israel which is about $21,000, and compare that with the G.D.P. per capita just across the areas managed by the Palestinian Authority, which is more like $10,000 per capita, you notice such a dramatically stark difference in economic vitality," he said.
He added, "As you come here and you see the G.D.P. per capita, for instance, in Israel, which is about $21,000, and compare that with the G.D.P. per capita just across the areas managed by the Palestinian Authority, which is more like $10,000 per capita, you notice such a dramatically stark difference in economic vitality.
Without ever having to view yawn-inducing numbers on gross domestic product per capita, you can watch some countries, like the United States, rapidly growing healthier and wealthier before your eyes while smaller bubbles, for countries like Congo, rise on the life expectancy axis even as they dip on the income line.
"As you come here and you see the GDP per capita, for instance, in Israel which is about $21,000, and compare that with the GDP per capita just across the areas managed by the Palestinian Authority, which is more like $10,000 per capita, you notice such a dramatically stark difference in economic vitality," Romney said.
You can calculate the number of divorces per capita if you wish, but it can be a bit misleading if you use it to understand what happens to marriages.
Vermont is the state with the most breweries per capita -- meaning you can visit lots of them without going too far.
However, it fails to mention that this success is partly won by the efforts of a disenfranchised minority: Hong Kong's 230,000 domestic helpers.Mostly female and Indonesian or Filipina, they care for homes, children and elderly relatives whilst both householders work, thus enabling the generation of some of the high per-capita GDP you cite.
I guess you could make the argument that for the sake of maximizing a city's (or country's) efficiency or per-capita income, you should make sure that its workforce is as healthy as possible and not getting drunk so much that it is causing society-wide problems (this is actually happening in Russia).
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