Vietnam and Comparisons

GDP, Stock Markets, and Income

Source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Economic_Outlook

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita

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This is a weekend without any test and project, so I spend some enjoyable-lazy time to play around with numbers and make a graph. I always love graphing because it’s simply worth more than thousand words.

Most of stock markets outperformed GDP or nation’s incomes. So, in my opinion, this finance crisis will lead to more troubles and longer recovery of economies.

Yet, it’s not in a case of Vietnam.

China’s inflation

China

Source: http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11920640

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Economics focus

Inflated claims

Why China is not to blame for the surge in global inflation

MANY people in America and Europe think that the recent surge in inflation, like almost everything else these days, is “made in China”. For a number of years, cheap Chinese goods helped to reduce prices in rich economies, but more recently wages and prices have surged in China. On top of this, the hungry dragon’s insatiable appetite for food, energy and other raw materials has given cartoonists an emotive image for the surge in global commodity prices. As a result, it is claimed, China is no longer exporting deflation to the rich world, but inflation.

Will BRIC conquer the world ?

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/4390/

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Stuart Simpson

Thursday 21 February 2008

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Essay: We should celebrate the spread of wealth and modernity in the developing world, while recognising that a great shift in global power is not imminent.

The continued rise of the emerging economies, particularly India and China, is never far from the headlines. What impact these economies will have on the twenty-first century is the subject of much debate, with the possibility of a shift in global political power a recurring theme. It is often assumed that the emerging economies are following the same path to development that the established economic powers did – but this assumption is worth questioning.

GDP (PPP) of Asia

http://www.iea.org/Textbase/country/maps/asia/gdp_ppp.htm

IEA – International Energy Agency

GDP (PPP): Gross Domestic Product calculated using Purchasing Power Parities.

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Gross Domestic Product [2007]	Gross Domestic Product [2050]
Rank   Country   GDP (millions of USD)   1 United States 13,843,825 2 Japan 4,383,762 3 Germany 3,322,147 4 China 3,250,827 5 United Kingdom 2,772,570 6 France 2,560,255 7 Italy 2,104,666 8 Spain 1,438,959 9 Canada 1,432,140 10 Brazil 1,313,590 11 Russia 1,289,582 12 India 1,098,945 13 South Korea 957,053 14 Australia 908,826 15 Mexico 893,365	Rank   Country   GDP (millions of USD)   1 China 78,000,000 2 United States 38,500,000 3 India 37,600,000 4 Brazil 11,300,000 5 Russia 9,340,000 6 Mexico 8,580,000 7 Indonesia 7,010,000 8 Japan 6,670,000 9 United Kingdom 5,130,000 10 Germany 5,020,000 11 Nigeria 4,640,000 12 France 4,590,000 13 South Korea 4,080,000 14 Turkey 3,940,000 15 Vietnam 3,600,000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRIC

IBM and contribution of BRIC

http://yahoo.brand.edgar-online.com/EFX_dll/EDGARpro.dll?FetchFilingHTML1?SessionID=n4qdWLAZbbqzsfh&ID=5189961

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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15 (d)

OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report:  May 17, 2007

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION