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.

Emerging markets’ spendings to growth

http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11488749

Economics focus

Building BRICs of growth

Jun 5th 2008

Record spending on infrastructure will help to sustain rapid growth in emerging economies

THE biggest investment boom in history is under way. Over half of the world’s infrastructure investment is now taking place in emerging economies, where sales of excavators have risen more than fivefold since 2000. In total, emerging economies are likely to spend an estimated $1.2 trillion on roads, railways, electricity, telecommunications and other projects this year, equivalent to 6% of their combined GDPs—twice the average infrastructure-investment ratio in developed economies. Largely as a result, total fixed investment in emerging economies could increase by a staggering 16% in real terms this year, according to HSBC, whereas in rich economies it is forecast to be flat. Such investment will help support economic growth this year as America’s economy stalls—and for many years to come…