Transcription of TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT REPORT, 2006 - UNCTAD
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TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT REPORT, 2006 - UNCTAD
UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENTGENEVATRADE AND DEVELOPMENTREPORT, 2006 UNITED NATIONSNew York and Geneva, 2006 Chapter VNATIONAL POLICIES IN SUPPORTOF PRODUCTIVE DYNAMISMUNCTAD/TDR/ 2006 National Policies in Support of Productive Dynamism149 The widening gap in relative income levelsbetween rich and poor countries has been a majortrend in the world economy over the past 250 one estimate, the difference in per capita in-come between the richest and the poorest countryin the world was about 5:1 before the IndustrialRevolution; today this difference has increased to400:1 (Landes, 1998). While the exactitude of thesenumbers is debatable, there can be little doubt thatthe world economy has been on a long-term pathof substantial and growing divergence in relativeproductivity levels and living standards, both be-tween developed and developing countries andamong developing countries slow per capita income growth in de-veloping countries has left millions of people inpoverty.
150 Trade and Development Report, 2006 in these Asian developing countries, particularly in China, has even succeeded in pulling along some of the lagging economies in Latin America
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