Re: per capita income
tintin wrote:The best measure to assesss a country's economic growth is per capita income at constant prices.
Q1 . what is "per capita income at constant prices" ?
can you give one example about what does it mean ?
Q2 . you know, there is another term called "per capita income at current prices "....what it this ?
its very confusing to understand the diffrence between the two . can you provide examples to know the difference.
thank you
"Per capita income at constant prices" would be measuring the per capita income against a set value. Typically this is done my using the value of money at a specific point in time.
The other term would be "Adjusted per capita income". This adjusts the per capita increases/decreases to account for things like inflation.
The 1st accounts for the actual raw monetary increase/decrease, the 2nd is useful for measuring the effectiveness of any increase/decrease.