HIn the last few days I have showed that the global competition for GDP growth has not been very competitive. The countries in 'division 1' of the global growth game in 1990 tended to also be in division 1 in 2016. They dominated global production and the growth in global production between 1990 and 2016.
Interestingly, I find the same happening when looking at the human development index--HDI--which measures things like education and health development in a country.
The countries that were in the top 20% in 2000 had over 90% chance of being in the top 20% in 2015.
Consider this table, where we see the top 3 in this division stayed the same between 1990 and 2016, there was some churning in lower positions, some countries dropped out of the top division (red on the left hand side) and few rose into this division (green on the right hand side).
Why does the matter? Well, it shows again that the relative position of countries in the development league has been pretty static--at least at the top of the league. It is not a tremendously competitive league...
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