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...Asian country best positioned to pull through the global downturn. The economy is still on track to grow 8% this year even as its exports to the U.S. slacken, and Beijing's coming membership in the WTO will require market reforms that by some estimates will boost GDP...
...produce each dollar of value in the economy than it did at the time of the last oil shocks. Says John Femly, chief economist at the American Petroleum Institute: "We've become much more efficient in our use of energy." In 1981, expenditure on oil amounted to 8% of GDP; by 2000, the figure had dropped to just 2.5%. Better-insulated homes and businesses, more efficient appliances and assembly lines and even automobiles--notwithstanding our enduring passion for SUVs--have reduced the economy's vulnerability to energy shocks...
...capita GDP in Afghanistan...
...billion GDP of Peru...
...Afghanistan was in a crisis well before the Sept. 11 attacks raised the prospect of U.S. military reprisals. After 23 years of war, Afghans are desperately poor?per capita GDP is estimated at $800, illiteracy is more than 70% and life expectancy for males is just under 47 years. The country has suffered drought for three years, food supplies have almost been exhausted and, under the Taliban, the economy has been reduced to little more than subsistence farming and smuggling...