Macroeconomics 11th Edition by Michael Parkin

Exercise 24

Economics in the News
Make Way for India-The Next China
China grows at around 9 percent a year, but its one-child policy will start to reduce the size of China's working-age population within the next 10 years. India, by contrast, will have an increasing working-age population for another generation at least.
a. Given the expected population changes, do you think China or India will have the greater economic growth rateWhy?
b. Would China's growth rate remain at 9 percent a year without the restriction on its population growth rate
c. India's population growth rate is 1.6 percent a year, and in 2005 its economic growth rate was 8 percent a year. China's population growth rate is 0.6 percent a year, and in 2005 its economic growth rate was 9 percent a year. In what year will real GDP per person double in each country