Monday, July 29, 2013

The increasing share of developing countries in world GDP

In a previous post I noted the rise in the share of South-South trade. Below is the expansion of developing countries' share in total world GDP (source here).
The expansion reflects to a great extent the rising share of China. At PPP the share of developing countries is now at around 50%.
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