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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (52060)	7/4/2009 3:30:20 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218090

Return to natural size means the inflated figures will be cut down to size. I a major country produces a million packs of Marlboro cigarettes and sell a million packs at 85 cents, it adds to the GDP USD850.000. 100 million people I another country produces the exact same million packs of Marlboro and sell them for USD5, it is USD5 million added to that country GDP. Now divide this 5 million dollars for the population of this minnow country of 10 million people and you will see that the citizen of this country is reach and the country above, is poor. If you look to a major country, they are paying doctors, drugs, printing books, building schools and paying teachers salaries because they have a majority of the population below 15 years of age. If you look to minnow country, it has the majority of its population at 25 years of age and they are bying beer, cigarettes and producing. That is why minnow countries within the demographic window punch way above their weight. Now the poor major countries have a huge population within the 25 year old bracket. Minnows have a whole load of old people to take care of. Drugs, doctors, accidents sickness low productivity weird ideas and the whole lot. The major countries are attracting a lot of capital because now they are what the minnows were in the 60s. And they are building houses and buying cars. Money moves out and is now seeking the markets of those major countries. What we are seeing is the emergence of a growth that make the minnows pale in comparison.