The Solow model and relative country perfomance: Consider the real world data for South Korea and South Africa for the year 2000. Capital/Worker (K/N) and GDP/Worker (Y/N) are expressed in 2000 dollars.
|
Pop. Growth
|
Savings Rate
|
Capital/Worker
|
GDP/Worker
|
|
n
|
s
|
k
|
y
|
SK
|
.0106
|
.325
|
91495
|
33202
|
SA
|
.01675
|
.1796
|
22704
|
20315
|
Explain how much of the difference is accounted for by the population growth rate and how much is due to a different saving behavior?