Comments on: A civilization of regions

By: Razib Khan

Razib Khan — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 01:06:42 +0000

thanks!

By: John Jacobi

John Jacobi — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 01:03:34 +0000

I found some 2009 GDp stats here (right column): http://unidow.com/india%20home%20eng/statewise_gdp.html

Dont know how reliable it is though

By: Razib Khan

Razib Khan — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 06:22:40 +0000

I can’t believe you forgot the Maldives or is that country too small to fit into your analysis as Bhutan was?

a few dots in the ocean nepal and sri lanka were on the margins of acceptability really. states like UP are so huge. i kept the northeastern states in because they’re geographically non-trivial, and an interesting cultural “out group.”

I should have wrote this post earlier on the thread but is southern Italy really poorer than Portugal?

in 2006 it was. perhaps not now. i was struck that iberia had less inequality than i’d expected. italy a great deal. part of it is that rich parts of italy have high GDP values indeed, while catalonia not as extreme.

By: Razib Khan

Razib Khan — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 06:19:31 +0000

re: moldova. i was looking at EU data sets. moldova is not in the EU. specifically, i was looking at the “NUT 2″ region data.

By: Malik

Malik — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 05:17:20 +0000

Moldova is an eastern European country which is why Razib made it a point to state that southern Italy has one of the poorest economies of western Europe.

By: Alina-M

Alina-M — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 04:02:55 +0000

On Wikipedia (maybe not the most reliable source, but it has never failed me!) it says Moldova is the poorest part of Europe (by GDP per capita). But of course Italy is a good example here because of the massive poor/rich divide.

By: Malik

Malik — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 03:24:36 +0000

I should have wrote this post earlier on the thread but is southern Italy really poorer than Portugal?

By: yugan

yugan — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:59:06 +0000

Excellent stuff Razib. That must have taken a lot of effort on your part. Thanks.

By: Malik

Malik — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 11:04:57 +0000

Tut Tut, Razib… I can’t believe you forgot the Maldives or is that country too small to fit into your analysis as Bhutan was?

By: Oesubcontinent

Oesubcontinent — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 05:36:42 +0000

Your data just points to the obvious: the sooner South Asia becomes one common economic entity the better. India may think it is doing great, but as your wonderful compilation shows, India is doing great in parts and Sind, West Punjab, East Bengal, Sri Lanka and Nepal fit in quite well among the states of India. Of course this is not politically viable at this time. But how long must the current state go on? If Europe can have its EU – we ought to have a SAU. Perhaps that the only way the Afganistan, Burma and Kashmir problems will be solved. Economics uber alles.