comparison on macro economic levels
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There's an excellent engine at the CIA website to sort this information -- and much more.
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You need to ask a more specific answer.  Do you mean area or economic size?  Please ask again, but clearly state your actual question.
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I'm in a economics class too, and they are things that are used to predict if the economy is going into a period of contraction or growth. Some examples are the stock market, the real GDP, prices, and sales.
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None....they are both for income redistribution!
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Yes.  Interest rates, taxes (on gasoline or foreign goods, for example), tax cuts, treasury buybacks, central bank dealings in foreign currency and gold, etc.  The politicians have a lot of tools.  Better to get a book on macroeconomics and read to your heart's content.
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yes...http://www.puertoricowow.com/html/cbarchivesdetail.asp?id=14977&highlight=economy
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The 2 are not compatible. Know your economics. In high job rate and income areas, that means the standard of living is high and therefore the cost of living is likewise. It is like taxes, the more you earn, the more you pay, and the opposite, the less you earn, the less you pay.Look for a state where jobs are in great demand by employers willing to pay high wages for workers and is at the beginning a potential boom cycle that costs to live have not as yet risen.
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This is a good statistic which shows US states ranked of farm productivity:\n\nhttp://www.statemaster.com/graph/eco_gsp_cha_qua_ind_cro_and_ani_pro_far-indexes-crop-animal-production-farms\n\n\nFor more information, surf around this site for other economic indicators related to farming, or try the USDA website at:\n\nhttp://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usdahome
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I think that you can find most of that at http://www.nationmaster.com/. I use it when I need economic and energy statistics by country. I wish you luck finding your data!
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Here is an overall chart:
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You could use the U.S. auto industry versus the Asian or more specifically the Japanese auto industry as a good example.  Unions versus non-union factory.  The U.S. has to price their autos higher to recoup the higher wage costs while the Japapense markets can price their autos lower since they don't have union shops, thus lower wage costs.
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Oh heck no! Our economy is doing better than it ever did under Clinton, Bush1, or Reagan. Unemployment is low, housing is up...darlin, the economy is cruising right on along. Gas prices are up and it causes some consumer goods to rise, that's all.
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Cost of living, definitely.  Inflation.  Interest rates.  Unemployment rates.
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Do a search for literacy rates and/or national literacy rates. I've had to find the same info once and I got everything I needed and more. If you look a little bit, You can find comparisons of literacy rates to economic levels per nation.
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The two main branches of economics are microeconomics and macroeconomics. Microeconomics looks at the behavior of what are called 'individual actors' (an individual, a household, a business or even groups of those). Microeconomics looks at prices of things and of services. It wants to help people decide how to divide society's resources.
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Try the World Bank of the Federal Reserve
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You'd probably also need to consider two other factors, which are labor force growth and inflation.  If you assume that both are 0%, then if GDP growth = productivity growth, unemployment rate (and really total employment) would stay constant