Real income and then reality

Illusion
Notwithstanding the energy and miscellany of programmes it trots out each year, the administration, like other governments, simplifies its achievements by showing how gross domestic product (GDP) has changed from one year to the next.  That figure is usually broken down into per capita income to show the Guyanese people how well the country is doing.  That per capita income says how much money each person has received as a result of the goods and services that were produced and sold in and out of the country.