Economist: Ass Loon Lowest Productivity PeeM in the World!

[makapaaa]

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Leaders of the fee world
How much a country's leader is paid compared to GDP per person

Jul 5th 2010
http://www.economist.com/node/16525240?story_id=16525240&fsrc=rss
ON MONDAY July 5th Raila Odinga, Kenya's prime minister, rejected the pay increase he was awarded by the country's parliament last week. MPs had granted Mr Odinga a rise to nearly $430,000 a year, while giving themselves a 25% increase to $161,000. This boost would place Mr Odinga among the highest-paid political leaders in the world. More worryingly, his salary would be some 240 times greater than the country's GDP per person (measured on a purchasing-power parity basis). Lee Hsien Loong, the prime minister of Singapore, tops our list of selected leaders' salaries. He is paid more than 40 times the city-state’s GDP per person. At the other end of the scale, Manmohan Singh, the prime minister of India, reaffirms his reputation for saintliness by taking a modest sum from Indian taxpayers.

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Are you saying that I am the most unproductive PeeM in the world? Do I really look like one? *chey*​

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[Brightkid]

At the other end of the scale, Manmohan Singh, the prime minister of India, reaffirms his reputation for saintliness by taking a modest sum from Indian taxpayers.

This is one FT we would very much welcome to take over the vacant job....opps, forgot there is currently someone sitting there, just that we hardly have chance to know he existed unless there is taichi excercise going on.

 

[johnny333]

Article makes no mention of the added cost of the PM's mentor, LKY , who probably makes more than PM

 

[Kuailan]

Article makes no mention of the added cost of the PM's mentor, LKY , who probably makes more than PM

If you add MP, PM, M, MM, SM total salary it will blow your mind.
Nobody and nowhere in the world can beat our total salary! I am
very proud!

 

[@rmadill0]

F**k the economist to release this info. Ah Loong sure want to claim back the top spot from Kenya. That's it. Sure pay increase soon.

 

[johnny333]

If you add MP, PM, M, MM, SM total salary it will blow your mind.
Nobody and nowhere in the world can beat our total salary! I am
very proud!

Obviously the pay isn't enough, these brilliant MPs are still caught off guard

 

[aangsc]

Article makes no mention of the added cost of the PM's mentor, LKY , who probably makes more than PM

I like to see father , sons and in-laws $$$ all added up.

 

[red amoeba]

we are really like Real Madrid - full of galaticos....and also wear white...

 

[Rogue Trader]

shiok ah! 2 million to play taichi!

 

[johnny333]

I like to see father , sons and in-laws $$$ all added up.

I doubt we'll everr know if it's 9 million, 10, 15, 20,.. Since it's a state secret it must be an obscenely high figure that would catch the citizens "off-guard"