6. In the text, when we examined statistics from a wide range of Third World countries, we found no direct relationship (positive or negative) between a country's level of GNP, GNP per capita, and rate of economic growth and its extent of absolute poverty or the degree of equality in its distribution of income. Assuming that these data are indeed correct, what do they tell us about the importance of the character of a nation's growth process, and about its institutional structure?