Justifying the Use of GDP Per Capita
An international development agency is tasked with tracking the economic progress of a developing nation over a 20-year period. They choose to primarily monitor the change in the nation's real GDP per capita. Explain why this is a suitable metric for their specific objective of tracking changes in average income, despite its known limitations as a measure of overall well-being.
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