The poverty of nations

The poverty of nations

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This study explores the status and trends in human well-being as it varies worldwide. Human well-being comes from a nation's physical, social, economic, and political macro systems. A metric of descriptive statistics is built for each, and then aggregated into one metric to gauge the level in e...

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Author / Creator: Tata, Robert J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Imprint: Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, ©2012.
Subjects:
Poverty.
Poverty > Statistics.
Quality of life.
Quality of life > Statistics.
Economic history.
Developing countries > Economic conditions.
Developing countries.
Statistics.
Online Access:Available in ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete.
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Summary:This study explores the status and trends in human well-being as it varies worldwide. Human well-being comes from a nation's physical, social, economic, and political macro systems. A metric of descriptive statistics is built for each, and then aggregated into one metric to gauge the level in each nation.

The Poverty of Nations is a study about the status and trends in human well-being as it varies from nation to nation worldwide. A basic premise is that human well-being comes from a nation's physical, social, economic, and political macro systems. A metric of descriptive statistics is built for each system, and then it is aggregated into one metric to gauge the level of human well-being in each nation. The metric describes human well-being in 1960 and 2010 to seek an understanding of the status and trend of human well-being in 151 of the world's nations. Which nations are meeting the United Nation's Millennium Development goals, and which are not?

Item Description:"This book seeks to gauge how well or how poorly the world's nations are doing in their attempts to achieve human well-being"--Page x.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780761859437 (online)
9781282134096 (online)
Author Notes:

Robert J. Tata is professor emeritus from the Department of Geography and Geology at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. An original member of the Florida Atlantic University faculty, Tata has studied, researched, taught, traveled, and written about the economic development of Latin America for more than fifty years.


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