The poverty of nations
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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, ©2012. |
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| Online Access: | Available in ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete. |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Tata, Robert J. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The poverty of nations |h [electronic resource] / |c Robert J. Tata. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Lanham, Md. : |b University Press of America, |c ©2012. | |
| 500 | |a "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. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Human well-being : an analytical system -- The physical system -- The social system -- The economic system -- The political system -- Overall human well-being -- World physical systems, status and trends -- World social systems, status and trends -- World economic systems, status and trends -- World political systems, status and trends -- World human well-being, status and trends -- Comparison of 4 systems index with other indicators of human well-being -- Conclusions : human well-being around the world -- Statistical appendix. | |
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Poverty. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Poverty |v Statistics. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Quality of life. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Quality of life |v Statistics. | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Economic history. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00901974 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Poverty. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01074093 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Quality of life. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01085009 | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Developing countries |x Economic conditions. | |
| 651 | 7 | |a Developing countries. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01242969 | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Statistics. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01423727 | |
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