Robert J. Tata

The Poverty of Nations (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 116
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761891420
• Artikelnr.: 75143254

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 Human Well-Being: An Analytical System
Chapter 2 The Physical System
Chapter 3 The Social System
Chapter 4 The Economic System
Chapter 5 The Political System
Chapter 6 Overall Human Well-Being
Chapter 7 World Physical Systems, Status and Trends
Chapter 8 World Social Systems, Status and Trends
Chapter 9 World Economic Systems, Status and Trends
Chapter 10 World Political Systems, Status and Trends
Chapter 11 World Human Well-Being, Status and Trends
Chapter 12 Comparison of 4 Systems Index With Other Indicators of Human
Well-Being
Chapter 13 Conclusions: Human Well-Being Around the World
Statistical Appendix
Bibliography