Title: The poverty of nations /
Authors: Tata, Robert J.
Publisher: University Press of America,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Poverty; Poverty Statistics.; Quality of life; Quality of life Statistics.; Developing countries Economic conditions.
Abstract: 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.
Contents: 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.