All Discussions Tagged 'human' - TBD2024-03-29T09:06:11Zhttp://teebeedee.ning.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=human&feed=yes&xn_auth=noHuman Development Index - Low for the USAtag:teebeedee.ning.com,2010-03-28:1991841:Topic:8928102010-03-28T11:29:16.551ZMaricel Evascohttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/MaricelEvasco
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Though I am not surprised at the ranking, I'd like to know what dominating factors contribute to our lower ranking on the global Human Development Index scale.</span><br></br><br></br><br></br>The 2009 report was released on October 5, 2009, and covers the period
up to 2007. It was titled "Overcoming barriers: Human mobility and<br />
development". The top countries by HDI were grouped in a new category<br />
called "Very High Human Development". The report refers to these<br />
countries as…
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Though I am not surprised at the ranking, I'd like to know what dominating factors contribute to our lower ranking on the global Human Development Index scale.</span><br/><br/><br/>The 2009 report was released on October 5, 2009, and covers the period
up to 2007. It was titled "Overcoming barriers: Human mobility and<br />
development". The top countries by HDI were grouped in a new category<br />
called "Very High Human Development". The report refers to these<br />
countries as "developed countries".<br/><br/><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index</a><br/><p style="text-align: left;"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2059586534?profile=original" alt=""/></p>
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<p style="font-weight: bold;">The HDI combines three dimensions:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy" title="Life expectancy">Life expectancy</a> at birth, as an index of population
health and longevity</li>
<li>Knowledge and education, as measured by the adult <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy" title="Literacy">literacy</a> rate (with two-thirds weighting) and the combined primary, secondary,
and tertiary <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_enrollment_ratio" title="Gross <br /">enrollment ratio" class="mw-redirect"">gross enrollment ratio</a> (with<br />
one-third weighting).</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_of_living" title="Standard of living">Standard of living</a>, as measured by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_logarithm" title="Natural logarithm">natural logarithm</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_domestic_product" title="Gross <br /">domestic product"">gross domestic product</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_capita" title="Per capita">per
capita</a> at purchasing power parity.</li>
</ul>
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<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index#cite_note-4"></a></sup>