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Human Development and the Path to Freedom
1870 to the Present
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About this book
How has human development evolved during the last 150 years of globalization and economic growth? How has human development been distributed across countries? How do developing countries compare to developed countries? Do social systems matter for wellbeing? Are there differences in the performance of developing regions over time? Employing a capabilities approach, Human Development and the Path to Freedom addresses these key questions in the context of modern economic growth and globalization from c.1870 to the present. Leandro Prados de la Escosura shows that health, access to knowledge, standards of living, and civil and political freedom can substitute for GDP per head as more accurate measures of our wellbeing.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Series information
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I An Aggregate View
- Part II The OECD and the Rest
- Postscript
- Appendix A The Augmented Human Development Index: Sources and Procedures
- Appendix B Alternative Indices of Augmented Human Development and Their Drivers
- Appendix C International Inequality
- Appendix D Augmented Human Development Index in World Regions
- Appendix E Latin America
- Notes
- References
- Index