Poverty of Nations

By Robert J. Tata

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?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076185942X
• ISBN13: 9780761859420
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.1"
• Age Range: All ages
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher