June 16, 2015.
In China, GDP per capita and household consumption increased fourfold between the years 1990 and 2005, and life expectancy climbed to 75.3 years from 67 years in 1980. Carol Graham in her post on Brookings Institutions explores why life satisfaction levels plummeted during the same period.
June 27, 2015.
For much of this century Latin America saw robust economic growth, a big fall in poverty and a swelling of the middle classes. Now the good times are over. The IMF expects growth of just 0.9% in 2015, which would be the fifth successive year of deceleration in the region. The Economist suggest that Latin America should find a new formula for growth after the commodity boom triggered by the industrialization of China. For more information see two posts:
– “Latin America. The loss of El Dorado” Read More
– “Latin America’s economies. The lessons of stagnation” Read More
“Make no mistake: education presumably does raise productivity. But to say that education is your growth strategy means that you are giving up on everyone that has already gone through the school system…”
By Ricardo Hausmann
Jun 1 2015
via Does better education really drive economic growth? – Agenda – The World Economic Forum.
