oh good. now we are thinking about individual countries their histories and lessons that they can offer. Amartya Sen/Jean Dreze introduced me to this way of thinking in their book Hunger and Public Action, their latest “An Uncertain Glory: India and its contradictions” is good too.
Glad you brought up HDI which consists of three parts Education, Life Expectancy and Income.
In South Africa Education as you noted is up, Income is basically flat, Life Expectancy on the other hand in back to 1993 levels after crashing hard due to he AIDS crisis. South Africa given the history of apartheid should be analyzed as two populations 1) White 2) Blacks + others. Unfortunately I don’t have the disaggregated data for those groups.
OTOH, there are countries with very little increase in time spent in school which have seen huge increases in HDI.
Care to share the list? Oil (or resource) wealth is one way HDI increases without any real change in people’s lives. I discount that kind of HDI improvements.
But my point was that your blanket statement about there being no countries which implemented widespread K-12 education and didn’t have huge welfare gains
I wrote that to be slightly provocative, can we find one country that is an exception it’s possible (I have been looking and haven’t found one). The fundamental point being that when we look at countries and their history we find that education levels explain life expectancy. This can be seen from China (pre-reform 1979), Taiwan, South Korea, Jamaica, Sri Lanka, Kerala, Mauritius, Cuba etc..
Easterlin Paradox can be explained by Education levels
oh good. now we are thinking about individual countries their histories and lessons that they can offer. Amartya Sen/Jean Dreze introduced me to this way of thinking in their book Hunger and Public Action, their latest “An Uncertain Glory: India and its contradictions” is good too.
Glad you brought up HDI which consists of three parts Education, Life Expectancy and Income.
In South Africa Education as you noted is up, Income is basically flat, Life Expectancy on the other hand in back to 1993 levels after crashing hard due to he AIDS crisis. South Africa given the history of apartheid should be analyzed as two populations 1) White 2) Blacks + others. Unfortunately I don’t have the disaggregated data for those groups.
Care to share the list? Oil (or resource) wealth is one way HDI increases without any real change in people’s lives. I discount that kind of HDI improvements.
Relevant latest data on HDI
http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/hdro_statistical_data_table7_15.pdf
I wrote that to be slightly provocative, can we find one country that is an exception it’s possible (I have been looking and haven’t found one). The fundamental point being that when we look at countries and their history we find that education levels explain life expectancy. This can be seen from China (pre-reform 1979), Taiwan, South Korea, Jamaica, Sri Lanka, Kerala, Mauritius, Cuba etc..
Easterlin Paradox can be explained by Education levels
Education and Happiness: a Further Explanation to the Easterlin Paradox?