Human Development Index

[teamnelson]

Seems to be some interest in where the US stands in the world today. Lots of talk about "nation" and "economy." The UN uses the following model to rank the countries of the world (not saying the UN is correct, just pointing out their system). What do you think?

The Human Development Index (HDI) is an index used to rank countries by level of "human development", which usually also implies whether a country is developed, developing, or underdeveloped. The origins of the HDI are to be found in the United Nations Development Programme's (UNDP) Human Development Reports (HDRs). These were launched by Mahbub ul Haq in 1990 and had the explicit purpose: ‘‘to shift the focus of development economics from national income accounting to people centered policies.’’

The HDI combines three dimensions:
1. Life expectancy at birth, as an index of population health and longevity
2. Knowledge and education, as measured by the adult literacy rate (with two-thirds weighting) and the combined primary, secondary, and tertiary gross enrollment ratio (with one-third weighting).
3. Standard of living, as measured by the natural logarithm of gross domestic product per capita at purchasing power parity.

For reference the US is 13th in the world, down from 12th in 2008. Norway, Australia, Iceland lead the way; we fall below canada and france and japan ... and even ireland.

[Elijah Gunn]

Well TN, if enough people start following what's in your signature line this HDI thing will take care of itself.

[briarpatch]

We should rank as undeveloped. All you have to do is look at the leader of Nation to see how it is doing.

[Cabin4]

The UN is run by a bunch of self serving internationalists hell-bent on a one world government as their end game. At the core of all these studies and related output is always, targeted at breaking down the sovereignty of individual nations. It is the common thread that binds all UN actions. Given this, who cares about what this worthless organization wants or does? They have no credibility, no authority here and they should be forced to find a new home. The only reason they are here in the US is because we are the grand prize that needs our sovereignty destroyed in order to advance their cause at greater speed. Being on our land gives them a better chance to penetrate the one they have to beat down the most.

The UN is the most evil organization on this planet. They are far worse than any terrorist group or rouge nation. At least these enemies admit they want to destroy the US.

[magooch]

C4, I think you've pretty well nailed it.  We could talk about the last paragraph, but I'm with you.

[Cabin4]

TM7,
No question, the UN has it's strong supporters in our government and from millions of our citizens.

[Oldshooter]

They(UN) does not consider (US) undeveloped, wish to hell they did, maybe they would leave and "WE" would quit supporting the world and the UN.

[slim rem 7]

hmm ..we pay 54%..then its time china took about 50 of that 54 percent on..
 then we use what we were giving to the u.n. to give small buisiness,, tax breaks..
 i ran a small buisiness.. with the number of regulations an whatever,,it takes a real good buisiness man to pull it off..i was pretty good at fixing things ..not so good ,when it came to the RED tape of buisiness management..
 now i understand the irs is targeting small buisiness more this year,,in auditing..
that just may,, put many, out of buisiness....another obama idea id suspect..
 the man won t be satisfied,, until hes totally taken down anyone that even resist big brothers govt control..jmo.slim