The Globalization of Human WellBeing

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The Globalization of Human Well-Being

• Indur M. Goklany
• Independent Scholar
• E-mail igoklany_at_cox.net
• Based on a Policy Analysis piece published by the
  Cato Institute in 2002, available from
• http//www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-447es.html

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Cereal yield vs. income, 1961-1999
Source Based on data from World Bank (2001).
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Fig 2-2 Food supplies per cap vs. income,
1961-1997
Source Based on data from World Resources
Institute (2000).
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Malnutrition prevalence vs. income, 1987-1998
Source Based on data from World Bank (2001).
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Fig 2-7 Access to safe water vs. income 1970-1995
Source Based on data from World Bank (1999).
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Access to sanitation vs. income 1985-1995
Source Based on data from World Bank (1999).
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Health expenditures vs. income, 1990-1998
Source Based on data from World Bank (2002).
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Infant mortality vs. income, 1960-1999
Source Based on data from World Bank (2001).
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Life expectancy vs. income, 1960-1999
Source Based on data from World Bank (2001)
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Tertiary schooling vs. income, 1965-1996
Source Based on data from World Bank (2001).
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Child labor vs. income, 1960-1999
Source Based on data from World Bank (2001).
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Human well-being vs. wealth, 1990s
Source World Resources Institute (2000) World
Bank (2001).
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per capita income
Source World Bank (2003)
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Child labor ()
Source World Bank (2003)
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Gaps in child labor, relative to hi-income OECD
Source World Bank (2003)
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Life expectancy at birth (yrs)
Source World Bank (2003)
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Gap in life expectancy, relative to hi-income
OECD
Source World Bank (2003)
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Infant mortality
Source World Bank (2003)
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Gap in infant mortality, relative to hi-income
OECD
Source World Bank (2003)
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Cycle of Progress
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Figure 2-11 Global economic development,
1800-1999
Source Maddison (2001).
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Fig 2-1 Food supplies vs. time, 1936-1999
Source Goklany (1999), FAO (2002)
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Figure 2-10 Life expectancy, selected countries,
early 1950s-1999
Source World Resources Institute (2000) World
Bank (2001).
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Average income vs. economic freedom index
Source Gwartney et al. (2002).
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Human well-being vs. wealth, 1990s
Source World Resources Institute (2000) World
Bank (2001).
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Figure 2-16 Global economic freedom, 1975-2000
Source Gwartney and Lawson (2002).
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Figure 3-1 Global poverty, 1820-1992
Source Bourgignon and Morrisson (2001).
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Total fertility rate vs. income, 1960-2000, uses
dumslp
Source After Goklany (2001), based on data from
World Bank (2002).
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Fig 4-2 Health expenditures per capita (HE) vs.
income, 1998
Source Based on data from World Bank (2002).