Louis Proyect wrote:
>Actually, if you look at the report itself, you will discover that the main
>sources for the statistics are the World Bank and IMF:
If you look at the report itself you will discover that the sources are:
life expectancy: UN Population Division
literacy: UNESCO
school enrolment: UNESCO
GDP per capita: World Bank
One out of four ain't bad, I guess.
>Those of us on the left who have been studying current events over the past
>20 years or so have taken note of the tendency of underdeveloped nations to
>buckle under to pressure from the World Bank and the IMF. In order to
>qualify for loans, they have to gut social services, especially in health
>and education. The consequences of this, logically speaking, would be a
>decline in health and education indicators. My own reading of the radical
>books and magazines from underdeveloped countries tends to reinforce that
>view.
Wow, I didn't know about these terrible things the WB & IMF were up
to. Thanks for the update!
Doug
