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Author_John A. Mathieson
Author_Ophelia M. Yeung
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- ISBN 9780815796817
- Dimensions: 191 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 01 May 1998
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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How do you measure the progress countries are making in economic development? Should measurements focus on per capita income or output? Or should assessments also consider education, health, a clean environment, or a participatory political system? These questions have vexed national leaders, international donor agencies, and development practitioners for decades. This book was conceived to address the lack of definitive, comprehensive measures of development among policymakers, economists, and other social scientists. It presents a unique and innovative measurement system for country progress in six aspects of development: economic performance, competitiveness, education, health, environment, and democracy and freedom. The authors scored over 100 countries individually and plotted their development performance along six vectors, allowing them to be benchmarked against one another. They illustrate at a glance whether the country's development is balanced and allows the country's progress to be monitored over time. This book presents the conceptual framework supporting a Development Web model, the scoring systems, as well as 100 individual Country Development Webs accompanied by discussions of their scores and country conditions. Copublished with SRI
Ophelia M. Yeung, senior economist at SRI International, has carried out numerous economic policy assessments and contributed to the design of policy reform initiatives in over a dozen countries. John A. Mathieson, executive director of SRI's Economics Practice, has directed economic research and advised high-level government officials in economic policy issues in over seventy countries. Previously a senior fellow at the Overseas Development Council, he is the coauthor of Liberalizing and Privatizing Financial Markets (Greenwood, 1991).
