送交者: mangolasi 于 2005-6-03, 14:14:47:
回答: 照片上的GDP -- 兼回Gordon网友。 由 Latino2 于 2005-6-03, 13:02:09:
My impression on China is still poor but long life-expectency, low infant mortality and very high women's status. China did well in these things before.
In particular, the 3rd column is a shame: The combined gross enrollment of some primary secondary education. Amartya Sen had pointed out improving education (together with medical care) is the best way out of proverty, and cost very little: it's labor intensive, and the last scarce resource in developing country is human being. This is not limited by resource and environment etc etc. If a government really wants to improve it, very few outside cause can stop it. And that's an investment of the future--best indicator of a better governance, and how well it would fare in the future in this table.
I had a look at the country total ranking from 61-135, 75 countries (China is 94), the enrollment less than Chinas are:
with around 1/2 GDP of China: 15 countries
poorer than China: 4 countries
almost at par: 2
richer: 6 (2 of them are Arabian countries)
Total: 27
Total at par or pooer than China: 40 countries
When you take into account of the education in the priority chart in Asian culture, and the good system laid 20 years ago, this is not very applausible--actually the positive GDP per capita minus HDI rank is already not something glory. I am actually afraid of a declining on basic human rights (education, medical care, even women's right etc) these few years.