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🗓️ 15 September 2023
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0:20.1 | This is CBS. I am the world. I'm John Bachelord. The positive information coming from the internet |
0:27.4 | never gets the attention, the negative information. I'm Guilty, so I turn to |
0:31.7 | Erniek to receive the Mercata Center to introduce us to the Human Progress Index, |
0:38.3 | constructed by Scholar Chelsea Follett and George Mason University economist Vincent |
0:43.6 | Chaloso. Erniek, it's good news, so we have to be bold here. What is the Human Progress Index? |
0:50.9 | Good evening to you. Good evening, John. The Human Progress Index is an index that, as you said, |
0:58.4 | has been put up by two scholars, Follett and George Loso, and published at the Kiddo Institute, |
1:07.7 | and it looks at basically doing a better measure of global inequality. The way it does it |
1:17.1 | is by going beyond measuring income and equality. Basically, it wants to measure the relative gap |
1:24.8 | in international equality, but along a greater number of dimension than those that just focus on |
1:34.5 | material well-being. Not that material well-being is an important, it's really important, but |
1:40.7 | as you know, think about it this way, if a family lose a child, their income per capita goes up, |
1:51.4 | but their well-being goes down quite dramatically. So there are lots of things that makes us people |
1:59.6 | and that affect our well-being that go beyond income. So that's what they're doing, and they're |
2:06.4 | including things like lifespan, infant mortality, nutrition, environmental quality, access to |
2:14.3 | opportunity through education mostly, access to information, that's access to the internet and |
2:20.9 | political freedom are some of the dimensions that they're adding. All right, we're looking at the |
2:25.8 | globe, the planet, not just the G7 or the G20, the planet, and the timeframe is 21st century |
2:33.6 | back into the 20th. And you mentioned China and India, my guess is they've contributed |
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