POLI 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Legatum Prosperity Index, Legatum, Https
17 May 2017
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The prosperity index ranks countries according to their performance across eight equally-weighted sub-indexes. North america, western europe, australia, and new zealand are the more- developed economies. Overall ranking: the prosperity index ranks countries according to their performance across eight equally-weighed sub-indexes. China is increasingly a trade state, increasingly integrated into a more globalized economy. Singapore is a sort of asian switzerland. Both related by their economic exchange with the rest of the world (trade) Picture of it at night showing the lights and a perfect line of the 39th parallel. Demonstrates that there is not an awful lot of lights to turn on at night time shows it is an ideological economy. Shows the separation from north korea to south korea shows that governing regime really matters (has economic consequences to it) Governments who had decided independently or collectively to raise the gni through means of trade in the global economy, they would do this quickly.
