POL S235 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Gross National Happiness, Comparative Politics, Free Market
29 Jan 2017
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Development: the process by which a society changes or advances, measured in terms of economic growth or sometimes quality of life, standard of living, access to freedom and opportunities or other indicators. Poverty: the state of being poor measured via low income, deprivation, lack of access to resources or limited economic opportunities. Poverty line: the threshold which individuals or groups are judged to be in or not in poverty. Doesn"t show how deep someone is in poverty. Absolute poverty: a conception of poverty that involves setting a certain line ( a dollar a day) below which people will be de ned as poor, understood in the inability to purchase a certain set of basic goods and services. Social outcomes and human development life expectancy: how long you"re expected to live (as an individual or as a society) Infant morality rate: used as an indicator of public health, typical measures the number of infants per 1000 births that don"t survive until.
