Re:To make progress on climate change, we must move past doo...
by dtx1 on Friday November 26, 2021 @01:19PM
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Well GDP is not the only measure of human development, for example child mortality has more than halved since the 1990s
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.DYN.MORT?locations=Z...
I'd call that a sucess story.
Re:To make progress on climate change, we must move past doo...
by rsj_hn on Friday November 26, 2021 @02:10PM
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That's a very low bar in exchange for Africa continuing to fall farther behind the rest of the world - e.g. during the same period child mortality in the EU fell be a factor of three and in the entire world it declined by a factor of 2.5
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.DYN.MORT?locations=Z...
From 1960 to 2020, real GDP per capita in subsaharan Africa has grown by 0.6% per annum.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NYGDPPCAPKDSSF
Whereas real global GDP per capita has increased by 1.7%, or three times the rate of growth as subsaharan Africa.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NYGDPPCAPKDWLD
So yes, there has been some measurable human development. But Africa continues to fall farther behind the rest of the world -- e.g. the difference in global development between the rest of the world and Africa in 1960 was much lower than the difference today. We see divergence, not convergence.
I can't see that as a success story.