Arbeitspapier
Human Development as Positive Freedom: Latin America in Historical Perspective
How has Latin America's wellbeing evolved over time? How does Latin America compare to today's developed countries (OECD, for short)? What explains their differences? These questions are addressed using an historical index of human development. A sustained improvement in wellbeing can be observed since 1870. The absolute gap between OECD and Latin America widened over time, but an incomplete catching up -largely explained by education- occurred since 1900, but faded away after 1980, as Latin America fell behind the OECD in terms of longevity. Once the first health transition was exhausted, the contribution of life expectancy to human development declined.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: EHES Working Papers in Economic History ; No. 77
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
Economywide Country Studies: Latin America; Caribbean
Health, Education, and Welfare: General
Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Latin America; Caribbean
- Thema
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Latin America
Human Development
Positive Freedom
Life Expectancy
Education
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Prados de la Escosura, Leandro
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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European Historical Economics Society (EHES)
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s.l.
- (wann)
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2015
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Prados de la Escosura, Leandro
- European Historical Economics Society (EHES)
Entstanden
- 2015
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