Human Development Report 2010

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Picked up the UN Human Development Report 2010 (Introduction by Amartya Sen).

Chief conclusion?

p45
The chapter is also about making sense of
one of the most surprising results to come out
of human development research in the past
few years: the lack of a significant correlation
between economic growth and improvements in
health and education. Understanding this result
is enormously important for development policy.
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[my emphasis]

It is a remarkable result (well, not to me). Two bottom lines:

1. It's not the economy, stupid.

2. The reboot need not affect Quality of Life.
 
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utgibbs said:
Picked up the UN Human Development Report 2010 (Introduction by Amartya Sen).

Chief conclusion?

p45 [my emphasis]

It is a remarkable result (well, not to me). Two bottom lines:

1. It's not the economy, stupid.

2. The reboot need not affect Quality of Life.
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so what is your conclusion? more government, or do we need the UN to take over?

I love how you liberal sheep think the government and the UN should be the highest example.
 
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joevol320 said:
so what is your conclusion? more government, or do we need the UN to take over?

I love how you liberal sheep think the government and the UN should be the highest example.
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What is my conclusion?

2. The reboot need not affect Quality of Life.

As the data shows.

The HDR 2010 also has a significant chapter on the (un)sustainability of our current paradigm too. And it has new tools assessing inequality (the most important metric in determining human development gains) and multidimensional poverty.

I think this is among the best services of the UN - develop and deliver data from across the world. Assess the world objectively and report on it.
 
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utgibbs said:
What is my conclusion?

2. The reboot need not affect Quality of Life.

As the data shows.

The HDR 2010 also has a significant chapter on the (un)sustainability of our current paradigm too. And it has new tools assessing inequality (the most important metric in determining human development gains) and multidimensional poverty.

I think this is among the best services of the UN - develop and deliver data from across the world. Assess the world objectively and report on it.
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The UN is a joke, the UN allow dictators and murderers in power in these 3rd world countries and they do nothing to help spread freedom. the UN is an anti Israel, anti America organization.
 
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The UN is the most overrated useless organization in the world. The only reason it exists, is because it's located in the United States, and is a platform for the liberal pissing and moaning in the world about how things aren't politically correct for those individuals who do not wish to better themselves.
 
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I don't understand how the UN can allow these warlords in Africa to rule. they give billions of dollars of America's money to feed these poor people but they do nothing to eliminate the cause.
 
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So does the UN suggest we pay teachers on a sliding scale based on their student's performance? If so I agree. Give the top 10 percentile 6 figures.

Include payroll deductions to those with students that graduate highschool at a 6th grade reading level or below.
 
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myrobbins7 said:
Sorry my bad, but I would much rather take care of problems at home first and the list is growing by the day.
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the list is very long of money that could be kept at home to help out US citizens. Unfortunately there are many who think it's our responsibility to hand out an allowance to the rest of the world.

Of course we shouldn't be their policeman but we should be their bank
 
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utvolpj said:
the list is very long of money that could be kept at home to help out US citizens. Unfortunately there are many who think it's our responsibility to hand out an allowance to the rest of the world.

Of course we shouldn't be their policeman but we should be their bank
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I couldn't agree more..
 
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sounds to me like they are telling us that spending on education doesn't matter.
 
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I would like to see the UN moved off US soil.

However, I don't share the opinions on the UN expressed in this thread. They are a little whacko.
 
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droski said:
sounds to me like they are telling us that spending on education doesn't matter.
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Not quite.

It does have a fairly establishment perspective on education. One of its key metrics is "number of years in education." Very meaningful in many parts of the world, but I advocate a lot less time in classrooms and a lot more time in the real world outside the backdoor.
 
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utvolpj said:
then please explain how the US benefits from the UN. I honestly see very little being returned to us for the huge investment
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Do we have an investment?

I'm pretty sure Bush suspended payments to the UN. Hell, it might have been under Clinton.

I know we've been in arrears for a long time at some point. It would be nice to have the data.
 
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utgibbs said:
Not quite.

It does have a fairly establishment perspective on education. One of its key metrics is "number of years in education." Very meaningful in many parts of the world, but I advocate a lot less time in classrooms and a lot more time in the real world outside the backdoor.
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Ummm, the less years you have in education the more years you have in the real world outside the proverbial backdoor.
 
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utgibbs said:
Do we have an investment?

I'm pretty sure Bush suspended payments to the UN. Hell, it might have been under Clinton.

I know we've been in arrears for a long time at some point. It would be nice to have the data.
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from a quick search for the data, the US spent $3bil on the UN last year

Each year, Congress must pass legislation to fund the activities and obligations of the U.S. government. In Fiscal Year 2010, the U.S. sent more than $3 billion to the UN. This total included $2.125 billion for peacekeeping operations, $669 million for the regular budget, and $389 million for agencies that the U.S. contributes to but is not an assessed contribution, such as the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) or the World Health Organization (WHO). The U.S. is the largest contributor to the UN, UN peacekeeping, and UN agencies, paying almost a quarter of the UN regular and peacekeeping budgets.
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Last year, Congress fully funded the regular and peacekeeping budgets for fiscal year 2010 and paid off our debt to the UN.
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How the U.S. Funds the UN

and the numbers are rising under our current leader
 
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