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Level of Living
‑ Among highest in world ‑ How do we do this calculation?
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Q? ‑ What does
level of living mean?
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Q? ‑ Problems
of measurement in one country?
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Q? ‑
Complications across countries?
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2002 GDP per capita
highest in course
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But below USA
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2002 Human
Development Index
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Includes GDP per capita, life expectancy
and average education
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Canada second highest in course (after
Sweden)
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US ranks 16th, lower than any
country in the course
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Child Poverty very
low
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Better than Britain or Italy but below
Sweden (the four Scandanavian countries are the four best in the world)
France and Germany.
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US is the worst of all the developed
countries in the world
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