22 janeiro 2013

A QUEDA DO IMPÉRIO :

The Economist, Business Insider - Jan 2013 - clik 1 - clik 2.
EUA desaba de 1º para 18º lugar.
Lista: "melhor país para nascer".
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America, where babies will inherit the large debts of the boomer generation, languishes back in 16th place. Its quality-of-life index links the results of subjective life-satisfaction surveys—how happy people say they are—to objective determinants of the quality of life across countries. Being rich helps more than anything else, but it is not all that counts; things like crime, trust in public institutions and the health of family life matter too. In all, the index takes 11 statistically significant indicators into account. They are a mixed bunch: some are fixed factors, such as geography; others change only very slowly over time (demography, many social and cultural characteristics); and some factors depend on policies and the state of the world economy.