Winners and Losers
Which Countries are Successful and Why?
Summary
Key Takeaways
Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Preface
- Introduction
- CHAPTER 1 Which Countries Are Successful?
- CHAPTER 2 The Economics of a Better Place
- CHAPTER 3 The Sociology of a Better Place
- CHAPTER 4 Politics and Better Place
- Famous Last Words
- APPENDIX A The Better Place Index 2018
- Series index
Tables
Table 2.1Nicolas Cage Starring Roles and Number of People Drowning in Swimming Pools
Figures
Figure 1.1BPI Change in Turkey 2010–2018
Figure 1.2BPI Change in BRIC Countries 2011–2018
Figure 1.3BPI Change China 2010–2018
Figure 1.4BPI Change in G7 Countries 2011–2018
Figure 1.5BPI Change: United Kingdom and Japan 2010–2018
Figure 2.1Tax Rate and GDP per Capita
Figure 2.3GDP per Capita and the Size of the Public Sector
Figure 2.4Years of Schooling and the Size of the Public Sector
Figure 2.5Number of Doctors and the Size of the Public Sector
Figure 2.6Hospital Beds and Government Consumption
Figure 2.7Right-Wing Ideology and GDP per Capita
Figure 2.8Unemployment and Right-Wing Ideology
Figure 2.9Inequality and BPI and GDP per Capita
Figure 2.10GINI Inequality and GDP per Capita
Figure 2.11BPI and GINI Inequality
Figure 2.12CO2 Emissions and GINI Inequality
Figure 2.13GINI Inequality and Due Process
Figure 2.14GINI Inequality and Schooling
Figure 3.1BPI and Average Temperature
Figure 3.2Democracy and Average Temperatures
Figure 3.3Proportion of Buddhists and GDP per Capita
Figure 3.4Homicide Rates and Proportion of Buddhists
Figure 3.5Proportion of Hindus and BPI
Figure 3.6Proportion of Muslims and BPI
Figure 3.7GDP per Capita and the Proportion of Muslims
Figure 3.8Proportion of Agnostics and GDP per Capita
Figure 3.9BPI and the Proportion of Agnostics
Figure 3.10GDP per Capita and Women MPs
Figure 3.11BPI and Percentage of Female MPs←xi | xii→
Figure 3.12GDP per Capita and Number of Migrants per 100,000
Figure 3.13GDP per Capita and Immigration
Figure 3.14BPI and Immigration
Figure 3.15GINI Inequality and Immigration
Figure 3.16BPI and Ethnic Fractionalisation
Figure 3.17Health Care Spending and Ethnic Fractionalisation
Figure 4.1Democracy and the Better Place Index
Figure 4.2Average BPI in Democracies and Autocracies
Figure 4.3Average GDP per Capita in Democracies and Non-Democracies (in US Dollars)
Figure 4.4BPI in Parliamentary and Non-Parliamentary Systems
Figure 5.1Graphic Representation of Factors (B-Variables)
Appendix AThe Better Place Index 2018
Preface
This short book was written during the Covid-19 lockdown of 2020. The aim was to bring together objective and neutral data and evidence on when countries are successful or not. The short book combines sociology, economics and political science and makes use of statistics to develop the Better Place Index: a measure of success. The book is a snapshot of how things were at a particular period in time. Nothing is static. It is possible that other countries would be winners in the future. Readers who are interested in the methodology and more detailed statistics of each country can look at website, which provides all the information. It can be found at: <https://www.thebetterplaceindex.report/infographics>
Details
- Pages
- XIV, 140
- Publication Year
- 2021
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781800794061
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9781800794078
- ISBN (MOBI)
- 9781800794085
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9781800794054
- DOI
- 10.3726/b18249
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2021 (June)
- Published
- Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, New York, Wien, 2021. XIV, 140 pp., 41 b/w ill., 1 table.
