Monday, November 21, 2011

Growth Doesn't Buy Happiness


Changes in life satisfaction, education and growth performance in the 2000s
Annual changes, in percent

Source: Perspectives on Global Development 2012

This was sent to me by the OECD and illustrates the struggles emerging economies are having translating economic growth to advances in human capital and life satisfaction.

1 comment:

Andrea Cleland said...

Patrick, here's a suggestion for your next picture of the day:

Today's xkcd:
http://xkcd.com/980/huge/#x=-6432&y=-6448&z=2