I can't tell so far whether this is offering anything new, or is just a bunch of generalities hacked together by recent-college-graduate consultants to sell to other recent-college-graduate consultants. Has anyone read the report and found it useful?
I thought this bit from the executive summary was interesting -- the variables they're following where they think they have enough data to evaluate the last twenty years and make predictions for the next ten years:
Where are we winning?
• Access to water
• Literacy rate
• Life expectancy at birth
• Poverty $1.25 a day
• Infant mortality
• Wars
• HIV prevalence
• Internet users
• GDP/capita
• Women in parliaments
• School enrollment, secondary
• Energy efficiency
• Population growth
• Undernourishment prevalence
• Nuclear proliferation
Where are we losing?
• Total debt
• Unemployment
• Income inequality
• Ecological footprint / biocapacity ratio
• GHG emissions
• Terrorist attacks
• Voter turnout
Where there is no significant change or change is not clear?
• Corruption
• Freedom rights
• Electricity from renewables
• Forest lands
• R&D expenditures
• Physicians per capita
Here's the executive summary of the actual report: http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/SOF2012-English...
And here's the page where you can buy the whole deal if you want ($10-$40): http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/2012SOF.html
I can't tell so far whether this is offering anything new, or is just a bunch of generalities hacked together by recent-college-graduate consultants to sell to other recent-college-graduate consultants. Has anyone read the report and found it useful?
I thought this bit from the executive summary was interesting -- the variables they're following where they think they have enough data to evaluate the last twenty years and make predictions for the next ten years:
Where are we winning? • Access to water • Literacy rate • Life expectancy at birth • Poverty $1.25 a day • Infant mortality • Wars • HIV prevalence • Internet users • GDP/capita • Women in parliaments • School enrollment, secondary • Energy efficiency • Population growth • Undernourishment prevalence • Nuclear proliferation
Where are we losing? • Total debt • Unemployment • Income inequality • Ecological footprint / biocapacity ratio • GHG emissions • Terrorist attacks • Voter turnout
Where there is no significant change or change is not clear? • Corruption • Freedom rights • Electricity from renewables • Forest lands • R&D expenditures • Physicians per capita