As long as socialist countries are based on the premise of punishing successful people, people that are innovating to improve your own life, it will always be stagnant in growth.
GNI per captia rank minus HDI rank
Christopher Campbell
Nathan Martin
Nice meme. You realize that pretty much all socialist countries that existed had different pay for different jobs, and material incentives to innovate/work harder right?
Actually they aren't stagnant. On the contrary socialist countries typically display steady, constant growth. Its just slower than capitalist countries.
Jason Cooper
Cameron Parker
It's higher.
Blake Thomas
I've heard of isolated cases of that happening but I think its generally the other way around.
Gavin Wright
my man you just fell for another neoliberal trick
Justin Parker
Out of these countries, remember that Cuba is the one that got blockaded throughout the entire 20th century. Outside factors play a role. That bump in economic growth is also easily explainable with the fall of the USSR. If the latter didn't happen, Cuban GDP might be twice as high or higher.
Eli Myers
Somewhat related, but did you know the US is the only big country that doesn't produce HDI statistics for its states? You can find HDI data for Chinese provinces, Indian and Pakistanese provinces, Russian federal units, Japanese prefectures… even Canada and Mexico calculate their sub-national scores.
This makes sense since large countries with inequalities between their regions can have huge differences in HDI (look at Canada's for example.)
Yet there is no official HDI score for US states, let alone for their colonial territories.
(There's an unofficial "American Human Development Index" list on Wikipedia but it's not compatible with HDI scores, in fact it's not even the same format.)
Leo Cox
I also noticed this in the context of the "Kerala miracle".
Combined with the huge brain drain and general worker exodus these countries tend to have, from a capitalist/accelerationist point of view, socialist states are actually extremely cost-and-resource-efficient ways of building human capital that will be put to productive use in neoliberal countries.
I don't know what the solution is, however.
Jose Fisher
I have like 5 pdfs of statistics books, read none of them , I hate myself, I need boot strpas
The uploader breaks for me when I upload more than 1 or 2, so here have this