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The initiative and index has gone some way to moving the public debate, though the platform is not well advertised and does not appear in the top results of web searches for similar tools [18] As increases in inequality and climate change force us to reconsider our ideas of growth and progress the OECD Better Life Index may become more mainstream.
The OECD Better Life Index, which measures quality of life according to 11 factors, ranks the United States as 7th among 34 OECD countries. The homeownership rate is relatively high compared to other post-industrial nations.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has released its 2015 list of countries based on their Better Life Index-- which looks into aspects from housing, income, education ...
According to the OECD Better Life Index the United States ranked 28th in work–life balance while European nations dominate this category. [16] Countries adopt welfare state, which determines the role the government takes to preserve the well being of the citizen. The United States developed a limited welfare state in 1930.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development: The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement : Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study
The indicators are used to create a health index, an education index and an income index, each with a value between 0 and 1. The geometric mean of the three indices—that is, the cube root of the product of the indices—is the human development index. A value above 0.800 is classified as very high, between 0.700 and 0.799 as high, 0.550 to 0. ...
In 2007 the OECD published Human Capital: How what you know shapes your life, the first book in the OECD Insights series. This series uses OECD analysis and data to introduce important social and economic issues to non-specialist readers. Other books in the series cover sustainable development, international trade and international migration.
The World Bank suggests the usage of Human Development Index (HDI) and the Gross National Happiness Index (NHI). The HDI is a composite index of life expectancy at birth, as an index of population health and longevity, knowledge and education as measured by the adult literacy rate and functions of school enrollment rate and