Will South Asia Choose Life? This question is put forward by Eliana Cardoso, the World Bank Chief Economist for South Asia, in a new entry on the World Bank's End Poverty in South Asia blog.
Life expectancy at birth is a first approach to measuring well being, she writes. The content of this indicator is enormously relevant, for life is the highest good and our capacity to survive depends on the society where we live: the quality of our food, our access to sanitation and health systems, as well as the absence of war and violence.
To measure development in South Asia, I would like to know how many children reached the age of five because their families came to have access to basic health services and how many will reach maturity, because violence waned. For, in order to walk barefoot on the beach and find happiness, one has to be alive.
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Blog URL: http://blogs.worldbank.org/endpovertyinsouthasia
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