The emergence of three human development clubs.

We examine the joint distribution of levels of income per capita, life expectancy, and years of schooling across countries in 1960 and in 2000. In 1960 countries were clustered in two groups; a rich, highly educated, high longevity "developed" group and a poor, less educated, high mortalit...

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Main Authors: Sebastian Vollmer, Hajo Holzmann, Florian Ketterer, Stephan Klasen, David Canning
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23516413/pdf/?tool=EBI