In Today's Propaganda...

[bjarvis]

My dear Gov't of Canada sent me an e-mail earlier today spouting off that Canada is now #4 in the UN's Human Development Index. The top ten best countries in to live are:
1 Iceland
2 Norway
3 Australia
4 Canada
5 Ireland
6 Sweden
7 Switzerland
8 Japan
9 Netherlands
10 France

The US is #12.

The bottom ten are:
168 Congo (Democratic Republic of the)
169 Ethiopia
170 Chad
171 Central African Republic
172 Mozambique
173 Mali
174 Niger
175 Guinea-Bissau
176 Burkina Faso
177 Sierra Leone

Comments

Hmmmm

[brokebackvol.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised Zimbabwe is not at the bottom - their inflation is like over 1000%

Re: Hmmmm

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

It's not far off: #151 out of 177.

My feeling is that the bottom 50 on the list are all so bad that it's tough to rank any one worse than another.

Re: Hmmmm

[brunorepublic.livejournal.com]

The last article I saw said that it was incalculable. Since the gov't imposed price controls, production had all but ceased as nobody could afford to sell things for below cost.

Zimbabwe was once relatively prosperous, so I guess there are still remnants of that or they still have further to fall, whereas DR Congo, Mali, Guinea-Bissau, etc., have always been destitute.