Comments for Brazil Gets High Human Development Status But Falls in UN Ranking at http://www.brazzilmag.com , comment 0 to 2 out of 2 comments http://www.brazzilmag.com Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:22:26 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/8928/54/#pc_12210 I'd prefer to cry, not laugh...We still a long way to go before we achieve any real improvements. I just don't understand the mockery. - Mineiro Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:17:08 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/8928/54/#pc_12208 - "the greatest enemy of human development in Brazil is income inequality" - "Average income in Brazil is seven times larger than in Vietnam, but the 20% poorest here have a lower income than the ones there," he exemplified." - " public sanitation, which is present only in 75% of the country" - " in the overall human development ranking, Brazil went down from the 69th to the 70th position" HOW COULD YOU THEN POSSIBLY BE RANKED IN THE " High Human Development Status " ?????? - "was outperformed by Saudi Arabia and Albania" then even Albania should be ranked in the "High Human Development Status"....by defintion ! Strange...very strange ! - "The child mortality rate is 99 for each 1,000 children born alive among the 20% poorest (an index typical of African countries)." Then African countries are not any worse than you...as per the stats ! Laugh...laugh....laugh ! Meaning you are not any better than them either ! Laugh....laugh....laugh ! Ohhhhhh and since when Brazil has a per CAPITA income of US$ 8400.- knowing that the average income in the 6 metropolitan regions (the most developed) have an average income of BRAZILIAN REAL 1050.- per month PER WORKER WITH A JOB...not per capita !!!! Meaning those wihout work or outside those 6 regions have a LOWER PER WORKER (NOT PER CAPITA) income. MY Source ? : IBGE.....your own stats governementaL Agency.......not mine : "The average income of those in work rose 0.6% from October to November, to R$1,056.60 per month, up 5.7% in the first eleven months of 2006" . Feel free to check YOUR OWN stats !!!! :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D - ch.c. Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:15:56 +0100