Determinants of Social Development in the Third World

小行星9308505菲尔堡 这是一个确定贫穷国家收入增加是否有助于改善这些国家普通民众福利的项目。 这项研究将收集关于社会发展指标的数据（例如， 热量消耗，婴儿存活率，预期寿命）的60个贫困国家的样本在过去的四分之一世纪，并测试收入增长和经济依赖的福利后果。 该研究还建议改变对这些问题进行跨国研究的方式。 这一项目将有助于越来越多地努力寻找办法来衡量经济增长和对其他国家的经济依赖的社会后果。 由于缺乏合适的数据和错误的模型，以前不仅研究经济发展，而且研究社会发展的努力受到了阻碍。 如果这项研究取得成功，它将为理解席卷世界的经济变化对人类生活的影响提供比过去研究更坚实的基础。 ***

9308505 Firebaugh This is a project to determine whether rising income in poor countries has contributed to improved welfare for the ordinary population in those countries. The research will assemble data on indicators of social development (e.g., caloric consumption, infant survival, life expectancy) for a sample of 60 poor countires over the last quarter century and test the welfare consequences of both income growth and economic dependency. The research also proposes changes in the way in which cross-national research on such questions is typically conducted. This project will contribute to a growing effort to find ways to measure the social consequences of economic growth and of economic dependence on other countries. Previous efforts to study not simply economic development but also social development have been hampered by the absence of suitable data and faulty models. If this research is successful it will provide a much firmer basis than past studies for understanding the impact on human lives of the economic changes that are sweeping the world. ***