Determinants of Social Development in the Third World

9308505 Firebaugh这是一个项目，旨在确定贫穷国家不断增加的收入是否有助于改善这些国家普通民众的福利。这项研究将收集过去25年来60个贫穷国家的社会发展指标(例如，卡路里消耗量、婴儿存活率、预期寿命)的数据，并测试收入增长和经济依赖对福利的影响。这项研究还建议改变对这类问题进行跨国研究的典型方式。该项目将有助于更多地努力寻找衡量经济增长和经济依赖其他国家的社会后果的方法。以往不仅研究经济发展，而且研究社会发展的努力都因缺乏合适的数据和错误的模型而受阻。如果这项研究成功，它将为理解席卷全球的经济变化对人类生活的影响提供比过去更坚实的基础。***

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. ***