'The United States ranks forty-first, just below Cuba.' The rankings include 'the absence of poverty and hunger, good health and education, gender equality, clean air and water, and reduced inequality.'
The United Nations' latest annual ranking of nations by"sustainable development goals" will come as a shock for many Americans. Not only aren't we"Number One," we're not even close. The top four countries are Scandinavian democracies. The United States ranks forty-first, just below Cuba . Countries that outrank us include Estonia, Croatia, the Slovak Republic, Romania, and Serbia.
" developed by economist Jeffrey Sachs and his team are well chosen. They include the absence of poverty and hunger, good health and education, gender equality, clean air and water, and reduced inequality. To Frydl's point, the US picture does look like that of a developing country. But how, exactly, does a country that was once"developed" become"developing"? The phrase"developing country" implies that there are countries that have achieved development, and countries that are on their way. It leaves no room for the possibility that a nation, once it developed, can"un-develop" itself.
Fukuyama has since renounced that idea, and understandably so. The declining status of the United States undermines the historical assumptions about progress that have guided political and financial elites for many decades. Countries like the United States and United Kingdom look less and less like the end-state of history and more and more like declining world powers, like so many that have gone before them.
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