Brazil: rapid progress and the challenge of inequality.

摘要: If one accepts the argument that health is a good measure of how country doing socially, then Brazil has come huge distance. In 1950s, male life expectancy in was about 25 years shorter than US. 2014, it 6 shorter. UNDP [1] Human Development Reports are helpful showing quite far travelled along path development. Continuing with as metric social progress, currently range, for both sexes, from 49 Swaziland to 83.5 Japan, now pipped by 84 Hong Kong. On scale, at 74.5 deal closer Japan Sub-Saharan Africa – 9 behind ahead worst Africa.