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| Thread ID: 135427 | 2013-11-01 03:53:00 | NZ the fifth most prosperous nation in which to live? | WalOne (4202) | PC World Chat |
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| 1358439 | 2013-11-02 04:48:00 | Selling logs,milk, meat and fish is not progress. We have done that 100 years ago. Have heaps of water for power. What are we doing with it- whitebating and then letting go out to sea for surfing. It seems we don't want an economy. Heaps of people without work, what are we doing, paying them to survive and let them stay home....?? Very clever hai... What is prosperity, and how is it achieved? The Prosperity Index seeks to answer these two fundamental questions. Most people would intuitively agree that “prosperity” is not just about money but also about quality of life. The Index defines prosperity as both wealth and wellbeing, and finds that the most prosperous nations in the world are not necessarily those that have only a high GDP, but are those that also have happy, healthy, and free citizens. Unhappy citizens also don't necessarily those who lament the escape of whitebait to the oceans :lol: The key findings from the 2013 year Index are: US drops out of top 20 in the Economy sub-index. Latin America and the Caribbean rise above the world average in the Economy sub-index for the first time in 2013. Bangladesh overtakes India in overall Prosperity. Norway tops the Index for the fifth consecutive year. Botswana is the highest ranking Sub-Saharan country for the fifth consecutive year. Click HERE for a further explanation of prosperity used here (www.youtube.com) :thumbs: |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1358440 | 2013-11-02 06:05:00 | United States second for health ?? NAY !!! If you have the money it's one of the best in the world. If you don't have money or insurance don't get sick. |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 1358441 | 2013-11-02 06:06:00 | :tui: Where oh where does Granny Herald get some of its garbage from? :groan: That would be the biggest load of hogwash since the Global Warming scam. :D How can we possibly rate ahead of Australia when in Australia you can buy petrol for less than $1:50 a litre, electricity is cheaper, food is cheaper, clothing is cheaper, but their wages are higher and on it goes. Hell, even their Health System works better. However, I did notice the link Wal provided took me to www.li.com which I guess is a clue. ;) And you can buy a Nexus 5 in their Google Play Store. Try that with our one.. |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 1358442 | 2013-11-02 06:24:00 | "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." - John Kenneth Galbraith and for contrast: If the Sun was scaled down to the size of a white blood cell, the Milky way would be the size of the continental United States. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1358443 | 2013-11-03 19:36:00 | Wait until Labour gets in and the country is run by menopausal women. :eek: That will get us to No.1 or in No.2. ;) HERE (www.stuff.co.nz) |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1358444 | 2013-11-03 19:50:00 | Of course these reports ans surveys need to be taken with a grain of salt. But when they have been running for a few years they do get a bit more credability. |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1358445 | 2013-11-04 01:03:00 | NZ is living on borrowed $$$$$$$, so of course that will improve std of living/prosperity......untill the next generation has to pay it all back. | 1101 (13337) | ||
| 1358446 | 2013-11-04 03:02:00 | "NZ the fifth most prosperous nation in which to live? " Not only that, we have an efficient Post Office, Telecom are cheerful, economical and helpful, we have one of the world's best cricket teams, Lucas is great and Waikato tastes good. ;) :tui: |
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