World Bank Knowledge Index

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The World Bank has a Knowledge Index that they calculate for countries that can be used as a tool to understand trends.

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What is in the index?

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  1. Education (adult literacy, enrollment in high schools and colleges)
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  1. Information access (telephones, computers, internet users)
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  1. Scientific and technological productivity (researchers, patents, journal articles)
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  1. Institutional integrity (rule of law, regulatory quality, open economies)
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Correlations

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Apparently the Knowledge Index explains 70% of the variation in emancipative values in a country, better than GDP.

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Criticisms

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I have some concerns that the idea of emancipative values, and some of the factors of the index have a western bias.

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Consequences

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Resources

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