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Jamaica back of Carib pack in human development - Barbados, Cuba, St Kitts heads above rest - Study
published: Friday | November 10, 2006 <DIV class=KonaBody>
<SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 700; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">Jamaica</SPAN> trails all but one Caribbean nation in the Human Development Index (HDI) 2006 report released yesterday, registering an unflattering 104th in the 177-country document. The only Caribbean country which ranked below Jamaica was Haiti (154), still grappling with the triple scourge of widespread violence and social upheaval, poverty and illiteracy.
The report, which rates not only per-capita income, but also <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">educational</SPAN> levels, health care and life expectancy in measuring general standards of living, ranked <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">Norway</SPAN>, Iceland, Australia, Ireland and Sweden as the best five countries to live in.
The United States was ranked eighth, after Canada and Japan. <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">Switzerland</SPAN> and The Netherlands round out the top 10. Africa monopolises the bottom 23 places.
Economic dynamo, Barbados, was rated the 31st best place to reside, the top-rated nation in the Caribbean and Latin America. Communist Cuba ranked No. 50
Jamaica back of Carib pack in human development - Barbados, Cuba, St Kitts heads above rest - Study
published: Friday | November 10, 2006 <DIV class=KonaBody>
<SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 700; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">Jamaica</SPAN> trails all but one Caribbean nation in the Human Development Index (HDI) 2006 report released yesterday, registering an unflattering 104th in the 177-country document. The only Caribbean country which ranked below Jamaica was Haiti (154), still grappling with the triple scourge of widespread violence and social upheaval, poverty and illiteracy.
The report, which rates not only per-capita income, but also <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">educational</SPAN> levels, health care and life expectancy in measuring general standards of living, ranked <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">Norway</SPAN>, Iceland, Australia, Ireland and Sweden as the best five countries to live in.
The United States was ranked eighth, after Canada and Japan. <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">Switzerland</SPAN> and The Netherlands round out the top 10. Africa monopolises the bottom 23 places.
Economic dynamo, Barbados, was rated the 31st best place to reside, the top-rated nation in the Caribbean and Latin America. Communist Cuba ranked No. 50