Brazil achieves highest human development index in history
Posted by cambeiu@reddit | anime_titties | View on Reddit | 11 comments
Brazil entered, for the first time, the category of countries with “very high” human development. In 2024, the country reached 0.805 on the Municipal Human Development Index (IDHM), compared to 0.744 in 2012. The scale for classifying human development varies from 0 to 1, being very high: above 0.800.
Moikanyoloko@reddit
Very pleasant news, reflecting the result of a strong public education & health policy.
Sadly income isn't keeping up, and will probably remain the largest issue longterm.
Green_Rays@reddit
Moving up the supply chain ladder takes a long time. Took many decades for China and that's with a state that has a lot of control over how money flows in the economy
Lower_Cockroach2432@reddit
To be fair, China had many instances of self sabotage on that route. For instance the cultural revolution.
It took Mao dying to get relatively unhindered growth.
TrueBigorna@reddit
^ Clueless
_Kiith_Naabal_@reddit
The Cultural Revolution is what cleared the path to what China is today. It burned the left overs of the war lords, the caste system, the left overs of monarchy, all other parasites of society.
The Cultural Revolution is what explain what China is today and why India is what it is.
Green_Rays@reddit
Not only that but the social engineering attempts in the one child policy with Deng etc were horrendous mistakes.
But I do think what they are doing currently in cracking down in fintech and overleveraged property devs, restricting speculative finance and being able to channel credit into sectors they find important like EVs and semiconductors etc are smart long term decisions that no other country can take due to their "weak" less authoritarian states.
_Kiith_Naabal_@reddit
Moving up the takes a long time? Many decades ago, let's say, half a century, Brazil was ten times as rich as China. By the 70s, the industrial output was basically the same...
Acceptable-Device760@reddit
Because the Right is a very rural centric in Brazil and the population is stupid.
So they keep electing the right, or right that pretend to be center but always vote with the right, and we lost industrial power.
And i am not even going to touch hot the US backed dictatorship killed a lot of national industry, including car manufacturing, so the foreign companies could reign without any competition.
debasing_the_coinage@reddit
Unfortunately this war (Iran) seems to have rewarded what is known to be a fundamentally inefficient and impractical policy: biofuel. Brazil needs a modern energy policy. And sugarcane, which is the world's most productive crop, is the most obvious choice of material to eventually replace petrochemical plastics. Instead they're still lighting it on fire.
For a little while this has insulated them from the petroleum shock. But in the long run they'll need to claw their way out of this local optimum.
Acceptable-Device760@reddit
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Ethanol has been a thing in Brazil for a long time.
If anything its US influence, as usual, making Brazil keep oil going.
https://www.reddit.com/r/anime_titties/comments/1qrl9op/bolsonaro_is_mentioned_in_a_conversation_with/
Did you think Bolsonaro trying to flee to the US was a coincidence?
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/mundo/2019/02/bannon-anuncia-eduardo-bolsonaro-como-lider-sul-americano-de-movimento-de-ultradireita.shtml
Bolsonaro was backed and financed by Bannon and by extension the US.
Lower_Cockroach2432@reddit
Surely high HDI will lead to higher incomes. A happy, healthy population is more likely to be more educated, more innovative and more productive.
I wouldn't completely doom yet.