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: Received: 10 September 2018 / Approved: 11 September 2018 / Online: 11 September 2018 (12:05:12 CEST)
How to cite:
Short, J.R.; Vélez-Hagan, J.; Dubots, L. What Do Global Metrics Tell Us About The World?. Preprints2018, 2018090196. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201809.0196.v1
Short, J.R.; Vélez-Hagan, J.; Dubots, L. What Do Global Metrics Tell Us About The World?. Preprints 2018, 2018090196. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201809.0196.v1
Short, J.R.; Vélez-Hagan, J.; Dubots, L. What Do Global Metrics Tell Us About The World?. Preprints2018, 2018090196. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201809.0196.v1
APA Style
Short, J.R., Vélez-Hagan, J., & Dubots, L. (2018). What Do Global Metrics Tell Us About The World?. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201809.0196.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Short, J.R., Justin Vélez-Hagan and Leah Dubots. 2018 "What Do Global Metrics Tell Us About The World?" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201809.0196.v1
Abstract
There are now a wide variety of global metrics. To find the degree of overlap between these different measures, we employ a principal components analysis (PCA) to 15 indices across 145 countries. Our results demonstrate that the most important underlying dimension highlights that economic development and social progress go hand in hand with state stability. The results are used to produce categorical divisions of the world. The threefold division identifies a world composed of what we describe and map as Rich, Poor and Middle countries. A five-group classification provided a more nuanced categorization described as; The Very Rich, Free and Stable, Affluent and Free, Upper Middle, Lower Middle, and Poor and Not Free.
Keywords
global indices, global metrics, global society, new global geographies, principal components analysis.
Subject
Social Sciences, Geography, Planning and Development
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
