Can anyone answer this for me.
How do you know when a country is not doing well or the living conditions are poor?
This is without reading the news or anything.
I just may start this as a new thread.

Can anyone answer this for me.
How do you know when a country is not doing well or the living conditions are poor?
This is without reading the news or anything.
I just may start this as a new thread.
Economic indicators are a start:
GDP...GDP/cap, quality of life index, ICRG corrputions index.
But Chobby is right IMHO...You need to go there and talk to people on the ground. I think the most effective way is to visit a country's poorest regions.
"you measure the degree of civilisation of a society by how it treats its weakest members." Churchill

I'll cut to the chase.
Before Argentina did bad you rarely saw one around in the city, now you see a whole bunch.
Same with the Irish during the potato famine.....

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you have never spent the night with a mosquito."
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you have never spent the night with a mosquito."
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