All that being said, unfortunately the damn site copy rights all their charts, no matter how magnificent they may be. Alas, I can't use them here and share their splendor and glory with all of you.
But I did happen upon Index Mundi, which essentially is the same thing as Nationmaster, but;
1. It doesn't copyright the charts, thereby allowing for the advancement of economic knowledge
2. It also DOESN'T provide the correlation coefficients and other statistical measures that Nationmaster does. Thus me and Liberal Guy, and Derek cannot debate whether they are statistically significant or not.
3. It has merely a fraction of variables that Nationmaster has.
Regardless, it does make for some pretty cool charts like Fertility Rates versus GDP per capita;
Which proves children are evil.Or Fertility Rates versus Literacy Rates
Which proves children bring about stupidity.Regardless, now you too can be cool like real life economists and toy around with the charting function yourself come some Saturday evening when you can't find a date.
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Or, possibly that poor people (less likely to be literate) have less of a relative opportunity cost in having children. And, furthermore, a higher relative level of marginal benefit for each additional child.
Yours are certainly more plausible, but I like mine better.
How's life under the new socialist prez?
Found a site on Chile's economic with some good stats. I'll have to reference it later.
Haha...well, it will probably be about the same as life under the current Socialist prez, with a bit less economic competence (current one, Lagos, is a Duke-educated economist). I think if the center-right had put in a better candidate - although I liked him at lot myself, he entered late and is a billionaire businessman - and the Socialist (Bachelet) wasn't a woman, the "good guys" would have won. As it is, I don't think she will screw up the economy too much, besides idiotically raising the corporate income tax a little bit and generally making the investment climate a bit worse. Nothing near as bad as Kircher in Argentina, though, let alone Evo in Bolivia and Hugo in Venezuela. Luckily, I am but a lowly American exchange student, so I will be moving back to the Land of Opportunity (and 6-7x the GDP per capita) in June :). Please, let me know that reference site...decent data is hard to come by, except through the newspapers, which I can't always get ahold of.
http://www.foreigninvestment.cl/index/plantilla4.asp?id_seccion=30&id_subsecciones2=3
That's the site.
That being said, I could certainly see with the election of Evo Moronis and Hugo nationalizing everything that Chile might benefit from the capital flight from those nations, despite the socialist administration.
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