e2357 t1_je5n4a2 wrote on March 29, 2023 at 4:14 PM

Reply to comment by dolphin37 in [OC] Research Funding vs Human Development: a country's R&D spending correlates with its societal well-being by latinometrics

I think that the US and Europe have been more at war than most of Latin America during the past century, right?

e2357 t1_je5mo1g wrote on March 29, 2023 at 4:11 PM

Reply to comment by Level3Kobold in [OC] Research Funding vs Human Development: a country's R&D spending correlates with its societal well-being by latinometrics

Well, of course that even a reasonably designated investment in research and development will not have an immediate impact in HDI and will not be the only factor contributing to it. Do you know how long have Brazil been investing this much? Or how reasonable this expenditure is? If any, from this graph, Brazil looks more like an outlier. Similar to China, whose HDI have been actually improving a lot during last decades and this correlates well with its R&D level of investment. Not the HDI number itself but the rate of improvement of it.