The Measure of America: American Human Development Report, 2008-2009

Sarah Burd-Sharps, Kristen Lewis, and Eduardo Borges Martins

Paper, 256 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-15495-6
$24.95 / £16.95

July, 2008
Cloth, 256 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-15494-9
$75.00 / £52.00

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• Visit the Web site for Measure of America
• Download the Teacher’s Guide to the Measure of America
• Watch a video of the authors speaking at the Carnegie Council and read a post about their appearance from Fairer Globalization
• Listen to an interview with the authors on The Take Away
• Listen to an interview with the authors on “Day To Day” on NPR.
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• Read articles about the book in the Guardian, Huffington Post, and Daily News
• View a graphic in Time based on information from The Measure of America

Related Subjects

• American Politics
• Politics and Political Theory
• Reference

Series

• Gutenberg-e

About the Author

Sarah Burd-Sharps served as the deputy director of UNDP's Human Development Report Office until September 2006. Kristen Lewis was a lead author of the water and sanitation report of the U.N. Millennium Project, led by Jeffrey Sachs, and writes extensively on development, gender, and the environment. Eduardo Borges Martins was the chief statistician in the creation of the Human Development Index for Brazil's municipalities. The American Human Development Project is an independent, non-profit initiative of Oxfam America, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council, with additional support from the Annenberg Foundation.

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