Index 451
knowledge, 350, 385, 386–92; abuse of, 403; Legalism (China), 63
and development, 66, 157, 256–57, 283, leisure time, 220–22, 270, 271, 273; and
286, 289, 290, 335; exchange of, 63; in the consumption, 225, 397, 415; in U.S.,
future, 343; loss of, 395; and pragmatism, 221–22, 225
337. See also economies: knowledge-based Lendenbaum family (Switzerland), 152–57, 159
Kolodko, Grzegorz W., 7–8 Lenin, V. I., 80–82, 403
Korea, 354. See also North Korea; South Korea Lesotho, 136, 137, 142, 168, 172
Kornai, János, 22, 206 less-developed countries: clothes in, 359; debt
Kosovo, 33, 345 of, 193, 434n10; and democracy, 170;
Kuwait, 36, 65, 102, 172, 378 fi nancial systems of, 196; foreign aid to,
Kyrgyztan, 64, 102, 270, 354 346, 385, 402; in the future, 344–47, 418;
and global institutions, 352–53; HDI in,
labor: cheap, 105–6, 376; and communism, 92; 166; income distribution in, 163, 272;
and democracy, 306; and development, incomes in, 143; institutions in, 298; and
262, 263, 267, 286; and geography, 103; and Internet, 401–2; investment in, 194–95,
globalization, 83, 86, 87, 92, 95, 105–7, 146; 196, 211, 346; and knowledge-based
and IMF policy, 106–7; and knowledge, economies, 388, 389; labor from, 105–6;
386; liberalization of, 83, 85, 222; markets and models of growth, 283–84; natural
for, 107, 225, 227, 252; and measures of disasters in, 132–33; and neoliberalism,
freedom, 171; migration of, 83–84, 122, 208–10, 228; and NGOs, 356, 357;
299, 377, 379, 380; in models of growth, population growth in, 370, 372, 381;
287, 288; and neoliberalism, 83, 107, 207, reforms in, 301–3; and social market
223–24, 225, 252; vs. capital, 107, 265 economies, 253; and the state, 246; and
labor productivity, 265, 267; in coincidence trade, 131; transfers to developed countries
theory, 322, 330, 331; comparisons of, 60; from, 191, 194, 202, 382; vs. developed
and consumption, 331–32; models of, 320; countries, 100–101, 105–6, 129–39, 278–79,
in Poland, 331 281, 328; and world capitalism, 99. See also
labor unions, 86, 95, 207, 213, 214 particular countries
languages, 409, 411–12, 418 liberalism, 11, 12, 16, 221, 232, 245, 403. See also
Laos, 44, 172, 193, 211, 230, 411; environment neoliberalism
of, 175, 412 liberalization: of capital, 86, 209; and
Large Hadron Collider (LHC), 340 coincidence theory, 329; and democracy,
Latin America: and climate change, 180; 112, 170, 173; and fi nancial markets, 95;
colonialism in, 44, 89; common currency and freedom, 85–86; and globalization,
in, 413; debt in, 192, 193, 208, 209; 83–84, 100; of labor, 83, 85, 222; and
democracy in, 168, 307; development in, neoliberalism, 209, 240, 250; of trade,
36, 63, 64–65, 131, 289, 290, 315; economic 32–33, 38, 209, 214, 406–7; vs. market
crisis in, 208, 209, 210; elections in, 138, economy, 215
182, 208–9; free market in, 32–33; and the Liberia, 132, 193, 305, 372
future, 334; GDP in, 58, 64–65; Gini Libya, 149, 168, 171
coeffi 135, 136; HDI in, 163, 166; Liechtenstein, 168, 191, 199 cient for,
health in, 159; history of, 51, 109; income lies, 2, 21, 23; about aid, 163; about energy
disparities in, 137; infl 205, 208, resources, 360; and future of globalization, ation in,
384; integration of, 89–90; and Internet, 126; and neoliberalism, 174, 217, 242; in
402; investment in, 211, 346; migration Poland, 217, 218, 219; and public opinion,
from, 83, 84, 106; military in, 406; as 251; vs. errors, 14, 20–22; vs. truth, 10, 12–13,
model, 241; and neoliberalism, 108, 211, 228; 14, 19–20, 22
NRI of, 142; population growth in, 370; life expectancy: in developed countries, 141,
poverty line in, 70; regional groups in, 89, 414; and development, 266, 267, 268; in
90, 354, 408; socialism in, 228, 336; and future, 414; and HDI, 158, 159; and health
U.S., 226; vs. China, 62, 231; and Western care, 380; increases in, 55, 157, 408; in
media, 22. See also particular countries less-developed countries, 55, 141, 152, 376;
Latinobarometro (fi rm), 138 and population, 372, 376; and size of the
Latvia, 438n6 state, 246; and socialism, 162–63; vs.
Le Carré, John, 161 democracy, 167