[lbo-talk] Blue Dogs cashing in

[Somebody Somebody]

In reply to what standards of better and worse we should apply:

A case of things getting better:
India 
life expectancy:
In 2006 - 64 
In 1970 - 49

infant mortality per 1000 births: 
In 2006 - 57
In 1970 - 117

A case of things not getting better:
Kenya
life expectancy:
In 2006 - 53
In 1970 - 52

infant mortality per 1000 births:
In 2006: 79
In 1970: 96

Note: Kenya went through a terrible demographic reversal in the late 80's and 90's, and seems to have recovered only in the later 2000's.