Human Capital and the Wealth of Nations:

A New Methodology for Evaluating Measurements of Social and Economic Change in Latin America and Other World Regions

A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in History

By Michael S. Ray

STATISTICALLY MEASURING CHANGE

IN

LATIN AMERICA AND THE WORLD

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VOLUME 4 OF 4

  SEMINAR IN HISTORICAL STATISTICS

UCLA

PROFESSOR JAMES W. WILKIE

Winter 2002

The articles included here were originally

Developed in the Graduate Seminar and Published

in or under the auspices of the

Statistical Abstract of Latin America (SALA)

And its Supplement Series.

(Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications)