{"id":37005,"date":"2017-04-22T17:58:36","date_gmt":"2017-04-22T16:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=37005"},"modified":"2017-04-22T18:00:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T17:00:44","slug":"tax-and-human-development-the-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2017\/04\/22\/tax-and-human-development-the-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax and human development: the evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following discussion on tax and GDP over the last day or so (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2017\/04\/22\/why-on-earth-would-you-want-a-low-tax-economy\/\">here <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2017\/04\/21\/will-the-fact-that-tax-is-so-obviously-a-good-thing-be-discussed-during-this-election\/\">here<\/a>) Prof Charles Adams of Durham University has done some more research, linked aggregate tax rates and the UN inequality adjusted human development index. As he has noted:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Using the inequality adjusted human development index (IHDI) as opposed to the HDI does not make much difference.<\/p>\n<p>The same Heritage Foundation (2015) data has been used for the tax base.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/hdr.undp.org\/en\/content\/inequality-adjusted-human-development-index-ihdi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UN IHDI data <\/a>for 2012 has been used as I wanted to include China and India.<\/p>\n<p>In both cases there is a very strong correlation (only exception is Singapore and as we know that in fact Singapore\u2019s exceptionalism is built on state funded housing and transport, and geographical factors).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the chart of the findings:<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2017\/04\/22\/tax-and-human-development-the-evidence\/idhi_tax\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-37006\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-37006\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/idhi_tax-550x549.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/idhi_tax-550x549.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/idhi_tax-301x300.png 301w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/idhi_tax-768x766.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/idhi_tax-226x225.png 226w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/idhi_tax-132x132.png 132w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/idhi_tax.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>GDP may be important. Human development is even more important. The association is apparent. I am grateful to Charles for making the link.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following discussion on tax and GDP over the last day or so (see here and here) Prof Charles Adams of Durham University has done some<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2017\/04\/22\/tax-and-human-development-the-evidence\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-joy-of-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}