{"id":43389,"date":"2014-04-03T21:05:07","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T21:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/new_zealand_tops_social_progress_index_u-s-_comes_in_20th\/"},"modified":"2014-04-03T21:05:07","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T21:05:07","slug":"new_zealand_tops_social_progress_index_u-s-_comes_in_20th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43389","title":{"rendered":"(Reuters) New Zealand tops social progress index, U.S. Comes in 20th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand came first in a global index published on Thursday that ranks countries by social and environmental performance rather than economic output in a drive to make social progress a priority for politicians and businesses.<\/p>\n<p>The Social Progress Index (SPI) rates 132 countries on more than 50 indicators, including health, sanitation, shelter, personal safety, access to information, sustainability, tolerance and inclusion and access to education.<\/p>\n<p>The SPI asks questions such as whether a country can satisfy its people&#8217;s basic needs and whether it has the infrastructure and capacity to allow its citizens to improve the quality of their lives and reach their full potential.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/04\/03\/us-index-global-progress-idUSBREA3203R20140403\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand came first in a global index published on Thursday that ranks countries by social and environmental performance rather than economic output in a drive to make social progress a priority for politicians and businesses. The Social Progress Index<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43389\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,175,111,140,168,144,119,151,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-anthropology","category-education","category-energy-natural-resources","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-globalization","category-politics-in-general","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}