To investigate the nexus between the investment development path (IDP) and human development, we modelled the human development (human development index, HDI) using generalized estimation equations and accounted for the unit interval property using non-linear link functions. The gross domestic...

This study examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on human development and demonstrates the moderating role of governance on the relationship between FDI and human development in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) from 2001 to 2018 using fixed-effect and two-stage...

Several studies in the literature have identified the critical role of financial technology (fintech) in improving socio-economic conditions of nations, measured by human development index (HDI). However, despite the efforts to increase HDI using fintech, the ranking of African countries on the...

The colony of Lower Canada, now the modern-day province of Quebec in Canada, is presented as having experienced a prolonged agricultural crisis (marked by the shift away from wheat-farming) during the first decades of the nineteenth century. During this crisis, living standards supposedly fell,...

The colony of Lower Canada, now the modern-day province of Quebec in Canada, is presented as having experienced a prolonged agricultural crisis (marked by the shift away from wheat-farming) during the first decades of the nineteenth century. During this crisis, living standards supposedly fell,...

In this note we examine the relationship between Human Development Index (HDI) used by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to assess and monitor the progress of social and economic development within and across nations and the Intensity of Multi-Dimensional poverty as developed by Oxford...

Thirty years ago, UNDP created a new way to conceive and measure progress. Instead of using growth in GDP as the sole measure of development, we ranked the world’s countries by their human development: by whether people in each country have the freedom and opportunity to live the lives they...

This study analyses the role of energy use in countries with heterogeneous development paths. Energy is a fundamental input in human activities and a broad literature attests the link between energy and economic growth, usually measured by gross domestic product (GDP). We examine how this...

For years, German development cooperation (GDC) has been striving to become more results-oriented. In 2022, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) took an important step in this direction by introducing 43 standard indicators. The aim was to aggregate development...