years ahead will have a profound bearing on the future course of human development. The world lacks neither the financial …Climate change is the defining human development challenge of the 21st Century. Failure to respond to that challenge … future, no country — however wealthy or powerful — will be immune to the impact of global warming.The Human Development …

future concerns. Subjective well-being is the single most important, but necessarily not the only, indicator of progress …. This entry also briefly discusses: recent history of well-being measurement; what makes people better off in theory; the …

Sen’s influential work on human development has led economists to explore new areas that have become increasingly … framework that uses fuzzy-set theory to measure human well-being in consistence with Sen’s Capability Approach. The results … indicate that the UNDP's Human Development Index and human well-being, as measured using fuzzy sets, yield different country …

The main goal of the paper is to investigate the link between economic growth and human development in Republic of … Macedonia. The concept of human development and quality of life is wider concept than economic growth, which means that economic … growth not every time and in any case promotes human development and quality of life. Hence, our main goal is to investigate …

We argue against the use of composite indices, such as the Human Development Index (HDI), in economic history. We show …

the annual data from the United Nation's Humasn Development Index (HDI) nor data used in the World Happiness Report from …Using micro-data on six surveys - the Gallup World Poll 2005-2023, the U.S. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System … the Gallup World Poll shifted much in response to negative shocks. The HDI has been rising in the last decade or so …