Since its inception, the main analytical contribution of the Human Development Index (HDI) has been its emphasis on enhancing the quantity of its components. In this paper, a set of qualitative indicators are introduced in order to formulate a quality-adjusted human development index (Q-HDI)...

The four Arab Human Development Reports 2002-2005, sponsored by the United Nations Development Program, have attracted more attention and controversy than any other official studies of development in recent years. Celebrated by many Western commentators as a courageous exercise in self-criticism...

The first Human Development Report in 1990 opened with the simply stated premise that has guided all subsequent Reports: "People are the real wealth of a nation." By backing up this assertion with an abundance of empirical data and a new way of thinking about and measuring development, the Human...

Overview of the 1992 Human Development Report. The 1992 Human Development Report is the third in an annual series sponsored by UNDP since 1990. The central thesis of these reports is that it is people who matter -- beyond the confusing maze of GNP numbers, beyond the curling smoke of industrial...

In order to determine the inequalities in human development by regions in Romania, the human development index adjusted to inequalities will be used. This index is used when there are inequalities in distribution for each value in part across the population and, especially, when there are...

This study explores the relationship between women heads-of-state and their impact on Human Development in their country. Mainly, the intent of this paper is to determine whether women heads-of-state do a better job as compared to their male counterparts in improving health, education and...

We may be entering a new geologic age called the Anthropocene in which humans are a dominant force shaping the planet’s future. That future is already taking frightening shape in many ways, from climate change to plunging biodiversity to the epidemic of plastics in our oceans.The strain on the...

Migration, both within and beyond borders, has become an increasingly prominent theme in domestic and international debates, and is the topic of the 2009 Human Development Report (HDR09). The starting point is that the global distribution of capabilities is extraordinarily unequal, and that this...