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Getting Progress Right: Measuring Progress Towards the MDGs Against Historical Trends

Klasen, Stephan; Lange, Simon - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2011

Most numerical targets within the framework of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are overly ambitious for the … and ownership and jeopardizes the public support the MDGs have drawn in the past. This paper proposes an alternative … approach to evaluating progress towards non-income MDGs that allows a sensible appraisal of countries' progress. We first …

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Identifying synergies and complementarities between MDGs: Results from cluster analysis

Bue, Maria Carmela Lo; Klasen, Stephan - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2012

The MDGs are interlinked: acceleration in one goal is likely to speed up progress in others. Nevertheless, these …”, characterized by strong positive synergies in MDGs indicators; [2] “poor performers”, where there are synergies in poor progress … towards the MDGs and [3] “partial performers” countries where progress in one MDG went along with regress or stagnation in …

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A Reversal in the Relationship of Human Development with Fertility?

Harttgen, Kenneth; Vollmer, Sebastian - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2012

For more than a hundred years, advances in development were associated with decreasing fertility rates. This led to total fertility rates far below replacement level in most developed countries. However, during the last decade fertility rates started to increase again in various developed...

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A Human Development Index by Internal Migrational Status

Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2009

Migration continues to be a very important income diversi¯cation strategy, es- pecially for poor populations in developing countries. However, while there has been much analysis on the economic consequences of migration for migrants and the receiving regions, whether internal migration improves...

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Inequality in Human Development: An empirical assessment of thirty-two countries

Grimm, Michael; Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan; … - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2009

One of the most frequent critiques of the HDI is that it does not take into account inequality within countries in its three dimensions. In this paper, we apply a simple approach to compute the three components and the overall HDI for quintiles of the income distribution. This allows comparison...

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Fragility and MDG Progress: How useful is the Fragility Concept?

Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2010

empirical analysis exists that investigates to what extent the levels and trends in the MDGs differ significantly between … analyze levels and progress of the MDGs between 1990 and 2008 of fragile and non-fragile developing countries. It shows that …

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Undernutrition and the Nutrition Transition: Revising the undernutrition aspect of MDG I

Misselhorn, Mark - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2010

Since the publication of the new multi-country reference standard by WHO it is likely that future progress in the ght against undernutrition will be tracked by using this new standard. The use of the new reference standard will result in clear changes in the prevalence and composition of...

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What drives child health improvements in Indonesian households? A micro-level perspective on complementarities in MDG achievements

Bue, Maria Carmela Lo - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2014

Using panel data from Indonesia, this paper analyzes the linkages between child nutrition, health care, household wealth and parental education in order to detect transmission channels between health, education, nutrition, water and sanitation access, five critical MDG targets. This paper...

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