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Sustainable Development Framework for Local Governance
Cabalfin, Michael R.; Yap, Josef T. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
inequality; and the importance of institutions to growth. Local development experience also reveals the interrelatedness of the …; the role of health to human capital; the significance of human capital to poverty and inequality; the value of human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363564
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Gender-based Indicators in Human Development - Correcting for ‘Missing Women’
Nathan, Hippu Salk Kristle - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
Gender Development Index and Gender Empowerment Measure are two gender-based indicators provided by the United Nations Development Program. Population share of the genders enter the formulation of these indicators in such a way that it favours the better performing gender. This can lead to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363671
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Rising Inequality in Asia and Policy Implications
Zhuang, Juzhong; Kanbur, Ravi; Rhee, Changyong - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2014
This paper looks at the recent trends of rising inequality in developing Asia, asks why inequality matters, examines … the driving forces of rising inequality, and proposes policy options for tackling high and rising inequality … inequality. The three drivers of rising inequality cannot and should not be blocked, because they are the same forces that drive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011134371
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Rising Inequality in Asia and Policy Implications
Zhuang, Juzhong; Kanbur, Ravi; Rhee, Changyong - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2014
This paper looks at the recent trends of rising inequality in developing Asia, asks why inequality matters, examines … the driving forces of rising inequality, and proposes policy options for tackling high and rising inequality … inequality. The three drivers of rising inequality cannot and should not be blocked, because they are the same forces that drive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011134393
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Poverty and Agrarian Distress in Orissa
Mishra, Srijit - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
The relatively lower reduction of poverty in Orissa, 0.2 percentage points per annum from 48.6% in 1993-94 to 46.4% in 2004-05, has been a matter of concern. The current exercise attempts to analyse whether part of the explanation lies in the state of affairs in agriculture. An analysis for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365289
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Human Resource Development and Poverty in the Philippines
Lam, Le Thi Ai - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
In the last twenty years, the Philippines has gained a good progress in poverty reduction. However, compared to other countries in the region, the Philippines is still behind. In the early years of the 21st century, more than a third of the Philippine population lives below the poverty line....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365293
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An Alternative Approach to Measure HDI
Nathan, Hippu Salk Kristle; Mishra, Srijit; Reddy, B. … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
The popularly known Human Development Index (HDI) is obtained through linear averaging (LA) of indices in three dimensions - health, education and standard of living. LA method assumes perfect substitutability among the indices. We question its appropriateness and propose an alternative measure,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363733
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On Measuring Group Differential - Some Further Results
Nathan, Hippu Salk Kristle; Mishra, Srijit - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
We impose a value judgment that a decrease in failure should be accompanied by a decrease in gap (difference or ratio) between sub-groups. In other words, the same gap at lower levels of failure is to be considered worse off. This, in line with transfer sensitivity axiom of poverty indices, is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365215
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On A Class of Human Development Index Measures
Mishra, Srijit; Nathan, Hippu Salk Kristle - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
Using Minkowski distance function we propose a class of Human Development Index measures. Special cases of this turn out to be the popularly used linear average method as also a newly proposed displaced ideal method. Two measures of penalty are suggested. One captures the non-uniform attainment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365246
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Does Governance Contribute to Pro-poor Growth? Evidence from Pakistan
Haq, Rashida; Zia, Uzma - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
the lowest percentile as compared to other countries. The dimensions of pro-poor growth, which include poverty, inequality … inequality have worsened and the share in income and expenditure for the bottom 20 percent has also decreased, while inflation … that there is a strong relationship between good governance and reduction in poverty and inequality. It is concluded that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365047