index. The governance index is computed as the weighted average of principal components of the standardized governance …-dimensional, it is conceptualised as a goal and as a process that accelerates growth, equity and human development potential. We … therefore estimate the governance index on the basis of five indicators, such as crime rates, riots, industrial disputes and …

development in Italy. The analysis draws on a dataset collected by the author including about two hundred variables representing … different aspects of economic development and four “structural” dimensions of social capital. The quality of development is … measured through human development and indicators of the state of health of urban ecosystems, public services, gender equality …

development in Italy. The analysis draws on a dataset collected by the author including about two hundred variables representing … different aspects of economic development and four “structural” dimensions of social capital. The quality of development is … measured through human development and indicators of the state of health of urban ecosystems, public services, gender equality …

Africa, Latin America or Asia. Recent financial and economic regional crises ranging from Mexico to Russia and East Asia, the … failure of the New Millennium ‘Development’ Trade Round in Seattle, hot debates at the UNCTAD-10 Conference in Bangkok, and … is still far from over. Yet what is globalisation? Is it good or bad for human development? How does it affect the …

Concept of human development and its measurement as introduced by UNDP in the first Human Development Report 1990 is an … approach to measure economic development. It is a composite measure of economic progress and a better substitute to Per Capita … Income (measure) that could neither capture nor exhibit exact level of development of human beings nor that of nations …

This paper deals with poverty, health, education and human deprivation among Indian States. Human development evaluates … development in conglomerative perspective where as human depeivation analyse it in deprivational perspective. Deprivation in … imperative for overall development. This paper proposes a new formula to analyse human deprivation by the help of poverty line …

development in Italy. The analysis draws on a dataset collected by the author including about two hundred variables representing … different aspects of economic development and four “structural” dimensions of social capital. The quality of development is … measured through human development and indicators of the state of health of urban ecosystems, public services, gender equality …

attainment are used. In particular, human development indices do not show the same increase in regional inequality. Furthermore …

and services comparable across areas, is a difficult task. In this paper we attempt to construct a cost-of-living index …

In this paper we develop an index for comparing the cost of doing business across several metropolitan areas in the U ….S. Such indices can be used as leading indicators of metropolitan economic growth. To create the index, we first identify … compare the metropolitan areas on the basis of the climate that they provide for business development. We use both industry …