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Circular Migration and Human Development

Newland, Kathleen - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2009

over their own mobility. The human-development lens distinguishes between de facto circular migration and circular …

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HDR 2009 - Overcoming barriers: Human mobility and development

UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …

and trends in both growth and inequality. It also presents more detailed and nuanced individual, family and village …

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Precarious Residents: Migration Control, Membership and the Rights of Non-Citizens

Gibney, Matthew - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2009

This paper examines the situation of a subgroup of non-citizens found in virtually all contemporary states, what I call “precarious residents”. Precarious residents can be defined as non-citizens living in the state that possess few social, political or economic rights, are highly vulnerable...

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HDR 2011 - Sustainability and Equity: A Better Future for All

UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …

The 2011 Human Development Report argues that the urgent global challenges of sustainability and equity must be addressed together – and identifies policies on the national and global level that could spur mutually reinforcing progress towards these interlinked goals. Bold action is needed on...

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Inequality Decomposition without Income or Expenditure Data: Using an Asset Index to Simulate Household Income

Harttgen, Kenneth; Vollmer, Sebastian - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2011

limitation puts severe constraints on standard poverty and inequality analyses. We provide a simple approach to simulate … approach with DHS data for Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Indonesia and Zambia. We calculate standard inequality measures and decompose … inequality by urban/rural, sex of the household head, household size and education of the household head. …

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Sustainability and Inequality in Human Development

Neumayer, Eric - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2011

This paper analyzes the theoretical and empirical links between inequality in human development on the one hand and … sustainability on the other. It specifically looks at causality in both directions. Inequality in various dimensions of human …

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A Review of Human Development Trends in South Asia: 1990-2009

Kumar, Avinash - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010

This paper is a review of the broad human development trends in the South Asian region over the last twenty years. It attempts to identify the changing patterns, the region’s persisting sluggish performance on human development indicators in general as well as country-specific and intracountry...

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Economic crises and Inequality

Atkinson, Anthony B.; Morelli, Salvatore - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2011

’s citizens against their consequences. This paper is concerned with the impact of economic crises on the inequality of resources … and with the impact of inequality on the probability of economic crises. Is it the poor who bear the brunt? Or are crises … prior increases in inequality? Have previous periods of high inequality led to crises? What can we learn from previous …

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Human Development in Europe

Stewart, Kitty - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010

This paper examines levels and trends in human development in the 27 European Union Member States and four of the EU’s nearest neighbours (Iceland, Switzerland, Norway and Turkey). Its starting point is the UNDP Human Development Index but the paper goes beyond the HDI in three main ways....

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Global Governance and Human Development: Promoting Democratic Accountability and Institutional Experimentation

Jayadev, Arjun - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010

This paper seeks to critically examine recent debates on global governance, albeit from a human development perspective. In doing so it identifies and describes two important principles for building institutions for the advancing of human development: what may be termed the imperative of...

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