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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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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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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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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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’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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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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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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, Human Rights, Human Security, and Happiness. Inequality, the duration of outcomes across time, and environmental …
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This paper analyzes the impact of rural-to-urban migration on income inequality and gender wage gap in source regions … income inequality is time-persisting, we use a system GMM framework to control for the lagged income inequality, in which … inequality in the sending communities. Specifically, contemporary emigration increases income inequality, while lagged emigration …
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The 1998 Report investigates the 20th century's growth in consumption, unprecedented in its scale and diversity. The benefits of this consumption have spread far and wide. More people are better fed and housed than ever before. Living standards have risen to enable hundreds of millions to enjoy...
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