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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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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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This paper analyzes the impact of rural-to-urban migration on income inequality and gender wage gap in source regions … using a newly constructed panel dataset for around 100 villages over a ten-year period from 1997 to 2006 in China. Since … income inequality is time-persisting, we use a system GMM framework to control for the lagged income inequality, in which …
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migration on development, and municipal data is applied to decompose inequality indices to identify the sources and regions … contributing to overall human development inequality. Second, conceptual adjustments consider introducing two additional dimensions … from the Mexican National Reports to the HDI literature is the proposal of an inequality sensitive development index based …
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, inequality, is ignored by the traditional HDI. In practical terms this means that any two countries having the same mean …
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The main characteristic of the Latin American migration on the 20th century was the change of flow. Until the 1950s, Latin America received migrants from Europe and the Middle East. As a result of economic change, political instability, and economic crisis, Latin America started exporting...
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This paper explores the opportunities for a ‘just transition’ to low carbon and sustainable energy systems; one that addresses the current inequities in the distribution of energy benefits and their human and ecological costs. In order to prioritize policies that address energy poverty...
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widespread human deprivation and inequality. The measures of human development based on these indicators are also averages, and … summary measure of HD capabilities and achievements, there is no a consensus about how to measure inequality in the HD … given as major obstacles for not adjusting the HDI for inequality. The objective of this paper is to first review some …
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In 2010 the UNDP unveiled a new methodology for the calculation of the Human Development Index (HDI). In this paper I investigate the normative and practical properties of this change vis a vis the original formulation of the HDI in 1990. The main conceptual innovation of the new index can be...
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