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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010843565
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The Challenges of Incorporating Empowerment into the HDI: Some Lessons from Happiness Economics and Quality of Life Research
Graham, Carol - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010
macroeconomic conditions. Sen’s capabilities approach to poverty, which underlies the HDI, highlights the lack of capacity of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008587041
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The Moving Middle: Migration, Place Premiums and Human Development in Bolivia
Gray Molina, George; Yañez, Ernesto - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2009
Over half of Bolivian heads of household are lifetime migrants. This paper looks at the long term impact of internal migration over human development in Bolivia. Three issues frame these effects. First, twenty five years of rural to urban migration have transformed the demographic profile of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008507001
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The HDI 2010: New Controversies, Old Critiques
Klugman, Jeni; Rodríguez, Francisco; Choi, Hyung-Jin - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2011
Since its introduction in the first Human Development Report in 1990, the Human Development Index (HDI) has attracted great interest in policy and academic circles, as well as in the media and national audiences around the world. Its popularity can be attributed to the simplicity of its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010611340
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A Review of Conceptual and Measurement Innovations in National and Regional Human Development Reports, 1998-2009
Gaye, Amie; Jha, Shreyasi - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010
This paper presents the results from an analysis of sub-national, national and regional human development reports nominated for the Human Development Awards between 1998 and 2009 to highlight conceptual and measurement innovations in human development. Through a careful selection process, nearly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008587037
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Acute Multidimensional Poverty: A New Index for Developing Countries
Alkire, Sabina; Santos, Maria Emma - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010
This paper presents a new Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) for 104 developing countries. It is the first time … multidimensional poverty is estimated using micro datasets (household surveys) for such a large number of countries which cover about … 78 percent of the world´s population. The MPI has the mathematical structure of one of the Alkire and Foster poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008587043
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Human Development Trends since 1970: A Social Convergence Story
Gray Molina, George Gray Molina and Mark Purser - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010
This paper uses a unique data set of the Human Development Index to describe long-run human development trends for 111 countries, from 1970 to 2005. The first part of the paper shows trends by region, period and index subcomponent. We find that 110 of the 111 countries show progress in their HDI...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008504428
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Is There a Numbers vs. Rights Trade-off in Immigration Policy? What the Data Say
Cummins, Matthew; Rodriguez, Francisco - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2009
This paper explores the empirical support behind the idea that there is a trade-off between the size of the migrant population and the rights and entitlements enjoyed by immigrants. We first look at the empirical correlation between measures of migrants’ rights and the size of the stock of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506983
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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 development is analyzed with respect to both weak and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010611332
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Heterogeneity and Collective Action for Forest Management
Nagendra, Harini - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2011
poverty and inequity. These challenges can be dealt with effectively by strong local institutions and federations. Governments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010611331