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The Multidimensional Stephan Klasen Exposure Index: Why Wonder woman should become a postdoc and wear white socks with sandals

Barros, Laura; von Grafenstein, Liza; Grosse, Melanie; … - 2020

"The job of a 'measure' or an 'index' is to distill what is particularly relevant for our purpose,and then to focus specifcally on that... That is not an easy task." Sen (1989). And that is precisely our aim. In this paper, a measurement for multidimensional exposure to Stephan Klasen is...

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A Simple Approach to Specifying the Weights of the HDI Index

Yu, Xiaohua - 2012

weights for the Human Development Index (HDI), and finds that the current equal-weighted HDI significantly biases down the … HDI. …

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A Human Development Index by Internal Migrational Status

Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan - 2009

applies a recently de- velopment analytical framework that allows to calculate the HDI for subgroups of a population. We use … this approach to calculate the HDI by internal migra- tional status to assess the di®erences between the levels of human …

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Identifying synergies and complementarities between MDGs: Results from cluster analysis

Bue, Maria Carmela Lo; Klasen, Stephan - 2012

The MDGs are interlinked: acceleration in one goal is likely to speed up progress in others. Nevertheless, these synergies are not always visible, and may differ across countries. Using bivariate cluster analysis, this paper investigates whether distinct groups of developing countries can be...

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Getting Progress Right: Measuring Progress Towards the MDGs Against Historical Trends

Klasen, Stephan; Lange, Simon - 2012

Most numerical targets within the framework of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are overly ambitious for the poorest countries when interpreted as country-specifi c goals. As a consequence, the current system undermines accountability and ownership and jeopardizes the public support the...

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A Reversal in the Relationship of Human Development with Fertility?

Harttgen, Kenneth; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2012

human development index (HDI) with the total fertility rate (TFR) reverses from negative (increases in HDI are associated … with decreases in TFR) to positive (increases in HDI are associated with increases in TFR) at a HDI level of 0.85. We … revisit this topic and find that the reversal in the HDI-TFR relationship is neither robust to UNDP's recent revision in the …

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Inequality in Human Development: An empirical assessment of thirty-two countries

Grimm, Michael; Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan; … - 2009

One of the most frequent critiques of the HDI is that it does not take into account inequality within countries in its … three dimensions. In this paper, we apply a simple approach to compute the three components and the overall HDI for … developed and industrialized countries. In fact, the HDI of the lowest quintiles in industrialized countries is often below the …

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UNDP's gender-related measures: Current problems and proposals for fixing them

Klasen, Stephan - 2017

In contrast to UNDP's wildly successful Human Development Index (HDI), UNDP's gender-related indices have had a rather …

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Cost-effectiveness of Disease Interventions in India

Chow, Jeffrey; Darley, Sarah R.; Laxminarayan, Ramanan - 2007

Health improvements in India, while significant, have not kept up with rapid economic growth rates. The poor in India face high out-of-pocket payments for health care, a significant burden of infectious diseases, and a rapidly increasing burden of non-communicable diseases. Against this...

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The Organization of Local Solid Waste and Recycling Markets: Public and Private Provision of Services

Macauley, Molly; Walls, Margaret; Anderson, Soren - 2002

We study determinants of market organization of local public services by an empiricalexamination of one of the most visible municipal services, residential waste management. Usinga multinomial logit model and data for 1,000 U.S. communities, we explore the effect of politicalinfluence, voter...

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