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Hope in Hard Times: Women’s Empowerment and Human Development

Desai, Manisha - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010

This paper addresses the conceptual and methodological issues related to women’s empowerment, the trends in women’s empowerment over the last 20 years in key areas such as education, health, economic and political participation, and finally the best practices of state and non-state actors in...

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Pursuing Clean Energy Equitably

Newell, Peter; Phillips, Jon; Mulvaney, Dustin - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2011

paper considers how national and global energy governance must adapt and change to ensure a just transition to low carbon … state of global energy governance. The necessary changes in energy decision making will entail complex trade-offs and …

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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 … community as a whole. It reviews some of the decentralized forms of governance which are evolving as developing countries assert … study in the inadequacies of current global governance. Finally, it uses the two imperatives mentioned to review the lessons …

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Measuring Key Disparities in Human Development: The Gender Inequality Index

Gaye, Amie; Klugman, Jeni; Kovacevic, Milorad; Twigg, Sarah - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010

Gender inequality remains a major barrier to human development. Girls and women have made major strides since 1990, but they have not yet gained gender equity. In this paper, we review ways to measure and monitor gender inequality, providing a critique of existing measures including the first...

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Divergences and Convergences in Human Development

Mayer-Foulkes, David - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010

I conduct a cross-country analysis of the human development index (HDI) components, income, life expectancy, literacy and gross enrolment ratios, using Gray and PurserÕs 1970-2005 quinquennial database for 111 countries. 1) A descriptive analysis uncovers a complex pattern of divergence and...

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Political Factors and Health Outcomes: Insight from Argentina's Provinces

McGuire, James W. - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010

This paper explores whether political factors were associated with health outcomes across Argentina's 23 provinces and Federal Capital from 1983 to 2005, controlling for national trends, per capita economic output, and other provincial specificities. The introduction of a gender quota for the...

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Determinants of Human Development: Insights from State-Dependent Panel Models

Binder, Michael; Georgiadis, Georgios - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010

In this paper, we study economic development in a panel of 84 countries from 1970 to 2005. We focus on characterizing heterogeneities in the development effects of macroeconomic policies and on comparing the development process as measured by GDP to that measured by the Human Development Index...

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ICT4D and the Human Development and Capability Approach: The Potentials of Information and Communication Technology

Hamel, Jean-Yves - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010

This study frames a review of information and communication technology for development (ICT4D) within the human development and capabilities approach. Looking at the basic dimensions of human development, which make up the core measurement of its achievements: health, education and a income, and...

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The disconnect between indicators of sustainability and human development

Fuentes-Nieva, Ricardo; Pereira, Isabel - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010

This paper presents an initial review of the theoretical and measurement discussions of sustainability and its relation to human development. As we show in this paper, there is an overall consensus about the importance of sustaining development and well-being over time, but in reality different...

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Progress in Health around the World

Canning, David - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010

Health is a key component of the human development index. This paper looks at how health is measured, how the level of health across countries is converging, and which countries are outliers to this global trend. We argue that conceptually health measures should account for illness as well as...

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