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Improving the Measurement of Human Development

Herrero, Carmen; Martínez, Ricardo; Villar, Antonio - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010

We propose a new Human Development Index that involves a number of changes with respect to the present one, even though it keeps the basic structure of the index (namely, preserving “health”, “education” and “material wellbeing” as the three basic dimensions of human development)....

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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...

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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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Pursuing Clean Energy Equitably

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

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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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...

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A Review of Human Development Trends in South Asia: 1990-2009

Kumar, Avinash - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010

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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The Declining Labor Share of Income

Rodriguez, Francisco; Jayadev, Arjun - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010

We use two distinct panel datasets to extract and examine data on the labor share of output. From the first, we examine trends in the economy-wide labor share and from the second, we examine trends in the labor share of the manufacturing sector over the last three decades. Both datasets show...

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Understanding Performance in Human Development: A Cross-National Study

Gidwitz, Zachary; Heger, Martin Philipp; Pineda, José; … - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010

This paper introduces a new and comprehensive Human Development Index (HDI) trends dataset for 135 countries and 40 …. While we confirm the existence of continued divergence in per capita income, we find the inverse for HDI. We find no … statistically significant correlation between growth and non-income HDI improvements over a forty year period. We also examine some …

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Forecasting the Impacts of Environmental Constraints on Human Development

Hughes, Barry B.; Irfan, Mohammod T.; Moyer, Jonathan D.; … - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2011

future human development. Using the Human Development Index (HDI) and its separate components as our key measures of … most resilient. Education advance is the aspect of development tapped by the HDI that is most likely to continue even in …

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Sustainable Cooperation in Global Climate Policy: Specific Formulas and Emission Targets to Build on Copenhagen and Cancun Abstract: We offer a framework to assign quantitative all...

Bosetti, Valentina; Frankel, Jeffrey - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2011

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