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Human Development: Definitions, Critiques, and Related Concepts

Alkire, Sabina - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010

, Human Rights, Human Security, and Happiness. Inequality, the duration of outcomes across time, and environmental …

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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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Advances in sub national measurement of the Human Development Index: The case of Mexico

de la Torre, Rodolfo; Moreno, Hector - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010

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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Designing the Inequality-Adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI)

Alkire, Sabina; Foster, James - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010

, inequality, is ignored by the traditional HDI. In practical terms this means that any two countries having the same mean …

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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 … approach with DHS data for Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Indonesia and Zambia. We calculate standard inequality measures and decompose … inequality by urban/rural, sex of the household head, household size and education of the household head. …

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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 years of annual data. We apply this dataset to answer several empirical questions related to the evolution of human development over the last 40 years. The data reveal overall...

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Curse or Blessing? Natural Resources and Human Development

Pineda, José Pineda and Francisco Rodríguez - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010

This paper argues against a natural resource curse for human development. We find evidence that changes in human development from 1970 to 2005, proxied by changes in the Human Development Index, are positively and significantly correlated with natural resource abundance. While our results are...

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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

Environmental constraints have always had and will always have important consequences for human development. It has sometimes contributed to or even caused the reversal of such development. The possibility that such constraints will grow significantly throughout this century raises the concern...

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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...

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Trafficking in Persons and Human Development: Towards A More Integrated Policy Response

Laczko, Frank; Danailova-Trainor, Gergana - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2009

Poverty is often regarded as the "root cause" of trafficking, but the linkages between poverty, lack of development and trafficking are complex. For example, there is some evidence to suggest that victims of cross-border trafficking are more likely to originate from middle-income rather than...

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