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Global development goal setting as a policy tool for global governance: Intended and unintended consequences

Fukuda-Parr, Sakiko - 2013

priority global objectives. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are the most prominent example of such goals, but many … influencing international development strategies and action. It analyses the MDGs as an example to argue that global goals …

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Are the MDGs priority in development strategies and aid programmes? Only few are!

Fukuda-Parr, Sakiko - 2008

The gap between strong political commitment to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and slow progress towards … emphasise governance as an important means of achieving the MDGs, but they focus mostly on economic governance rather than on … democratic (participatory and equitable) processes. Since the key motivation for the MDGs as reflected in the Millennium …

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On the origin of r-concavity and related concepts

Balogh, Tamás L.; Ewerhart, Christian - 2015

In a less widely known contribution, Béla Martos (1966, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) introduced a generalized notion of concavity that is closely related to what is nowadays known as r-concavity in the operations research literature, and that is identical to what is nowadays known as...

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A dynamical systems approach to modeling human development

Ranganathan, Shyam; Swain, Ranjula Bali; Sumpter, David … - 2014

A key aim of economics is to set goals and investigate the relationship between various socio-economic indicators. By fitting time series data using a Bayesian dynamical systems approach we identify non-linear interactions between GDP, child mortality, fertility rate and female education. We...

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Temporary star or emerging tiger? Turkey's recent economic performance in a global setting

Öniş, Ziya; Bayram, İsmail Emre - 2008

This article assesses the recent performance of the Turkish economy, questioning whether the currently observed unusual boom conditions will lead to a process of sustainable growth. The latest phase of Turkish neo-liberal transformation in the post-2001 era is placed in a broader historical and...

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Gender dimensions of inequality in the countries of Central Asia, South Caucasus, and Western CIS

Khitarishvili, Tamar - 2016

The collapse of the Soviet Union initiated an unprecedented social and economic transformation of the successor countries and altered the gender balance in a region that counted gender equality as one of the key legacies of its socialist past. The transition experience of the region has amply...

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The 2030 sustainable development goals and measuring gender inequality: A technical articulation for Asia-Pacific

Aggarwal, Bhavya; Chakraborty, Lekha S. - 2016

Against the backdrop of the 2030 UN Agenda for Sustainable Development, this paper analyzes the measurement issues in gender-based indices constructed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and suggests alternatives for choice of variables, functional form, and weights. While the...

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Human development and land tenure in Brazil

Valadares, Alexandre Arbex; da Silveira, Fernando Gaiger; … - 2017

The perpetuation of profound socio-economic inequalities between the countryside and the city, inscribed in the differences between their respective quality of life indicators, allows us to state that rural and urban environments still have distinct social realities, despite territorial...

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Impact of Special Economic Zones on Employment, Poverty and Human Development

Aggarwal, Aradhna - 2007

This study aims at examining the impact of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) on human development and poverty reduction in India. It identifies three channels through which SEZs address these issues: employment generation, skill formation (human capital development), and technology and knowledge...

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Land, poverty and human development in Kenya

wa Githinji, Mwangi - 2011

The question of poverty has become central to the work of development economists in the last decade and a half. The 2000 World Development Report was entitled Attacking Poverty and the UN held a series of World Conferences in the 1990s, all of which addressed in some form or fashion the problem...

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