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The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is an important body of the United Nations for development issues. It … is also responsible for the construction and publication of the Human Development Index (HDI). The UNDP is present in … define the elements which allow the establishment of limits to the UNDP?s action. The purpose of this paper is to identify …
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This essay inquires into the characteristics and historical possibilities of a Developmental State built on democracy, in opposition to the East Asian Developmental State historical model. After a brief introduction, this model and the capitalism development the underdeveloped peoples crave are...
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This text aims at making a conceptual analysis of the capabilities approach (development as freedom) proposed by the Indian economist and philosopher Amartya Sen. It seeks to provide a broad view on the conceptual web of Sen's approach; thereafter it points out some issues that are relevant to...
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The word Matopiba refers to the region that is formed by municipalities in the frontier of the states of Maranhão, Tocantins, Piauí and Bahia, which in the last two decades has been rapid transformations in its dynamics of land occupation due to expansion of the agricultural activity, a...
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This essay inquires into the characteristics and historical possibilities of a Developmental State built on democracy, in opposition to the East Asian Developmental State historical model. After a brief introduction, this model and the capitalism development the underdeveloped peoples crave are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010405080
The word Matopiba refers to the region that is formed by municipalities in the frontier of the states of Maranhão, Tocantins, Piauí and Bahia, which in the last two decades has been rapid transformations in its dynamics of land occupation due to expansion of the agricultural activity, a...
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This article evaluates the relationship between scientific and technological production and the degree of human development in Brazil, on a municipal level. The variables used can be divided into seven groups: human development index, urban infrastructure, cultural infrastructure, incentives...
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