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Ranis, Gustav - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2011

Human development, in combination with technology, yields economic growth which, in turn, is necessary to generate further advances in human development. This paper focuses on the first channel above and finds the relationship significant. Secondly, the paper tries to investigate what affects...

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Human Development: Beyond the Human Development Index

Ranis, Gustav; Stewart, Frances; Samman, Emma - In: Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 7 (2006) 3, pp. 323-358

The well-known Human Development Index (HDI) encompasses only three rather basic aspects of human welfare. This paper … highly correlated with the HDI and may therefore be represented by it. But 31 are not highly correlated, suggesting that a … full assessment of human development requires a much broader set of indicators than the HDI alone. Following the same …

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Decentralization and Human Development in Argentina

Habibi, Nadir; Huang, Cindy; Miranda, Diego; Murillo, … - In: Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 4 (2003) 1, pp. 73-101

The human development impact of decentralization is the central focus of this paper, which addresses evolving patterns of fiscal decentralization in Argentina based on health and education indicators. The authors use previously unavailable data to look at decentralization in Argentina over time,...

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Successful transition towards a virtuous cycle of human development and economic growth : country studies

Ranis, Gustav; Stewart, Frances - 2007

This paper explores the two-way links between Economic Growth and Human Development by examining the performance of some countries which have been successful in both dimensions and a few which have not. The specific aim is to examine the historical experience of six countries in order to...

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Country patterns of behavior on broader dimensions of human development

Ranis, Gustav; Stewart, Frances; Samman, Emma - 2007

This paper adopts a more expansive definition of Human Development than that encompassed by the Human Development Index in order to explore diverse country patterns of behavior in relation to these broadened dimensions. We proceed by first identifying the dimensions to be investigated and...

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Economics, area studies and human development

Ranis, Gustav - 2009

This paper suggests that area studies and economics have a better chance to be married successfully if we shift our attention from the exclusive emphasis on economic growth towards improvements in human development, especially the much broadened version of that concept. Different areas are shown...

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Technology and human development

Ranis, Gustav - 2011

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Dynamic Links between the Economy and Human Development

Ranis, Gustav; Stewart, Frances - Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations - 2005

This paper empirically confirms the significance of various links in each of two chains over time: from economic growth (EG) to human development (HD), including EG itself, income distribution, the social expenditure ratio and female education; from HD to EG, including HD itself, along with the...

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Success and Failure in Human Development, 1970-2007

Ranis, Gustav; Stewart, Frances - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010

fastest growth in the HDI over the period are selected from initial low-HDI, middle HDI- and high HDI country groupings, and … beyond the HDI as an indicator of HD, explore such other features as political freedoms, security and environmental … failure with respect to the HDI. Finally we provide short country vignettes of some of the success and failure cases …

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Decentralization in Argentina

Habibi, Nadir; Huang, Cindy; Miranda, Diego; Murillo, … - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2001

Human development, reflected in the status of people's levels of health and education, affects future growth and, in turn, is affected by decentralization. Unlike earlier exclusive emphasis on budgetary issues, this study focuses on the impact of fiscal decentralization on the level of human...

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