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HDR 2011 - Sustainability and Equity: A Better Future for All

UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …

The 2011 Human Development Report argues that the urgent global challenges of sustainability and equity must be addressed together – and identifies policies on the national and global level that could spur mutually reinforcing progress towards these interlinked goals. Bold action is needed on...

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HDR 2010 - The Real Wealth of Nations: Pathways to Human Development

UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …

The 2010 Report continues the tradition of pushing the frontiers of development thinking. For the first time since 1990, the Report looks back rigorously at the past several decades and identifies often surprising trends and patterns with important lessons for the future. These varied pathways...

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HDR 1998 - Consumption for Human Development

UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …

The 1998 Report investigates the 20th century's growth in consumption, unprecedented in its scale and diversity. The benefits of this consumption have spread far and wide. More people are better fed and housed than ever before. Living standards have risen to enable hundreds of millions to enjoy...

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HDR 2007/2008 - Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world

UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …

already destroying opportunity and reinforcing inequality. Meanwhile, there is now overwhelming scientific evidence that the …

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HDR 2005 - International cooperation at a crossroads: Aid, trade and security in an unequal world

UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …

beyond statistics; it highlights the human costs of missed targets and broken promises. Extreme inequality between countries …

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HDR 1999 - Globalization with a Human Face

UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …

Global markets, global technology, global ideas and global solidarity can enrich the lives of people everywhere. The challenge is to ensure that the benefits are shared equitably and that this increasing interdependence works for people—not just for profits. This year’s Report argues that...

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HDR 1996 - Economic Growth and Human Development

UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …

The 1996 Report opens with a fundamental statement: "Human development is the end - economic growth a means." The Report argues that economic growth, if not properly managed, can be jobless, voiceless, ruthless, rootless and futureless, and thus detrimental to human development. The quality of...

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Regression Discontinuity Designs in Economics

Lemieux, Thomas; Lee, David S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

This paper provides an introduction and "user guide" to Regression Discontinuity (RD) designs for empirical researchers. It presents the basic theory behind the research design, details when RD is likely to be valid or invalid given economic incentives, explains why it is considered a...

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Urban Inequality

Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Resseger, Matthew G.; Tobio, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

inequality and the growth of both income and population, once we control for the initial distribution of skills. What determines … poverty, but today, inequality is more strongly linked to the presence of the wealthy. Inequality in skills can explain about …What impact does inequality have on metropolitan areas? Crime rates are higher in places with more inequality, and …

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Social Capital and Urban Growth

Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Redlick, Charles - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

Social capital is often place-specific while schooling is portable, so the prospect of migration may reduce the returns to social capital and increase the returns to schooling. If social capital matters for urban success, it is possible that an area can get caught in a bad equilibrium where the...

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