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Pursuing Clean Energy Equitably
Newell, Peter; Phillips, Jon; Mulvaney, Dustin - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2011
paper considers how national and global energy governance must adapt and change to ensure a just transition to low carbon … state of global energy governance. The necessary changes in energy decision making will entail complex trade-offs and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010843564
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Global Governance and Human Development: Promoting Democratic Accountability and Institutional Experimentation
Jayadev, Arjun - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010
This paper seeks to critically examine recent debates on global governance, albeit from a human development perspective … community as a whole. It reviews some of the decentralized forms of governance which are evolving as developing countries assert … study in the inadequacies of current global governance. Finally, it uses the two imperatives mentioned to review the lessons …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008504426
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Measuring Key Disparities in Human Development: The Gender Inequality Index
Gaye, Amie; Klugman, Jeni; Kovacevic, Milorad; Twigg, Sarah - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010
Gender inequality remains a major barrier to human development. Girls and women have made major strides since 1990, but they have not yet gained gender equity. In this paper, we review ways to measure and monitor gender inequality, providing a critique of existing measures including the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010611341
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A Human Development Index by Income Groups
Misselhorn, Mark; Klasen, Stephan; Harttgen, Kenneth; … - 2007
One of the most frequent critiques of the HDI is that is does not take into account inequality within countries. We suggest a relatively easy and intuitive approach which allows to compute the three components and the overall HDI for quintiles of the income distribution. This allows comparisons...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296026
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Acute Multidimensional Poverty: A New Index for Developing Countries
Alkire, Sabina; Santos, María Emma - 2011
This paper presents a new Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) for 104 developing countries. It is the first time multidimensional poverty is estimated using micro datasets (household surveys) for such a large number of countries which cover about 78 percent of the world's population. The MPI...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305597
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Grassroots Innovation for Human Development: Exploring the Potential of Participatory Video
Boni, Alejandra; Leivas, Monique; De La Fuente, Teresa; … - In: International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP) 7 (2016) 4, pp. 26-39
Can digital technologies serve to highlight and strengthen the work of social organizations that promote human development? This is the question the authors want to answer in this article, in which they analyse an eight-month participatory video (PV) process, promoted by a group of university...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012044609
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396729
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A Human Development Index by Internal Migrational Status
Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan - 2009
Migration continues to be a very important income diversi¯cation strategy, es- pecially for poor populations in developing countries. However, while there has been much analysis on the economic consequences of migration for migrants and the receiving regions, whether internal migration improves...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329903
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Identifying synergies and complementarities between MDGs: Results from cluster analysis
Bue, Maria Carmela Lo; Klasen, Stephan - 2012
The MDGs are interlinked: acceleration in one goal is likely to speed up progress in others. Nevertheless, these synergies are not always visible, and may differ across countries. Using bivariate cluster analysis, this paper investigates whether distinct groups of developing countries can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329931
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Inequality in Human Development: An empirical assessment of thirty-two countries
Grimm, Michael; Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan; … - 2009
One of the most frequent critiques of the HDI is that it does not take into account inequality within countries in its three dimensions. In this paper, we apply a simple approach to compute the three components and the overall HDI for quintiles of the income distribution. This allows comparison...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330015