life," such as health and equality of opportunity. However, per capita GDP has the virtues of easy interpretation and can … preserves the advantages of per capita GDP, but also includes health and equality. We propose a new parsimonious indicator to …

Migration continues to be a very important income diversification strategy, especially for poor populations in … empirical illustration for a sample of 16 low and middle income countries shows that, overall, internal migrants slightly … achieve a higher level of human development than non-migrants. The results further show that differences in income between …

quintiles of the income distribution. This allows comparison of the level in human development of the poor with the level of the …) to a sample of 21 low and middle income countries and 11 industrialized countries. In particular the inclusion of the … HDI of the richest quintile in many middle income countries. We also find, however, a strong overall negative correlation …

institutions, they are more conducive than non-democratic alternatives to the growth of per capita income, which is an important … elements of human development, longevity and knowledge - democracy has a positive effect on indicators of education and health …