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Community involvement and development : an inter-marriage of ISO 26000 and millennium development goals
Katamba, David; Nkiko, Cedric Marvin; Tushabomwe … - In: International journal of social economics 41 (2014) 9, pp. 837-861
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Are we on the right path to achieve the sustainable development goals?
Moyer, Jonathan D.; Hedden, Steve - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 127 (2020), pp. 1-13
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Identifying Synergies and Complementarities Between MDGs: Results from Cluster Analysis
Bue, Maria Lo; Klasen, Stephan - In: Social Indicators Research 113 (2013) 2, pp. 647-670
The MDGs are interlinked: acceleration in one goal is likely to speed up progress in others. Nevertheless, these …”, characterized by strong positive synergies in MDGs indicators; (2) “poor performers”, where there are synergies in poor progress … towards the MDGs and (3) “partial performers” countries where progress in one MDG went along with regress or stagnation in …
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African Development: Beyond Income Convergence
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012
In examining some big questions on African development, we provide evidence that dynamics of some development indicators could support both endogenous and neoclassical growth theories in the convergence debate. This paper investigates convergence in real per capita GDP and inequality adjusted...
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Globalization and Africa: implications for human development
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to assess the effects of trade and financial globalization on human development in 52 African countries using updated data (1996-2010) and a new indicator of human development (adjusted for inequality). Design/methodology/approach - The estimation technique...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390811
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The Impact of Software Piracy on Inclusive Human Development: Evidence from Africa
Asongu, Simplice A.; Andrés, Antonio Rodríguez - 2014
This paper examines two dimensions of the software piracy-development nexus to complement existing formal literature. It empirically assesses the incidence of piracy on the Human Development Index (HDI) and its constituents and then the instrumentality of Intellectual Property Right (IPR)...
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A Reversal in the Relationship of Human Development with Fertility?
Harttgen, Kenneth; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2012
For more than a hundred years, advances in development were associated with decreasing fertility rates. This led to total fertility rates far below replacement level in most developed countries. However, during the last decade fertility rates started to increase again in various developed...
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The Impact of Software Piracy on Inclusive Human Development: Evidence from Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Andrés, Antonio R. - 2015
The study examines the effect of software piracy on inclusive human development in 11 African countries for which software piracy data is available for the period 2000-2010. The empirical evidence is based on instrumental variable panel Fixed Effects (FE) and Tobit models in order to control for...
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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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Does social capital mitigate precariousness?
Sabatini, Fabio - 2008
There is a surprising gap in the economic literature on social capital. First, we lack studies addressing the effects of social capital on those facets of development that can contribute in making growth more sustainable in the long run, like, for example, human development and social cohesion....
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