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Der Humanentwicklungsindex : ein adäquates Meßkonstrukt für Humanentwicklung?
Nübler, Irmgard - 1995
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Der Human Development Index des UNDP : eine kritische Analyse
Bohnet, Frank - 1994
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The 2030 sustainable development goals and measuring gender inequality : a technical articulation for Asia-Pacific
Aggarwal, Bhavya; Chakraborty, Lekha S. - 2016
Against the backdrop of the 2030 UN Agenda for Sustainable Development, this paper analyzes the measurement issues in gender-based indices constructed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and suggests alternatives for choice of variables, functional form, and weights. While the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011438460
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Newer need not be better : evaluating the Penn World Tables and the World Development Indicators using nighttime lights
Pinkovskiy, Maxim; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2016
Penn World Tables (PWT) and of the World Development Indicators (WDI) better estimate true income per capita. We find that … constant-price series in both PWT 8.0 and PWT 8.1, the two most recent vintages of the PWT. We additionally find that the World … Development Indicators are as good, and often better, measures of unobserved true income as any recent vintages of the Penn World …
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Newer need not be better : evaluating the Penn World Tables and the World Development Indicators using nighttime lights
Pinkovskiy, Maxim; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011484175
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Sustainable nations : what do aggregate indicators tell us?
Pillarisetti, Janaki Ram; Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den - 2007
compares three aggregate indicators of sustainability: the World Bank’s ‘Genuine Savings’ measure, the ‘Ecological Footprint …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374434
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New financial development indicators : with a critical contribution to inequality empirics
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2013
The employment of financial development indicators without due consideration to country/regional specific financial development realities remains an issue of substantial policy relevance. Financial depth in the perspective of money supply is not equal to liquid liabilities in every development...
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Investing in human capital : what can we learn from the World Bank's portfolio data?
Gatti, Roberta; Mohpal, Aakash - 2019
This paper compiles project-level data from the World Bank's lending history to describe patterns and the composition … support. The results are robust to controlling for non-World Bank aid, as well as various alternative specifications and …
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Multiple dimensions of Human Development Index and public social spending for sustainable development
Paliova, Iana; McNown, Robert F.; Nülle, Grant - 2019
Multidimensional assessment of human development is increasingly recognized as playing an important role in assessing well-being. The focus of analysis is on the indicators measuring the three dimensions of Human Development Index (HDI) - standard of living, education and health, and their...
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Assessing SDGs : a new methodology to measure sustainability
Campagnolo, Lorenza; Carraro, Carlo; Eboli, Fabio; … - 2015
the world. The second phase, prospective, aims at evaluating the future trends of sustainability in the world by 2030. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391794