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This article examines the role of bilateral FDI and income convergence in affecting HDI increase in countries with … middle HDI in ASEAN. The ASEAN Economic Community has been developing and it is expected that the gaps between nations can be … covered. This article explores how economic intervention through HDI and income convergence can boost HDI improvement. The …
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How has wellbeing evolved over time and across regions? How does the West compare to the Rest? What explains their differences? These questions are addressed using an historical index of human development. A sustained improvement in wellbeing has taken place since 1870. The absolute gap between...
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planetary boundary. There are 17 countries that lost at least one position in their HDI ranking after adjusting for …This paper proposes a sustainability-adjusted HDI in which country’s achievements in human development are penalized … sustainability. Between these countries, however, the countries that experience the largest drop in ranking were 37 positions for the …
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the UNDP’s HDI. A sustained improvement in African human development is found that falls, nonetheless, short of those …
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the UNDP’s HDI. A sustained improvement in African human development is found that falls, nonetheless, short of those …
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the UNDP’s HDI. A sustained improvement in African human development is found that falls, nonetheless, short of those …
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The human development index (HDI) is a measure of development published annually by the UNDP. This index allows … living of the population. The UNDP also computes a human development that excludes this last indicator, the HDI*. The global … average of the HDI is approximately 0.75, but like the HDI*, it presents some striking inter-country disparities. In this …
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one position in their HDI ranking after adjusting for sustainability. Between these countries, however, the countries that … framework in the past for advancing the measurement of human progress, particularly the human development index (HDI), which is … experienced the largest drop in ranking were 102 positions for the United States, 39 positions for China, and 22 positions for the …
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Against a backdrop of economic innovation type is increasing convergence of information communication technologies and the rapid dissemination of new knowledge, which in turn support the expansion of technological and organizational innovation. Knowledge was one of the factors of production that...
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The concept of sustainable development is founded on the idea that any development process must be focused on human purpose and must allow the expanding of the range of choices that any individual can make in order to satisfy ones many necessities. There fore, starting from the main factors...
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