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The unfairness of (poverty) targets
Allwine, Melanie; Rigolini, Jamele; López-Calva, Luis … - 2013
to the reversal of ranks from worse to best performers. The application of this framework goes beyond poverty targets and … the Millennium Development Goals. Given the widespread use of targets to determine resource allocation, in education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291321
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The unfairness of (poverty) targets
Allwine, Melanie; Rigolini, Jamele; López-Calva, Luis F. - 2013
to the reversal of ranks from worse to best performers. The application of this framework goes beyond poverty targets and … the Millennium Development Goals. Given the widespread use of targets to determine resource allocation, in education … array of policies. -- poverty reduction ; targets ; initial conditions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009700206
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The Unfairness of (Poverty) Targets
Allwine, Melanie - 2013
the reversal of ranks from worse to best performers. The application of this framework goes beyond poverty targets and the … Millennium Development Goals. Given the widespread use of targets to determine resource allocation, in education, health, or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087393
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Inequality and support for government responses to COVID-19
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Malesky, Edmund; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2020
Despite a rich literature studying the impact of inequality on policy outcomes, there has been limited effort to bring these insights into the debates about comparative support for government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. We fill in this gap by analyzing rich survey data from six countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012303668
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Inequality and support for government responses to COVID-19
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Malesky, Edmund; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2020
Despite a rich literature studying the impact of inequality on policy outcomes, there has been limited effort to bring these insights into the debates about comparative support for government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. We fill in this gap by analyzing rich survey data from six countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012305923
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HDR 2003 - Millennium Development Goals: A Compact Among Nations to End Human Poverty
UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …
and environmental sustainability. World leaders promised to work together to meet concrete targets for advancing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008467207
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HDR 1997 - Human Development to Eradicate Poverty
UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …
Eradicating poverty everywhere is more than a moral imperative - it is a practical possibility. That is the most important message of the Human Development Report 1997. The world has the resources and the know-how to create a poverty-free world in less than a generation. The Report focuses not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008467213
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HDR 2006 - Beyond scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis
UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …
Throughout history water has confronted humanity with some of its greatest challenges. Water is a source of life and a natural resource that sustains our environments and supports livelihoods – but it is also a source of risk and vulnerability. In the early 21st Century, prospects for human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008467215
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HDR 2001 - Making New Technologies Work for Human Development
UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …
The 2001 Report, like all previous Human Development Reports, is about people. It is about how people can create and use technology to improve their lives. It is also about forging new public policies to lead the revolutions in information and communications technology and biotechnology in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008467217
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HDR 1996 - Economic Growth and Human Development
UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …
The 1996 Report opens with a fundamental statement: "Human development is the end - economic growth a means." The Report argues that economic growth, if not properly managed, can be jobless, voiceless, ruthless, rootless and futureless, and thus detrimental to human development. The quality of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008467221