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Engendering Human Development: A Critique of the UNDP’s Gender-Related Development Index

Stanton, Elizabeth - Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), University … - 2007

This article reviews the literature critiquing the United Nations Development Programme’s Gender-related Development Index (GDI), which is a measure of human development penalized for the extent of gender inequality in each country; presents several original critiques of GDI; and presents...

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A Review of Conceptual and Measurement Innovations in National and Regional Human Development Reports, 1998-2009

Gaye, Amie; Jha, Shreyasi - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010

This paper presents the results from an analysis of sub-national, national and regional human development reports nominated for the Human Development Awards between 1998 and 2009 to highlight conceptual and measurement innovations in human development. Through a careful selection process, nearly...

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Acute Multidimensional Poverty: A New Index for Developing Countries

Alkire, Sabina; Santos, Maria Emma - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010

This paper presents a new Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) for 104 developing countries. It is the first time … multidimensional poverty is estimated using micro datasets (household surveys) for such a large number of countries which cover about … 78 percent of the world´s population. The MPI has the mathematical structure of one of the Alkire and Foster poverty …

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Economic Crises, Health and Education in Jamaica

Kim, Namsuk; Serra-Garcia, Marta - In: Estudios Económicos 25 (2010) 1, pp. 105-134

We study the impact of growth fluctuation on education and health indicators in Jamaica. Using household surveys … with education and health indicators. The main finding of the instrumental variable regression is that GDP fluctuation has …

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The Influence of Vulnerability on Migration Intentions in Afghanistan

Loschman C.; Siegel M. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013

profile of household vulnerability through individual indicators of deprivation along four principle dimensions, and then …

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Inequality and human development: The role of different parts of the income distribution

Castells-Quintana, David; Gradín, Carlos; Royuela, Vicente - 2022

In this paper we reassess the relationship between inequality and human development, focusing on the differential effect associated with the concentration of national income at different parts of the income distribution. To do so, we rely on a large global panel of countries over the last...

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Technology and human development

Ranis, Gustav - 2011

Human development, in combination with technology, yields economic growth which, in turn, is necessary to generate further advances in human development. This paper focuses on the first channel above and finds the relationship significant. Secondly, the paper tries to investigate what affects...

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Comparative Human Development and Gender Equality Performance Analysis of Middle Eastern and North African Countries with Turkey

MIHCI, Hakan; TANER, Mehmet Tolga - In: International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues 4 (2014) 4, pp. 859-869

the gender-based indicators. In this context, the country is not only below the averages of the European, Central Asian …

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Comparative Human Development and Gender Equality Performance Analysis of Middle Eastern and North African Countries with Turkey

MIHCI, Hakan; TANER, Mehmet Tolga - In: International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues 4 (2014) 4, pp. 859-869

the gender-based indicators. In this context, the country is not only below the averages of the European, Central Asian …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279197

Environment, Human Development and Economic Growth after Liberalisation: An Analysis of Indian States

Mukherjee, Sacchidananda; Chakraborty, Debashis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

-periods, 63 environmental indicators have been clustered under eight broad environmental groups and an overall index of EQ using …

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