outcomes: economic growth, health and education as two dimensions of human development, and governance, with a focus on …

failures. Policy makers should improve access to and quality of health, education, and other social services. This means better …. Governments need to support private investment and entrepreneurship by investing in human capital and infrastructure; developing … the financial sector; improving governance; and eliminating other impediments created by market, institutional, or policy …

a country still very much marked by regional asymmetries and in need of better regional governance mechanisms and … positions in the ranking between 2004 and 2009. In addition to the three traditional dimensions of the HDI—income, education …, and health—we include two more, given their increasing importance in the literature that criticizes the HDI and suggests …

shared benefits for participating countries in such areas as health, education, trade, and infrastructure. …

failures. Policy makers should improve access to and quality of health, education, and other social services. This means better …. Governments need to support private investment and entrepreneurship by investing in human capital and infrastructure; developing … the financial sector; improving governance; and eliminating other impediments created by market, institutional, or policy …

, female educational enrolment, expenditure on health, and good governance. Other significant variables apart from those … indicative of the different facets of human development. These include public expenditure on education, primary school enrolment …

shared benefits for participating countries in such areas as health, education, trade, and infrastructure. …