Human capital, a broad concept including education and health, is considered as an essential driver of development patterns and human well-being. Undernourishment, poor health and low education attainment remain considerable obstacles to economic and social progress in Developing Countries (DCs)...

This document presents detailed calculation principles for annual retrospective series of the Economic Vulnerability Index according to the UN-CDP definitions of the 2015 Review. It is organized as successive technical sheets explaining calculation of the retrospective EVI components and...

Nous avons créé un nouvel indice, l'Indice de Violence Interne (IVI), dont le but est de comparer le niveau de violence dans 130 pays en développement. L'IVI est un indice composite mesurant la violence interne sous différentes formes: conflits armés internes, criminalité, terrorisme et...

Nous proposons un indicateur d'intensité de l'activité cyclonique calculé au niveau pays par année. Cet indicateur, simple, utilise des données historiques géolocalisées sur les cyclones, leur puissance, leur position, dont nous déduisons la part du territoire touchée, et leur durée....

The recognition of climate change as a dominant issue for the global economy and policy has led to a search for resources for financing mitigation and adaptation. While raising funds for mitigation and for adaptation meet similar problems, their allocation between countries cannot be ruled by...

Human capital, a broad concept including education and health, plays a central role in economic development and human well-being. As a consequence, low human capital became one of the three criteria used by the United Nations Committee for Development Policy (UN-CDP) for identifying Least...

Alors qu'en Afrique la plupart des États ont leur propre monnaie, quatorze se partagent entre deux Unions monétaires, l'Union monétaire ouest-africaine d'une part et l'Union monétaire de l'Afrique centrale d'autre part. La Common Monetary Area, qui réunit l'Afrique du Sud, le Lesotho, la...