This paper measures, for the first time, the level of human development across 707 districts of India as they existed at the time of National Family Health Survey 2019-2022 using an alternative index of human development. The alternative index uses proportions rather than averages to measure...

Accurately assessing and measuring population vulnerability across geographic scales is critical for risk management. Currently, the most widely used metric for vulnerability analysis in the United States is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Social Vulnerability Index (SVI)....

This paper aims to revisit the pace and patterns of structural change in Morocco with a renewed perspective focusing on subnational trends to document the macro patterns. In that perspective, we first build a within-country sectoral longitudinal dataset covering employment and value added (VA)...

While the effect of oil price fluctuations on the macro economy is well studied, their effect on human index remains under researched. Thus, this paper examines the effect of oil price changes on human development in Ghana using annual data covering the period from 1971 to 2019. In order to...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of biocapacity and institutional quality on inclusive human development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using system-GMM on a sample of 39 countries, it is found that institutional quality increases inclusive human development and all its components....

As climate change and its impact on the physical environment become increasingly evident, its relationship with human development outcomes is becoming a key area of research. While numerous researchers have studied the ways in which the immediate environment affects human capital, literature on...