This study explores the relationship between oil prices and the Human Development Index (HDI) in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. It investigates whether oil prices remain the primary driver of economic growth and development in the region. The analysis employs a Cross-Sectional...

Given the rapid development of China's new urbanization, cities with different locations and varying functional positioning, resource endowments, and development stages have insufficient scientific and applicable technical tools for implementing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals...

We apply the Gross City Development Index (GCD-Index) by Ruiz Estrada and Park (2019) in the case of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The GCD-Index calculation is based on the concept of city integral sustainable development platform. The platform consists of ten main structures, which are (i) Main...

We may be entering a new geologic age called the Anthropocene in which humans are a dominant force shaping the planet’s future. That future is already taking frightening shape in many ways, from climate change to plunging biodiversity to the epidemic of plastics in our oceans.The strain on the...

This paper investigates the effect of economic freedom on inclusive human development in a panel of 41 Sub-Saharan Africa countries over the period 2010-2019. Ordinary Least Squares, Tobit and Quantile regression is used for the estimates. We find that economic freedom increases inclusive human...

The need for country vulnerability profiles is linked to the difficulty of capturing in a single index, no matter how complex, the various kinds of vulnerability which developing countries may face. The Multidimensional Vulnerability Index (MVI) being developed by the United Nations has not...