Search Results - subject:"Development indicators"

Gender indicators of the United Nations Development Programme

Stachura, Paulina; Śleszyński, Jerzy - In: Economic and environmental studies : a journal for … 16 (2016) 4, pp. 511-530

The Human Development Report published by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) introduced new measures to evaluate progress in reducing poverty and empowering women: Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI), Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), Gender Inequality Index (GII),...

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Not all that glitters is gold : ICT and inclusive human development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016

This paper examines the short and long term effects of information and communication technology (ICT) on inclusive human development in a panel of 49 Sub-Saharan African countries for the period 2000-2012. ICT is measured in terms of mobile phone penetration, internet penetration and telephone...

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Rural area of the region South Muntenia : evolutions and gaps of the socio-economic indicators : case study: Arges, Dambovita and Prahova counties

Bucur, Sorinel Ionel; Bucur, Elena Carmen - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 300-307). 2016

The addressing to rural areas, coupled with the identification of indicators characterizing the degree of resource endowment, derives both from the size of the rural area and also from the share of employment in productive activities of social and cultural services, habitat, etc. Although the...

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Globalization, international trade, and human development : a case of Central and Eastern Europe

Cieślik, Andrzej; Michałek, Jan Jakub; Mycielski, Jerzy - In: Czech journal of social sciences, business and … 5 (2016) 2, pp. 6-15

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A Poor Means Test? : Econometric Targeting in Africa

Brown, Caitlin; Ravallion, Martin; Van de Walle, Dominique - 2016

Proxy-means testing is a popular method of poverty targeting with imperfect information. In a now widely-used version, a regression for log consumption calibrates a proxy-means test score based on chosen covariates, which is then implemented for targeting out-of-sample. In this paper, the...

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Creative Trade for Human Development

Kabanda, Patrick - 2016

In recent years, international trade in creative goods and services has been expanding. But this upward march is not lifting all boats. Although many developing countries are endowed with vast cultural wealth, they still lag behind. In addition, women are not faring well. Much needs to be done...

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Creative Natives in the Digital Age : How Digital Technology Has Revolutionized Creative Work

Kabanda, Patrick - 2016

Digital technologies have permeated modern life, and their impact on creative work has been revolutionary. This revolution, as widely noted, has disrupted the making, distribution, and consumption of creative output. On the downside, key concerns include Internet-induced piracy and inequality....

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Newer Need Not Be Better : Evaluating the Penn World Tables and the World Development Indicators Using Nighttime Lights

Pinkovskiy, Maxim - 2016

Penn World Tables and of the World Development Indicators better estimate true income per capita. We find that revisions of …-price series in both PWT 8.0 and PWT 8.1, the two most recent vintages of the PWT. We additionally find that the World Development … Indicators are as good, and often better, measures of unobserved true income as are any recent vintages of the Penn World Tables …

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Inequality of Human Opportunities in Developing Asia

Son, Hyun H. - 2016

This paper analyzes the equity of opportunity in basic education and infrastructure services in seven developing countries, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Indonesia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Viet Nam. The analysis applies a method developed by the World Bank called the Human Opportunity...

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Using Spatial Factor Analysis to Measure Human Development

Qiu, Qihua - 2016

In this paper, we propose a Bayesian factor analysis model with the purpose of serving as an alternate approach to calculating the UNDP's Human Development Index, as well as providing a general methodology which can be used to augment existing indices or build new ones. In addition to addressing...

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