In the present paper an empirical analysis will point out that a Federal System, Political Stability as well as Research and Development expenditure (% of GDP) improve Human Development Index. Our sample covers many advanced economies during the period 2005-2011. The elaboration of these panel...

In results-based approaches, funding is linked to pre-agreed results that are defined in the form of indicators. Disbursements only take place once progress in the indicators has been verified. This places high requirements on the quality of indicators used. Different development actors have...

We use geographical variation in the intensity of the genocide, which disproportionately killed prime-age males during the Khmer Rouge (KR) regime in Cambodia, to study the effect of violent conflict on the educational and health outcomes of children born years after the conflict ended. We show...

Addressing human development in India is of vital importance since a large portion of the population is living below the poverty line, and income inequalities are rising by the day. It is estimated that nearly one third of Indians live on less than 20 Rupees per day. Disparities exist across...

This paper purposed to assess the public spending efficiency in education in each province over Indonesia. The government increase the education spending to improve the quality of education and hopefully impact on human capital skills. This action aligns to national law no 23/2003, as the...

According to the World Bank and the United Nations, human capital is the largest component of human wealth for most countries in the world. There is no question that human capital is critical to individual and society well-being and both present and future growth. This presentation draws upon an...

Financial Inclusion is the process of enabling access to timely and adequate credit especially to the vulnerable sections of the society so as to bring them within the ambit of formal financial services. This paper attempts to understand financial inclusion within the broad spectrum of human...

In this paper it is estimated how economic freedom affects among others human development index. Data are taken from World Economic Freedom Indicators and United Nations. Our sample covers for the period 2000-2012 EU, Japan and USA. The elaboration of these data is made feasible through the...