Search Results - subject:"Human Development Index"

The ISEW - Not an Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare

Neumayer, Eric - 2010

The Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW) is supposed to provide a more reliable indictor for both sustainability and welfare than gross national product (GNP). In this article, I argue first that the ISEWs lack a sound theoretical foundation. I show second that their conclusions are...

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Is There Any Relationship between Environment, Human Development, Political and Governance Regimes? Evidences from a Cross-Country Analysis

Mukherjee, Sacchidananda; Chakraborty, Debashis - 2010

represented by Human Development Index (2007) and Human Poverty Index (2006). Democracy Index (2008) and Corruption Perceptions …

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A Revised Human Development Index (RHDI) for Sudan : An Empirical Study

Hassan, Hisham Mohamed; Ibrahim, Omer Ali - 2010

Development Index (RHDI). The main argument of the paper is that the conventional Human Development Index (HDI) underestimates …This paper aims to measure human development in the Sudan during the period 1975- 2003, using a Revised Human …

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Classification, Detection and Consequences of Data Error : Evidence from the Human Development Index

Wolff, Hendrik - 2010

We measure and examine data error in health, education and income statistics used to construct the Human Development … Index. We identify three sources of data error which are due to (i) data updating, (ii) formula revisions and (iii …

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Measuring Human Poverty in India : An Inter State Analysis

Dhillon, Sharanjit Singh - 2010

Poverty has many dimensions and as such difficult to define in a simple way. Poverty may be defined as the inability of a person to get the minimum needs fulfilled with respect to consumption for leading a simple and healthy life. These minimum needs include food, clothing, housing, education...

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Is There any Relationship Between Economic Growth and Human Development? Evidence from Indian States

Mukherjee, Sacchidananda - 2010

during four time periods ranging over last two decades: 1983, 1993, 1999-00 and 2004-05. To construct Human Development Index … Development Index is constructed for rural and urban areas separately for each of the States. The result shows that that per … development across Indian States. To understand the rural – urban disparity in the achievement of human development, the Human …

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