Search Results - subject:"Human Development Index"

Why are women less democratic than men? : evidence from Sub‐Saharan African countries

García-Peñalosa, Cecilia; Konte, Maty - 2014

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Gender difference in support for democracy in Sub‐Saharan Africa : do social institutions matter?

Konte, Maty - 2014

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Three decades of human development across Indian States : inclusive growth or perpetual disparity?

Mukherjee, Sacchidananda; Chakraborty, Debashis; … - 2014

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Developmental disability index for hill states in India

Pandey, Rita; Dasgupta, Purnamita - 2014

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Country terms of trade 1960 ‐ 2012 : trends, unit roots, over‐differencing, endogeneity, time dummies, and heterogeneity

Ziesemer, Thomas - 2014

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Social spending and aggregate welfare in developing and transition economies

Gebregziabher, Fiseha; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2014

, education, and social protection) on two major indicators of aggregate welfare (the Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index … that government social spending has a significantly positive causal effect on the Inequality-adjusted Human Development … Index, while government expenditure on health has a significant negative impact on child mortality rate. These results are …

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Indices of social development and their application to Africa

Haan, Arjan de; Foa, Roberto - 2014

This paper, using a new set of social development indices, explores the measurement of social development across Africa, and how this relates to broader development patterns and measurement. Development practitioners worldwide increasingly recognize the importance of informal institutions, such...

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The role of indicators in development cooperation : an overview study with a special focus on the use of key and standard indicators

Holzapfel, Sarah - 2014

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A dynamical systems approach to modeling human development

Ranganathan, Shyam; Swain, Ranjula Bali; Sumpter, David … - 2014

A key aim of economics is to set goals and investigate the relationship between various socio-economic indicators. By fitting time series data using a Bayesian dynamical systems approach we identify non-linear interactions between GDP, child mortality, fertility rate and female education. We...

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Evaluating alternatives to GDP as measures of social welfare/progress

Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den; Antal, Miklós - 2014

Proposed alternatives to GDP as a measure of social welfare or human progress are briefly evaluated. Four main categories are considered, namely ISEW and GPI based on corrections of GDP, sustainable or green(ed) GDP, genuine savings/investments and composite indexes. All these alternatives turn...

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