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The Challenges of Incorporating Empowerment into the HDI: Some Lessons from Happiness Economics and Quality of Life Research
Graham, Carol - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010
macroeconomic conditions. Sen’s capabilities approach to poverty, which underlies the HDI, highlights the lack of capacity of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008587041
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The Moving Middle: Migration, Place Premiums and Human Development in Bolivia
Gray Molina, George; Yañez, Ernesto - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2009
Over half of Bolivian heads of household are lifetime migrants. This paper looks at the long term impact of internal migration over human development in Bolivia. Three issues frame these effects. First, twenty five years of rural to urban migration have transformed the demographic profile of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008507001
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From centrally planned development to human development
Ivanov, Andrey; Peleah, Mihail - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010
This paper examines the links between human development concept and the attempt to implement the communist project in the countries of the former socialist bloc. It argues that the human development performance of the socialist system, despite its beneficial outcome for the ‘working masses’,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008674294
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A Review of Conceptual and Measurement Innovations in National and Regional Human Development Reports, 1998-2009
Gaye, Amie; Jha, Shreyasi - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010
This paper presents the results from an analysis of sub-national, national and regional human development reports nominated for the Human Development Awards between 1998 and 2009 to highlight conceptual and measurement innovations in human development. Through a careful selection process, nearly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008587037
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Acute Multidimensional Poverty: A New Index for Developing Countries
Alkire, Sabina; Santos, Maria Emma - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010
This paper presents a new Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) for 104 developing countries. It is the first time … multidimensional poverty is estimated using micro datasets (household surveys) for such a large number of countries which cover about … 78 percent of the world´s population. The MPI has the mathematical structure of one of the Alkire and Foster poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008587043
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Human Development Trends since 1970: A Social Convergence Story
Gray Molina, George Gray Molina and Mark Purser - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010
This paper uses a unique data set of the Human Development Index to describe long-run human development trends for 111 countries, from 1970 to 2005. The first part of the paper shows trends by region, period and index subcomponent. We find that 110 of the 111 countries show progress in their HDI...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008504428
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Is There a Numbers vs. Rights Trade-off in Immigration Policy? What the Data Say
Cummins, Matthew; Rodriguez, Francisco - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2009
This paper explores the empirical support behind the idea that there is a trade-off between the size of the migrant population and the rights and entitlements enjoyed by immigrants. We first look at the empirical correlation between measures of migrants’ rights and the size of the stock of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506983
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Economic policies for a new South Africa
Lachman, Desmond (ed.); Ballali, Daudi (contributor) - International Monetary Fund - 1992
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000058326
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Rural-urban dynamics and the millennium development goals
2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011393904
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Global Monitoring Report 2014/2015 : Ending Poverty and Sharing Prosperity
World Bank - 2014
The Global Monitoring Report 2014/2015: Ending Poverty and Sharing Prosperity was written jointly by the World Bank … Development. This year's report details, for the first time, progress toward the WBG's twin goals of ending extreme poverty by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394064