The paper presents an analysis of some of the impediments that exist in the development of the social sectors and in the delivery of these services in Pakistan. It suggests that in essence these impediments stem from malgovernance and can be attributed to a number of causes, the most important...

The main goal of the paper is to investigate the link between economic growth and human development in Republic of Macedonia. The concept of human development and quality of life is wider concept than economic growth, which means that economic growth not every time and in any case promotes human...

The World Bank has discovered that people are programmable, and some (poor people) are more programmable than others. So the 2015 World Development Report (Mind, Society and Behavior) has ditched the ‘rational actor' model on which neo-classical economics was built, as an impediment to the...

This paper disaggregates human development indicators across disability status to assess the situation of persons and households with disabilities. The paper uses 24 censuses and general household surveys from 21 low- and middle-income countries. Disability status is measured through...