In order to better understand the potential impact of the current global economic crisis on human development, we explore how human development indicators have been affected in past economic shocks. The literature on the human development impacts of short-term economic fluctuations suggest some...

Is a dramatic slowdown in global economic growth going to erase much for the progress in the last decade in terms of human development in the developing world? How might the crisis affect progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals? To address these questions, this paper...

Multiple criteria linear programming and multiple criteria quadratic programming classification models have been applied in some field in financial risk analysis and credit risk control such as credit cardholders' behavior analysis. In this paper, a fuzzy linear programming classification method...