This paper analyses the relationship between financial inclusion and the economic and social development in Mexico. For this quantitative research, a study sample composed by 448 observations during the 2007-2020 was analyzed using fixed effect estimations with instrumental variables 2SLS....

Innovation is a cornerstone of economic growth, global competitiveness, and sustainable development. This study analyzes the determinants of global innovation performance (GIP) across lower-middle, upper-middle, and high-income countries using a dynamic panel-data approach with the two-step...

This paper examines the role and impact of Official Development Assistance (ODA) on human development outcomes, focusing on health, education and extreme poverty eradication. The aim is to consolidate existing knowledge on how ODA advances internationally agreed targets and to evaluate current...

This paper examines the role and impact of Official Development Assistance (ODA) on human development outcomes, focusing on health, education and extreme poverty eradication. The aim is to consolidate existing knowledge on how ODA advances internationally agreed targets and to evaluate current...

The empirical findings of this study suggest a significant long-term relationship between the probability of mortality due to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) among individuals aged 30-70 in Azerbaijan and key economic and social indicators, including Gross Domestic Product per Capita, Waged...

The Chinese economy is attempting to undergo a critical transition, shifting from a growth model driven by the intensive exploitation of traditional production factors to one centered on high-quality economic development. This new stage prioritizes regional coordination, environmental...

This study aims to improve the understanding of quality of life (QoL) by evaluating key indicators, identifying influential factors, and assessing their relative weights. This study utilizes panel data from 181 cases across 32 European countries (2012-2017). The study employs exploratory and...

This research aims to examine the role and emerging trends of critical thinking within tertiary education through a bibliometric analysis, with particular emphasis on disparities among countries with differing Human Development Index (HDI) levels. The analysis seeks to identify thematic...

This brochure is a 'light' version of Eurostat's publication 'Sustainable development in the European Union - 2025 monitoring report on progress towards the SDGs in an EU context', conveying its main messages in a visual and concise way. The assessment of EU progress towards the sustainable...

The EU is fully committed to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by the United Nations in September 2015. Eurostat monitors the EU's progress towards the SDGs along a set of 102 indicators. The EU indicator set has been carefully...

This brochure is a 'light' version of Eurostat's publication 'Sustainable development in the European Union - 2025 monitoring report on progress towards the SDGs in an EU context', conveying its main messages in a visual and concise way. The assessment of EU progress towards the sustainable...

The EU is fully committed to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by the United Nations in September 2015. Eurostat monitors the EU's progress towards the SDGs along a set of 102 indicators. The EU indicator set has been carefully...

In this paper, cointegration and causality relationship among human development (HDI), financial development (FDI) and sustainable development (ESG) for five CEECs are investigated. In the study covering the period 1990-2022, Hatemi-J (2008) test was used to investigate cointegration...

This paper proposes a new sustainable development index incorporating informality measures for 36 European countries from 2010 to 2022. This index is estimated via a combination of national accounting, macroestimates of informality, and survey data through partial least squares (PLS) regression,...

Sustainable Development Indicators (SDIs) are crucial for economic growth (EG) by offering a broader perspective on development, moving beyond a sole focus on gross domestic product (GDP). SDIs encompass indicators related to social equity, EG, and environmental preservation, providing a more...

Research background: Balanced state development is impossible without sustainable human development. In turn, corruption has a significant impact on the level of human development, since a high level of corruption leads to an unfair distribution of income and resources and exacerbates inequality...

The issue of introducing a vulnerability indicator in an aid allocation formula such as the Performance Based Allocation (PBA) used by several Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) has been discussed for a long time. Three reasons make it particularly desirable to now reconsider the issue.

The paper investigates the economic, social, and environmental determinants of Vietnam’s Human Development Index (HDI) for the years 1990-2023. Using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing method, short-run and long-run relationships between HDI and GDP per capita growth,...

Standards make everyday life run smoothly. You rarely notice them: the credit card that works in any corner of the world, the Wi-Fi signal that connects a remote village to the cloud, or the vaccine vial that fits syringes from Dakar to Delhi. When standards work, they build trust. They free...

This study explores the relevance of education in reducing poverty in Egypt's rural and urban areas.The study applies the logistic model to Analyse Household Income Expenditure survey data.The results indicate that spending on education in urban regions is higher than in rural areas. Second, the...

Global development debate, which challenges the traditional North-South divide and focuses on the within-country or micro-level development perspective, argues that there is gender inequality in development within countries or at the micro level. It has brought a new dimension to the argument on...

This study develops a multidimensional classification of Latin American and Caribbean countries based on a multidimensional set of economic, social, technological, and environmental indicators. This study develops a multidimensional assessment of the performance of Latin American and Caribbean...

This study integrates the Logistics Performance Index (LPI), Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI), and Human Development Index (HDI) through Multiple Factor Analysis (MFA) and hierarchical clustering to create a comprehensive perspective on global development. By clustering countries based on...

Living Standards in Southeast Asia: Changes over the Long Twentieth Century, 1900-2015 examines changes in living standards across the ten countries of Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Thailand, Brunei, Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos) from the early years of the...

The restructuring of a state is crucial for promoting human development. For this reason, public-private partnerships (PPPs), the so-called "fourth revolution" in reinventing the state, have become a global strategy of choice. Yet, existing studies on PPPs mainly analyze their effect on growth...

This Policy Brief introduces the Gini Trade Index (GTI) as a new trade synthetic key performance indicator capable of capturing the different distribution of trade values across firm characteristics and across countries. The new indicator replicates the well-known features of the traditional...

This study explores the relationship between oil prices and the Human Development Index (HDI) in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. It investigates whether oil prices remain the primary driver of economic growth and development in the region. The analysis employs a Cross-Sectional...

The paper aims to analyze human development through its interactions with environ- mental protection, governance, and official development assistance (ODA) in develop- ing countries. This is done to allow the decision-makers of the latter to have an optimal approach to sustainable development...

This brochure is a 'light' version of Eurostat's publication 'Sustainable development in the European Union - 2024 monitoring report on progress towards the SDGs in an EU context', conveying its main messages in a visual and concise way. The brochure builds on the EU SDG indicator set which...

The EU is fully committed to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by the United Nations in September 2015. Eurostat monitors the EU's progress towards the SDGs along a set of 102 indicators. The EU indicator set has been carefully...

This brochure is a 'light' version of Eurostat's publication 'Sustainable development in the European Union - 2024 monitoring report on progress towards the SDGs in an EU context', conveying its main messages in a visual and concise way. The brochure builds on the EU SDG indicator set which...