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Human Development Report 2013

Published by UNDP, March 15, 2013 The rise of the South is radically reshaping the world of the 21st century, with developing nations driving economic growth, lifting hundreds of millions of people from poverty, and propelling billions more into a new global middle class, says the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) 2013 Human Development Report. [...]

Does Political Competition Influence Human Development? Evidence from the Indian States

Bharatee Bhushan Dash and Sacchidananda Mukherjee Working Paper No. 2013-118 February 2013 Recently, it has been argued that political competition may have similar effects on economic performance as market competition. This study empirically examines this proposition by linking political competition with the Human Development Index (HDI) of the Indian states. The findings suggest that politically [...]

Negative Influence of Fiscal Subsidies on Environment:Empirical Evidence from Cross-Country Estimation

by Sacchidananda Mukherjee and Debashis Chakraborty NIPFP WP no. 2013-117, January 2013 It has been observed that a number of developed as well as developing countries provide subsidies to their resource-intensive sectors like agriculture, fisheries, manufacturing etc. However, overproduction and consequent pollution as well as overexploitation of natural resources resulting from the provision of input [...]

REGIONAL DISPARITIES IN GROWTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA

by Satyaki Roy ISID Working Paper no. 2012/-5, September 2012 This paper argues that that per capita income in all states in India increased in the past four decades but in fact no sign of convergence could be visible as it was expected in the context of liberalizing markets. The paper shows that disparities in [...]

Human Development in Northeastern Region of India: Issues and Challenges

by Purusottam Nayak MPRA Paper no.41582, August, 2012 The paper is a brief account of findings of various human development reports and studies undertaken by individual researchers on the states of northeast India. The findings reveal that achievement of northeastern region is quite satisfactory in comparison to all India average achievements in some dimensions of [...]

The Asia-Pacific Human Development Report 2012

Published by UNDP, 2012 Asia-Pacific not only has many of the world’s most climate-exposed territories, it is also home to millions of the most vulnerable people. The unprecedented pace and scale of human activities have been transforming the natural environment and contributing to climate change. Emissions cross borders, and so do some of the most [...]

Regional Patterns of Human and Child Deprivationin India

by Jean Dreze and Reetika Khera Economic and political Weekly, September 29. 2012 This paper takes a look at regional patterns of human and child deprivation in India, based on district-level data. It presents and compares two simple summary indices of living conditions at the district level: a standard “human development index” and a variant [...]

A Paradox within a Paradox: Emerging Signs of Change in the Unappealing Tribal Scenario in Kerala, India

by Deepa Chandran Developing Country Studies www.iiste.org ISSN 2225-0565 (Online) Vol 2, No.6, 2012 Kerala, a small state in India caught worldwide attention owing to its unparalleled successful but ironical experience of achieving high human development unaccompanied by a matching level of economic development. The “Kerala model of development” was widely appreciated as a development [...]

Journal of Human Development and Capabilities,Volume 13, Issue 2, 2012

CONTENTS SUCCESS AND FAILURE IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT,1970 – 2007 by Gustav Rants and Frances Stewart THE GLOBAL CRISIS AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: A STUDY ON CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE AND THE CIS REGION by Balazs Horvatb,Andrey Ivanow and Mihail Peleab BUILDING A MULTIDIMENSIONAL WELL BEING INDEX FOR RURAL POPULATION IN NORTHEASTERN NAMIBIA by Jean – Gael [...]

Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2012

Introduction Ø      On Macroeconomics and Human Development: An Unexplored Domain Deepak Nayyar Original Articles Ø      Macroeconomics and Human Development Deepak Nayyar Ø      Macroeconomic Fluctuations, Inequality, and Human Development Joseph E. Stiglitz Ø      Macroeconomics, Human Development, and Distribution Stephanie Seguino Ø      The Impact of Global Economic Crises on the Poor: Comparing the 1980s and 2000s Frances [...]

India’s Human Development in the 2000s Towards Social Inclusion

by Santhosh Mehrotra and Ankita Gandhi EPW April 7, 2012 The indian Human Development Report 2011 undertakes a disaggregated analysis of a large set of indicators and is unhesitating in its criticism of our failures in human development outcomes even while recognising that there is empirical evidence of achievement in many dimensions. The main fi [...]

VISION, VOLUME 31, NUMBER 4

CONTENTS ¨      Impact of Heavy Industries on Odisha: A Dispassionate Critique Basudeb Sahoo ¨      Human Development Across States in India: Costs of Inequality: M. H. Suryanarayana & Ankush Agrawal ¨      Some Migrate to Metros, Some Gravitate to Clusters: Odisha Households in Search of Livelihoods Shovan Roy ¨      Climate Change, Drought Risk and Forest Resource Dependent [...]

Journal of Human Development and Capabilities Volume 12, Issue 4, 2011

·        Global Governance and Human Development: Promoting Democratic Accountability and Institutional Experimentation Arjun Jayadev ·        Capably Queer: Exploring the Intersections of Queerness and Poverty in the Urban Philippines Ryan Thoreson ·        Defining the Boundaries between Unpaid Labor and Unpaid Caregiving: Review of the Social and Health Sciences Literature Greta Friedemann-Sánchez & Joan M. Griffin ·        [...]

Technology and Human Development

Gustav Ranis CENTER DISCUSSION PAPER NO. 1004 September 2011 Human development, in combination with technology, yields economic growth which, in  turn, is necessary to generate further advances in human development.  This paper  focuses on the first channel above and finds the relationship significant.  Secondly, the  paper tries to investigate what affects technology change, as represented [...]

Human Development Report 2011 Sustainability and Equity: A Better Future for All

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) URL: http://www.undp.org.in/sites/default/files/reports_publication/GHDR_2011_EN_Complete.pdf Courtesy: UNDP

Law, economic growth and human development

Asongu Simplice A. Date: 03. October 2011 This paper cuts adrift the mainstream approach to the legal-origins debate on the law-growth nexus by integrating both overall economic and human components in our understanding of how regulation quality and the rule of law lie at the heart of economic and inequality adjusted human developments. Findings summarily [...]

CLIMATE CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT FRAMINGS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2007/8 AND THE WORLD DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2010

by Des Gasper, Ana Victoria Portocarrero, Asuncion Lera St.Clair ISS working paer No.528, November 2011 The Human Development Report 2007/8 (HDR) and the World Development Report 2010 (WDR) are both devoted to the connections between climate change and development. The reports provide very different perspectives on where the key challenges reside. Their policy proposals are [...]

Financial determinants of human development in developing countries

Asongu Simplice A. Date: Oct-2011 Hitherto financial drivers of human development have been unexplored by the UNDP. This paper assesses determinants of human development from financial dynamics of depth, efficiency, size and activity on data from 38 developing countries. While the importance of financial activity, size and depth (in decreasing order) is significant for inequality adjusted [...]

Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index for India’s States

By M.H.Suryanarayana,Ankush Agrawal and K.seetha prabhu, 2011 The 2010 UNDP Global Human Development Report The Real Wealth of Nations: Pathways to Human Development introduced a new index, the Inequality-adjusted HDI aimed at capturing the distributional dimensions of human development. Three dimensions of HDI i.e. income, education and health are adjusted for inequalities in attainments across [...]

Designing the Inequality-Adjusted Human Development Index (HDI)

By Sabina Alkire and James Foster OPHI Working Paper No.37 This paper proposes a method for adjusting the HDI to reflect the distribution of human development achievements across the population, and across dimensions, using an inequality measure from the Atkinson family. We begin with a discussion of the proposed indices in an idealized setting where [...]

Acute Multidimensional Poverty:A New Index for Developing Countries

By Sabina Alkire and Maria Emma Santos ophi working paper N0.38 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 [...]

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