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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. [...]

Going beyond GDP, UNDP proposes human development measure of sustainability

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 20 June 2012—In a high-level forum at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development today the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) presented the conceptual groundwork for a  future “Sustainable Human Development Index,” which would recognize the cost of human development to future generations. The UNDP forum  was prompted by the call made [...]

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 [...]

The Five-Phases of Economic Development and Institutional Evolution in China and Japan

by Masahikoa Aoki ADBI WP No.340, December 2011 Based on the variable rate of gross domestic product per capita growth and its sources, this paper first identifies five phases of economic development that are common to China, Japan, and Korea: M (Malthusian), G (government-led), K (à la Kuznets), H (human capital based) and PD (post [...]

Improving Quality of Development: Perspectives from Operations Management

Sanjeev Swami and Janat Shah According to the United Nation’s global development network, UNDP, an organization advocating for change and to help people build a better life, the Human Development Index (HDI) is a summary composite index that measures a country’s average achievements in three basic aspects of human development: health, knowledge, and income (http://hdr.undp.org). [...]

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