Monday, August 02, 2010

Human Developmnent

Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)

 


Human Development and Sustainability
 
Human Development Research Paper Eric Neumayer, Professor of Environment and Development and Head of Department at the Department of Geogrpahy and Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science
United Nations Development Programme UNDP - June 2010
Available online PDF [35p.] at: http://bit.ly/ayFm0D

“…..The literatures and debates on human development on the one hand and sustainability on the other share much in common. Human development is essentially what sustainability advocates want to sustain and without sustainability, human development is not true human development./.../
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Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)

 


Human Development Trends since 1970: A Social Convergence Story
George Gray Molina is an Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellow, Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, Princeton University.
Mark Purser is a research consultant at the Human Development Report Office
Human Development Reports - Research Paper - June 2010
United Nations Development Programme - UNDP

Available online PDF [53p.] at: http://bit.ly/ddrovP
 
“…….This paper uses a unique data set of the Human Development Index to describe long-run human development trends for 111 countries, from 1970 to 2005. The first part of the paper shows trends by region, period and index subcomponent. We find that 110 of the 111 countries show progress in their HDI levels over a 35-year period. HDI growth is fastest for low-HDI and middle-HDI countries in the pre-1990 period./.../

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