Assignment 3 Assignment 4 Assignment 5 2010 World Population Data Human Development Index Poverty Index Gender Related Development Index Gender Empowerment Index _______________________________________________________ INTRODUCTION This course pack includes five assignments on the following topics: • • • • • 2010 World Population Data Human Development Index Poverty Index Gender Related Development Index Gender Empowerment Index Please remember: • • • • • These assignments are to be completed
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Macroeconomics Issues related to Human Development Index Contents Introduction 3 New methodology to calculate HDI for 2011 data onwards 4 Importance 5 Objective of study 5 HDI – Across the Nations 6 Politics 6 Judiciary 7 Corruption 7 Natural Resources 7 Why HDI varies across nations? Case of Norway vs. Zimbabwe 8 Zimbabwe 8 Norway 9 GNI per capita & the Population factor 10 Immigrants 10 Non-contributing population 11 Happiness Index 11 Seasonal factors 12 Inequality
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greater number of population. Corruption in Health and Education deprives people of these basic facilities and affects human development. These are‚ co-relates of Human Development. Cross country data of 102 countries show that there is a high rank correlation (0.788) as well as coefficient of correlation (0.766) between Human Development Index (HDI) and Corruption Perception Index (CPI). Countries with low scores in CPI have low HDI. See Annexure ‘A’. Many avenues of corruption cannot be dealt
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American Scientists. http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/summary.htm.Retrieved 9 July 2012. “Russian Military Budget Expenditures”. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/mo-budget-expenditures.htm. Retrieved 3 July 2012. International Human Development Indicators http://hdrstats.undp.org/en/countries/profiles/RUS.html. Retrieved 9 July 2012
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The United Nations development program is a program aimed and geared towards helping developing nations towards real development. Obviously development can’t by any means take place without the presence of gender equality. In United Nations development program has developed two methods in order to measure both women’s development as well as women’s empowerment. The two conceptual indexes that measure women’s development and their empowerment are the GDI and the GEM indexes. I do not believe that
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Summary Human Development Report 2013 The Rise of the South: Empowered lives. Resilient nations. Human Progress in a Diverse World S W E N Copyright © 2013 by the United Nations Development Programme 1 UN Plaza‚ New York‚ NY 10017‚ USA All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced‚ stored in a retrieval system or transmitted‚ in any form or by any means‚ electronic‚ mechanical‚ photocopying‚ recording or otherwise‚ without prior permission. Printed in Canada by Lowe-Martin
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What is the reason behind India’s poverty despite the steep growth in our economy?Is growth and development both are same?Hope this paper could provide a lucid explanation about India and its’ so called development. GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT ANNOTATION: Before looking into various stats and graphs of India’s performance since its independence‚let us learn the basic difference between growth and development in terms of economics. Economic Growth is a narrower concept than economic development.It
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of the human resources and land resources that attract a lot of investor come to these five countries to seek investment opportunities and market equities. As a result‚ the overseas company’s monitors want to gain the best profit and the less risk‚ they can rely on some important of the financial indicators. For example‚ the Cross National Income‚ Gross National Income for per capita‚ foreign exchange rate and the amount of export and import. In addition‚ they also need consider the human development
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is very high. This is because of high birth rate and social circumstances. 4. Mass Poverty: According to United Nations Development Programme’s (IJNDP) Global Human Development index 2011. India is ranked 134th among 187 countries. The report says 53 per cent of Indians suffer from multidimensional poverty. The Planning Commission released the second India Human Development Report (HDR) 2011. The report claims
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The Track Record of Nike How have Materialist economies shaped the social development and standard of living? Alec McLeod-Toussaint -28575534479500 Guide question Describe the gap between the developed and the developing nation in terms of their respective level of development. America’s human development index is 0.937 whereas Indonesia ‘s human development index 0.629 What is your selected ‘issue’ and which countries are most affected‚ both positively and negatively by it? Nike and the
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