Sudan etc. whereas it is not so widespread in many developed countries like Denmark, Finland, and Sweden etc. In India, corruption is a fairly widespread phenomenon and it is still showing an increasing trend over years, despite the rise in human development, disposable income and employment. Objective In this
Assignment: Economics of Sustainable Development Issues of Sustainable Development (C-303) Assigned by Mohammad Ehsanul Kabir Prepared By Sujoy Barua - 13112002 August 13, 2014 Dhaka School of Economics Introduction: Environment sustainability index measures the performance of a countries environmental condition due to the socio economic and environmental degradation by the natural and human made. Due to the economic progress the drawing out of natural resources and its uses
Introduction With the deepening and development of the research on poverty, the ways to measure gender and poverty are also more extensive and the areas involved are expanding. Income is not the only way of poverty dimension. Measurements of poverty, such as poverty line, poverty index and different poverty measure methods basically treat poor women and poor men as indiscriminate. Thus, a more nuanced and complex analysis of poverty and gender is emerging and a multidimensional measurement is needed
Multivariate Regression Analysis 1. Explain the reasoning behind your choice of variables We are interested in explaining why some countries are more democratic than others. Our proposed explanation is that an economically developed society allows people to have a certain level of education and economic stability, which gives them space to turn to other important freedoms in life such as democratic rights. We also think a society that has a low level of cultural diversity (CD) tends to be more
health or educational status. Why has the economist been rather less concerned about inequality across racial, ethnic or caste groups? The answer probably lies in the methodological preference of the economist for a depersonalised agent as the unit of analysis. The agent acts independently to choose the best course of action given the opportunities. This way of thinking has definitely been fruitful in illuminating a variety of problems. It cannot, however, fully capture the ways intergroup inequality persists
when it comes to gender equality? Comparative analysis of China being ahead of Japan on gender equality issues. The degree of gender equality is assessed differently by various indexes that measure gender equality worldwide. I therefore begin by discussing three indexes of global gender equality that yield different results concerning the progress of gender equality in Japan and China. UNDP’s Gender Inequality Index (GII) The Gender Inequality Index (GII) examines gender inequality in the three
INTRODUCTION The Concept of Human Development: "The basic purpose of development is to enlarge people's choices. In principle, these choices can be infinite and can change over time. People often value achievements that do not show up at all, or not immediately, in income or growth figures: greater access to knowledge, better nutrition and health services, more secure livelihoods, security against crime and physical violence, satisfying leisure hours, political and cultural freedoms and sense of
“Multi-Dimensional Poverty Index: An Application to the United States”. In this paper author applied the same model for poverty ridden Chinese provinces. We all know how 2008 financial crisis affected the tops guns. But have we ever wondered how it affected the poor? An important breakthrough in the past decades at home and abroad is on understanding of poverty as the single income of poor from steering multidimensional poverty. However, research on exactly how the Multidimensional Poverty Index with the actual
REGIONAL IMBALANCE IN BODY MASS INDEX AND HEALTH STATUS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY BY RELIGION AND CASTES IN MURSHIDABAD DISTRICT, WEST BENGAL Dr. S. Waseem Ahmad Ashraf* & Dr. Sabbir Ahmed** * Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh ** Senior Researcher, Department of Geography, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh Abstract: Body Mass Index (BMI) is a ratio of a person’s height and weight. It is a simple calculation of mass in kilograms
The RCA index was used by many researchers around the world like Leu in 1998 presented that comparative advantage had shifted from Japan to East Asian Economies using RCA index. His analysis focused mainly on exports of these countries to US market from 1980 to 1994 and the results support his belief that comparative advantage had shifted from Japan to Taiwan, Korea and Singapore. Balassa (1977) had undertaken an analysis of the pattern of comparative advantage of industrial countries for the period