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Human Development Research Papers (HDRPs): Thematic research on key issues and concepts of human development

HD Concepts

• Alkire, Sabina. "Human Development" [1,106 KB]

• Neumayer, Eric. "Human Development and Sustainability" [681 KB]

• Graham, Carol. "The Challenges of Incorporating Empowerment into the HDI" [374 KB]

• Fuentes-Nieva, Ricardo and Isabel Pereira. "The disconnect between indicators of sustainability and human development" [1,401 KB]

HD Trends

• Gray Molina, George and Mark Purser. "Human Development Trends since 1970" [1,285 KB]

• Pineda, José and Francisco Rodríguez. "Curse or Blessing? Natural Resources and Human Development" [706 KB]

• Ranis, Gustav and Frances Stewart. "Success and Failure in Human Development, 1970-2007" [878 KB]

• Desai, Manisha. "Hope in Hard Times" [465 KB]

• Kasirye, Ibrahim. "What are the successful strategies for reducing malnutrition among young children in East Africa?" [376 KB]

• Mayer-Foulkes, David. "Divergences and Convergences in Human Development" [842 KB]

• de la Torre, Rodolfo and Hector Moreno. "Advances in sub national measurement of the Human Development Index" [567 KB]

• Binder, Michael and Georgios Georgiadis. "Determinants of Human Development" [1,304 KB]

• Asher, Jana and Beth Osborne Daponte, "A Hypothetical Cohort Model of Human Development"

• Pritchett, Lant and Martina Viarengo. "Explaining the Cross-National Time Series Variation in Life Expectancy" [865 KB]

• Georgios, Georgiadis, José Pineda and Francisco Rodríguez. "Has the Preston Curve Broken Down?" [855 KB]

Measurement Methodologies

• Pritchett, Lant. "Birth Satisfaction Units (BSU)" [595 KB]

• Alkire, Sabina and Maria Emma Santos. "Acute Multidimensional Poverty" [2,795 KB]

• Herrero, Carmen, Ricardo Martínez and Antonio Villar. "Improving the Measurement of Human Development" [449 KB]

• Gaye, Amie and Shreyasi Jha. "A Review of Conceptual and Measurement Innovations in National and Regional Human Development Reports, 1998-2009" [694 KB]

• Harttgen, Kenneth and Stephan Klasen. "A Household-Based Human Development Index" [1,391 KB]

• Alkire, Sabina and James Foster. "Designing the Inequality-Adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI)" [409 KB]

• Kovacevic, Milorad. "Review of HDI Critiques and Potential Improvements" [763 KB]

• Kovacevic, Milorad. "Measurement of Inequality in Human Development - A Review" [708 KB]

• Hidalgo, César A.. "Graphical Statistical Methods for the Representation of the Human Development Index and its Components" [6,658 KB]

• Cheibub, José Antonio. "How to Include Political Capabilities in the HDI?" [675 KB]

• Gidwitz, Zachary, Martin Philipp Heger, José Pineda and Francisco Rodríguez. "Understanding Performance in Human Development" [703 KB]

• Gaye, Amie, Jeni Klugman, Milorad Kovacevic, Sarah Twigg and Eduardo Zambrano. "Measuring Key Disparities in Human Development" [749 KB]

• García Aguña, Clara and Milorad Kovacevic. "Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis of the Human Development Index" [1,410 KB]

HD and Governance

• Jayadev, Arjun. "Global Governance and Human Development" [540 KB]

• Walton, Michael. "Capitalism, the state, and the underlying drivers of human development" [653 KB]

HD Policy Input and Impact

• Guerschanik Calvo, Sara. "The Global Financial Crisis of 2008-10" [854 KB]

• Pagliani, Paola. "Influence of regional, national and sub-national HDRs" [368 KB]

• McGuire, James W.. "Political Factors and Health Outcomes" [453 KB]

• Harding, Robin and Leonard Wantchekon. "The Political Economy of Human Development" [328 KB]

• Commander, Simon. "Dealing with employment risk" [806 KB]

• Rodriguez, Francisco and Arjun Jayadev. "The Declining Labor Share of Income" [364 KB]

• Hamel, Jean-Yves. "ICT4D and the Human Development and Capabilities Approach" [465 KB]

• Canning, David. "Progress in Health around the World" [532 KB]

Regional Studies

• Stewart, Kitty. "Human Development in Europe" [949 KB]

• Fosu, Augustin Kwasi and Germano Mwabu. "Human Development in Africa" [1,226 KB]

• Brainerd, Elizabeth. "Human Development in Eastern Europe and the CIS Since 1990" [524 KB]

• Liu, Minquan and Yimeng Yin. "Human Development in East and Southeast Asian Economies" [2,994 KB]

• Salehi-Isfahani, Djavad. "Human Development in the Middle East and North Africa" [606 KB]

• Burd-Sharps, Sarah, Kristen Lewis, Patrick Guyer and Ted Lechterman. "Twenty Years of Human Development in Six Affluent Countries" [731 KB]

• Ivanov, Andrey and Mihail Peleah. "From centrally planned development to human development" [448 KB]

• Kumar, Avinash. "A Review of Human Development Trends in South Asia" [455 KB]