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Human Development Seminar Series
Note: The views and opinions expressed in these seminars are those of the presenters and do not necessarily reflect those of UNDP or the Human Development Report.
Missing Dimensions of Gender Inequality in Chile
HDRO Conference Room
5 November 2009
This paper seeks to quantify gender inequality in Chile over a number of dimensions for which there is now information available from a new dataset commissioned by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative. The new dataset contains hitherto unavailable data on employment conditions, agency and empowerment, safety and security, shame and humiliation, and life satisfaction and subjective well-being.
Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America
HDRO Conference Room
30 October 2009
Why have some societies done better than others at reducing the risk of early death? The research to be presented in this seminar indicates that the public provision of basic health care and other inexpensive social services has reduced mortality rapidly even in tough economic circumstances, and that political democracy has contributed to the provision and utilization of such social services, in a wider range of ways than is sometimes recognized.
Human Development, MDGs and the International Development Agenda
HDRO Conference Room
24 September 2009
What should the strategic focus of HDRs be in 2010 and beyond to promote development for, by and of the people - to create an environment in which all people can fulfill their potential? This lecture will analyse the dynamics of intellectual, policy, and political factors that have influenced the policy and normative shifts in the international development agendas since 1990.
Child poverty and disparities in Kiribati, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu: Analysis geared for policy responses
HDRO Conference Room
25 August 2009
Per capita economic growth in the Pacific has been slower than other similar countries, and population growth rates in Solomon Islands and Vanuatu outstrip economic growth rates. Many children in the PICs suffer from malnutrition, lack access to and support for education, improved water supply and sanitation. This paper discusses the preliminary results of a benchmark study of child poverty and disparities carried out by the University of New South Wales.
Counting & Multidimensional Poverty Measurement Identification Axioms and Examples
HDRO Conference Room
25 July 2009
Measuring poverty as the lack of capabilities and freedoms is intrinsically a difficult endeavor. One empirically feasible approach to the measurement of freedom might be to construct a set of ordered pairs of functionings and agency measures pertaining to each of the basic functionings relevant to the evaluative purpose, where those functionings have also been argued to be basic by virtue of their 1) special importance and 2) socially influenceability.
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