Occasional Papers

Changes in income, education and health inequality over the last 20 years: evidence from Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia

By: Giovanni Andrea Cornia
2016
This paper analyses the interactions among income, health and educational inequality, and reviews changes in the distribution of income, health and education during the last three decades in Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The analysis...Read more

Beyond the HDI? Assessing alternative measures of human development from a capability perspective

By: Flavio Comim
2016
This paper explores how the human development perspective can be enlarged by further using the capability approaches of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum. It delves into the main characteristics of their contributions, highlighting the role of social...Read more

The Dynamics of Horizontal Inequalities

By: Frances Stewart
2016
Horizontal inequalities, or inequalities among identity groups, tend to be very persistent. Yet much depends on the nature of the groups and on the dimensions of inequality. Horizontal inequalities across some groups may enlarge and others may diminish;...Read more

Global Green Growth for Human Development

By: Robert Pollin
2016
The world is not on track to achieve climate stabilization: a global mean temperature between 1.50C to 20C above pre-industrial levels no later than 2100—the goal of the Paris Agreement. The paper illustrates the opportunities and challenges posed by the...Read more

The Capability Approach and Human Development: Some Reflections

By: S. R. Osmani
2016
The human development discourse is conceptually underpinned by the capability approach. As such, a number of doubts and misgivings that have emerged over time regarding the capability approach has also caused a renewed soul-searching over the conceptual...Read more

Global Governance and Growth for Human Development

By: Stephany Griffith-Jones
2016
This paper analyses policies to enhance inclusive growth and human development through two key institutional dimensions: the articulation of multilateral, regional and national development banks, and the coordination of fiscal and monetary policies at...Read more

Gender Equality in Human Development – Measurement Revisited

By: Hsu, Yu-Chieh; Kovacevic, Milorad
2015
Gender equality and women’s empowerment are integral to human development. Since the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action in 1995, considerable progress has been made, yet in the mean while along with existing shortfalls, new and extensive...Read more

Gender Equality in Human Development – Measurement Revisited

By: Hsu, Yu-Chieh; Kovacevic, Milorad
2015
Gender equality and women’s empowerment are integral to human development. Since the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action in 1995, considerable progress has been made, yet in the mean while along with existing shortfalls, new and extensive...Read more

Work as Art: Links between Creative Work and Human Development

By: Patrick Kabanda
2015
Creative work has enhanced human development since early times; similarly, the latter can expand the former. But the links are not automatic. Creative work can be rife with exploitation and gender bias. Writers can advance human welfare, yet illiterate...Read more

Peace Work: Labour Markets, Work and Violence

By: Christopher Cramer
2015
Violence in its many forms—physical, psychological, structural—has profound and complex effects on socioeconomic development. If human development is regarded as the expansion of freedoms, then violence has pervasive restricting impacts on these that go...Read more