Occasional Papers

Employment in Conflict and Post-conflict Situations

By: Frances Stewart
2015
There is a common view that unemployment is a critical factor leading to conflict; that employment is a casualty of conflict; and that therefore the creation of jobs should be a priority in post-conflict situations. This is in order to make the...Read more

Valuing Non-market Work

By: Nancy Folbre
2015
The unpaid time that people devote to the care of family, friends and neighbours clearly contributes to economic living standards, social well-being and the development of human capabilities. The rapid proliferation of nationally representative time-use...Read more

Globalization of Production, Work and Human Development: Is a Race to the Bottom Inevitable?

By: Rizwanul Islam
2015
Economic globalization involves trade, capital flows and the movement of labour, and an important element in that process is the globalization of production. With the gradual dismantling of trade barriers, and capital flows becoming easier, globalization...Read more

Globalization of Work

By: Rolph van der Hoeven
2015
The term globalization became popular in the last decade of the 20th century. Although the phenomenon itself is actually much older, with periods of globalization in the 16th and 19th centuries, current globalization is marked by several phenomena at the...Read more
Happiness and HD

Happiness and Human Development

By: Hall, Jon; Helliwell, John F.
2014
Those who are interested in promoting the collection and use of subjective wellbeing data often cite the importance of such data to help balance the attention otherwise placed almost exclusively on indicators of economic activity, such as Gross Domestic...Read more
Happiness and HD

Happiness and Human Development

By: Hall, Jon; Helliwell, John F.
2014
Those who are interested in promoting the collection and use of subjective wellbeing data often cite the importance of such data to help balance the attention otherwise placed almost exclusively on indicators of economic activity, such as Gross Domestic...Read more
Computation of MPI

UNDP’s Multidimensional Poverty Index: Methodology Paper (2014)

By: Kovacevic, Milorad; Calderon, Cecilia
2014
Methodology Paper: 2014 Technical description of the 2014 Multidimensional Poverty Index by Milorad Kovacevic and Cecilia Calderon.Read more
MPI Paper Cover

The Multidimensional Poverty Index: Achievements, Conceptual and Empirical Issues

By: Dotter, Caroline; Klasen, Stephan
2014
The MPI has been an interesting and important effort to provide a household-level multidimensional poverty measure that can compete in depth and coverage with the widely used (and problematic) $1.25 a day income poverty indicator. We strongly suggest...Read more
MPI Paper Cover

The Multidimensional Poverty Index: Achievements, Conceptual and Empirical Issues

By: Dotter, Caroline; Klasen, Stephan
2014
The MPI has been an interesting and important effort to provide a household-level multidimensional poverty measure that can compete in depth and coverage with the widely used (and problematic) $1.25 a day income poverty indicator. We strongly suggest...Read more
Computation of MPI

UNDP’s Multidimensional Poverty Index: Methodology Paper (2014)

By: Kovacevic, Milorad; Calderon, Cecilia
2014
Methodology Paper: 2014 Technical description of the 2014 Multidimensional Poverty Index by Milorad Kovacevic and Cecilia Calderon.Read more