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What’s in a Name?: Human Rights, Human Development, and Human Dignity
David L. Richards Over the past decades, the terms ‘human rights’ and ‘human development’ have been characterized as being: complementary to one...
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Global inequality in length of life, 1950–2015This paper provides a broad picture of national, regional and global trends of inequality in length of life over the period 1950–2015. We use data on life tables from World Population Prospects to develop a comprehensive database of a battery of...
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Undernutrition in Sub-Saharan AfricaThe predominant perception is that the world's food problems are now concentrated in Sub-Saharan Africa. Declining food production and recurrent famine in many African countries are the focal points of much recent work on food problems. This paper...
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Measuring Health Inequality with Realization of Potential Life Year (RePLY)Part of Journal Special Issue Health and Development
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Life Expectancy and Welfare in Latin America and the CaribbeanPart of Journal Special Issue Health and Development
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Health Inequality and DeprivationPart of Journal Special Issue Health and Development
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Public Sector Efficiency, Foreign Aid and Small Island Developing StatesPart of Journal Special Issue Policy Arena: Small Island Developing States
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Convergence Clubs in Cross-Country Life Expectancy DynamicsI model life expectancy in terms of physical and human capital and technology, the fundamental economic variables described by economic growth theories. For concreteness, the Solow model and a convergence club growth model by Howitt and Mayer (2001)...
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Rural and Urban Income Inequality and PovertyPart of Book Inequality, Growth and Poverty in an Era of Liberalization and Globalization
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Economic Lessons from Recent Research for Achieving SDG8
This article is part of UNU’s “17 Days, 17 Goals” series, featuring research and commentary in support of the United Nations Sustainable Development...
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From the Editor's Desk (September-October 2015)
UNU-WIDER had a busy September. We celebrated our 30th birthday with some 600 people at our three-day conference on ‘Mapping the Future of Development...
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A Review of External Assistance and Aid Effectiveness for Maternal and Child HealthThis paper primarily focuses on how global funding has supported interventions that have proven to be successful in reducing maternal, newborn, and child mortality around the world. The growth rate of development assistance targeted towards these...
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Convergence Clubs in Cross-Country Life Expectancy DynamicsPart of Book Perspectives on Growth and Poverty
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