Economic Growth and Development
Ways of thinking about growth To an economist there are three main ways of thinking about growth: as a process of change; as pro ...
dependent on the natural environment would have reduced the country’s growth rate from an average of 7 per cent to only 4 per ce ...
and also the possible choices not taken? In practice researchers have tended to measure factors associated with enhancing the ab ...
only 44 per cent of that in England in 1931 but increased steadily to 82 per cent in 1999 (Kenny, 2005:5). Table 1.3 shows that ...
have tried to calculate historical measures of HDI (see Box 1.1) enabling long- term comparisons of broader ideas of development ...
are found in the Middle East and North Africa where the GDI is up to 33 per cent lower than the HDI. These gaps are not just a p ...
politically, socially, spiritually, psychologically and culturally. We must be fully developed in terms of national unity and so ...
households of the basket of goods and services needed for a healthy life or just the opportunity to acquire them regardless of w ...
physical attributes such as height, weight, or upper-arm circumference. These latter measures have highlighted a particular conc ...
Ethiopia and Tanzania have shown more improvement over time, seeing rates drop by ten percentage points. In most of these cases ...
A second puzzle is that the problem of malnutrition/under-nutrition in India is not just about poverty. Although underweight chi ...
to support pregnancy. The shift from agriculture to urban industry has reduced the need for high calorie consumption by manual l ...
The 1776 US Declaration of Independence takes it as self-evident that the ‘pursuit of happiness’ is an ‘unalienable right’ along ...
Growth as an assumption of progress How do we make value judgements about whether things have got better over time? In particula ...
benefits from modernization and whether such change is progress depends upon how one weighs up its costs and benefits. There hav ...
not economic growth in itself that is crucial but whether higher incomes are used to expand public health services. We can use t ...
1960 to 1992 they showed that growth is good for human development and that GDP is positively affected by the initial level of l ...
Chapter 2 Growth in the Modern World Economy since 1950 In the period after 1950, most countries had largely recovered from the ...
1990s Mauritius has been labelled a miracle. This chapter outlines some of those catastrophes, some of the miracles and many of ...
15 per cent in 1998; China’s somewhat less so to 6.3 per cent in 1998 (Crafts, 2004:52). Much in line with our discussion in the ...
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