Abstract: Energy intensity is a measure of the energy efficiency of a nation’s economy. Many factors influence a country’s energy intensity. In this paper, however, we note the effective factors of energy intensity and decompose it by applying Logistic Smooth Transition Regression (LSTR) in Iran during the period 1980- 2013. The main factors are the ratio of the added value of se...

Background: It is necessary to get information on nutrition situation in children and epidemiology of the malnutrition to use for planning and health policy making, therefore this study aimed to identify the role of human development on nutrition situation in children under-five years of old worldwide.Methods: This ecological study was performed on the relation of the nutrition situation of chi...

The main goal of this study is to investigate the impact of information and communication technology (ICT) on human development in the six Gulf Cooperation Council countries (GCC), particularly, the effect of ICT development index on the three-key component of human development; income, health, and education. The study focused on the years 2005-2014. Based on the theoretical background explaine...

Human Development Index (HDI) has been subject to a lot of criticism over time, with the idea that it does not fully reflect human development, and complemented different indicators in various studies. Despite its importance, especially considering requirements era, logistics considered HDI and, although there are many synthetic indices combine methods (i.e. DEA, MCDM etc.) HDI, these far from ...

the goal of human development as can be understood by concept is to benefit every person in his / her life. it means improvement in living quality & standards. while the extension of employment and increasing of income are necessary , they are not the goals of development, but means to extend human development. the goal of development is to grow and extend of human abilities. human development ...

gender equality, equity and women`s empowerment are the essential factors for integral human development and also key factors for all countries to achieve economic, political and social development. the main goal of this paper is a comparative study on women`s status in malaysia and iran as two developing countries, which are similar from different aspects. the method used in this research is c...

introduction: it was often believed that countries with natural resource abundance would undergo the process of development with a more accelerated pace in comparison to other countries. the experimental results, however, demonstrate a higher rate of success for countries which lack the said resources. the paradoxical effects of the possession, or a lack there of, natural resources on different...