BACKGROUND In an era of worldwide population displacement, recent studies have identified strong associations between social situations and perinatal outcomes among immigrants. Little is known about the effect of maternal social background on pregnancy outcomes. The Human Development Index (HDI) assesses the following dimensions of human development: life expectancy, education level and income....

— One of the most frequent critiques of the HDI is that it does not take into account inequality within countries. We suggest a methodology which allows to compute the three components and the overall HDI for quintiles of the income distribution. This allows comparisons of the level in human development of the poor and non-poor within and across countries. An empirical illustration shows large ...

Introduction: A study was presented in New York 2003 investigating a proposed measurement system, the Hair Volume Index (HVI), for evaluating visual hair density. This based on idea that scalp coverage related to measured volume of given area. The results did not support this contention but rather density correlated with number hairs and shaft diameter, which led development Diame...

BACKGROUND The incidence and mortality of kidney cancer have steadily increased by 2%- 3% per decade worldwide, and an increased risk of kidney cancer has been observed in many Asian countries. The information on the incidence and mortality of a disease and its distribution is essential for better planning for prevention and further studies. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to assess the incidence...

Implementation of the sustainable socio-economic development goals is an important task for any country, which why researchers pay attention to analysis factors that influence development. Human one components in a wide context. The level human largely depends on quality institutional environment society. article examines relationship between and quality. Development Index (HDI) Worldwide Gover...

The central intent of this study is to locate the fallouts Foreign Capital Inflows (FCI) on economic development. Influenced from Human Development Index (HDI), constructs development are disaggregated in multiple models and time series estimation done while relied upon forty-two years data ranging 1980 2021. For cointegration analyses, Bound Test Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) used. Fin...

This article recounts the intellectual history of the UNDP’s Human Development Index. It begins with the early history of welfare economics and follows this field through three successive revolutions in thought culminating in the theory of human development. The first section traces this history from the origins of economic “utility” theory to Sen’s human capabilities approach. The second secti...

This paper reviews critiques of the Human Development Report over the last twenty years. The critiques are mostly related to the choice of indicators, to high correlation of HDI components, functional form of the HDI including normalization of component indicators, aggregation vs. multiplication, and issues related to weighting. A thorough analysis of the critiques leads us to a proposal for mo...

The achievement of human development can be reviewed from the Human Development Index (HDI), which is sourced indicators health, education, and state income. East Java Province second-most populous province in Indonesia has a high work intensity economic aspects abundant natural resources. However, judging level index, occupies lowest position compared to other provinces on island Java. This st...

Debates over economic growth generally focus on factor supply, especially capital accumulation, labor stock and skill, natural resources, technological capacity. Quality of human life, as well distribution national income among citizens are evaluated in terms their effects performance, this study. The relationship between growth, development, Turkiye is analyzed with ARDL test using the data 19...