Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5: Progress in the Least Developed Countries of Asia

José Antonio Rodríguez Martín (), Juan Dios Jiménez Aguilera, José Antonio Salinas Fernández and José María Martín Martín
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José Antonio Rodríguez Martín: University of Granada
Juan Dios Jiménez Aguilera: University of Granada
José Antonio Salinas Fernández: University of Granada
José María Martín Martín: International University of La Rioja

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2016, vol. 129, issue 2, No 1, 489-504

Abstract: Abstract The aim of this study is to propose a territorial measure of maternal and child health in the least developed countries of Asia based on the criteria established in the United Nations Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 , in a context in which international progress between countries has been uneven up to 2013. Pena’s DP2 method is used to compose a synthetic indicator of MDGs 4 and 5 levels for 2013, the last year for which data are available. The index includes information on different variables defined in the Millennium Declaration, as well as a study of the impact of each individual indicator on the outcome of the synthetic indicator of MDGs 4 and 5 levels, and enables classification of these countries in terms of these variables.

Keywords: Least developed countries of Asia; Maternal and Child Health Disparities; Millennium Development Goals; Post-2015 agenda; Synthetic indicators (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/s11205-015-1149-5

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