Human Development Research Papers (2009 to present)

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HDRP-2011-13: Inequality Decomposition without Income or Expenditure Data: Using an Asset Index to Simulate Household Income

Kenneth Harttgen and Sebastian Vollmer

HDRP-2011-11: Functionings, Capabilities and the 2010 Human Development Index

Eduardo Zambrano

HDRP-2011-10: An Axiomatization of the Human Development Index

Eduardo Zambrano

HDRP-2011-09: The Currency Transactions Tax: Feasibility, revenue estimates, and potential use of revenues

Rodney Schmidt and Aniket Bhushan

HDRP-2011-08: Forecasting the Impacts of Environmental Constraints on Human Development

Barry B. Hughes, Mohammod T. Irfan, Jonathan D. Moyer, Dale S. Rothman and José R. Solórzano

HDRP-2011-07: Sustainable Cooperation in Global Climate Policy: Specific Formulas and Emission Targets to Build on Copenhagen and Cancun Abstract: We offer a framework to assign quantitative allocations of emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), across countries, one budget period at a time. Under the two-part plan: (i) China, India, and other developing countries accept targets at Business as Usual (BAU) in the coming budget period, the same period in which the US first agrees to cuts below BAU; and (ii) all countries are asked in the future to make further cuts in accordance with a common numerical formula to all. The formula is expressed as the sum of a Progressive Reductions Factor, a Latecomer Catch-up Factor, and a Gradual Equalization Factor. This paper builds on our previous work in many ways. First we update targets to reflect pledges made by governments after the Copenhagen Accord of December 2010 and confirmed at the Cancun meeting of December 2011. Second, the WITCH model, which we use to project economic and environmental effects of any given set of emission targets, has been refined and updated to reflect economic and technological developments. We include the possibility of emissions reduction from bio energy (BE), carbon capture and storage (CCS), and avoided deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) which is an important component of pledges in several developing countries. Third, we use a Nash criterion for evaluating whether a country’s costs are too high to sustain cooperation

Valentina Bosetti and Jeffrey Frankel

HDRP-2011-06: Economic crises and Inequality

Anthony Atkinson and Salvatore Morelli

HDRP-2011-05: Sustainability in the Presence of Global Warming: Theory and Empirics

Humberto Llavador, John Roemer and Joaquim Silvestre

HDRP-2011-04: Sustainability and Inequality in Human Development

Eric Neumayer

HDRP-2011-03: Pursuing Clean Energy Equitably

Peter Newell, Jon Phillips and Dustin Mulvaney

HDRP-2011-02: Heterogeneity and Collective Action for Forest Management

Harini Nagendra

HDRP-2011-01: The HDI 2010: New Controversies, Old Critiques

Jeni Klugman, Francisco Rodríguez and Hyung-Jin Choi

HDRP-2010-47: Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis of the Human Development Index

Milorad Kovacevic and Clara García Aguña

HDRP-2010-46: Measuring Key Disparities in Human Development: The Gender Inequality Index

Amie Gaye, Jeni Klugman, Milorad Kovacevic, Sarah Twigg and Eduardo Zambrano

HDRP-2010-44: A Review of Human Development Trends in South Asia: 1990-2009

Avinash Kumar

HDRP-2010-43: Progress in Health around the World

David Canning

HDRP-2010-42: Understanding Performance in Human Development: A Cross-National Study

Zachary Gidwitz, Martin Philip Heger, Jose Pineda and Francisco Rodríguez

HDRP-2010-41: How to Include Political Capabilities in the HDI? An Evaluation of Alternatives

José Antonio Cheibub

HDRP-2010-40: A Hypothetical Cohort Model of Human Development

Jana Asher and Beth Osborne Daponte

HDRP-2010-39: Graphical Statistical Methods for the Representation of the Human Development Index and its Components

Cesar Hidalgo

HDRP-2010-38: From centrally planned development to human development

Andrey Ivanov and Mihail Peleah

HDRP-2010-37: ICT4D and the Human Development and Capability Approach: The Potentials of Information and Communication Technology

Jean-Yves Hamel

HDRP-2010-36: The Declining Labor Share of Income

Francisco Rodríguez and Arjun Jayadev

HDRP-2010-35: Measurement of Inequality In Human Development - A Review

Milorad Kovacevic

HDRP-2010-34: The disconnect between indicators of sustainability and human development

Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva and Isabel Pereira

HDRP-2010-33: Review of HDI Critiques and Potential Improvements

Milorad Kovacevic

HDRP-2010-32: Has the Preston Curve Broken Down?

Georgios Georgiadis, Jose Pineda and Francisco Rodríguez

HDRP-2010-31: Explaining the Cross-National Time Series Variation in Life Expectancy: Income, Women’s Education, Shifts, and What Else?

Lant Pritchett and Martina Viarengo

HDRP-2010-30: Dealing with employment risk: policy options for emerging markets

Simon Commander

HDRP-2010-29: The Political Economy of Human Development

Robin Harding and Leonard Wantchekon

HDRP-2010-28: Designing the Inequality-Adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI)

Sabina Alkire and James Foster

HDRP-2010-27: Twenty Years of Human Development in Six Affluent Countries: Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States

Sarah Burd-Sharps, Kristen Lewis, Patrick Guyer and Ted Lechterman

HDRP-2010-26: Human Development in the Middle East and North Africa

Djavad Salehi-Isfahani

HDRP-2010-25: Political Factors and Health Outcomes: Insight from Argentina's Provinces

James W. McGuire

HDRP-2010-24: Determinants of Human Development: Insights from State-Dependent Panel Models

Michael Binder and Georgios Georgiadis

HDRP-2010-23: Advances in sub national measurement of the Human Development Index: The case of Mexico

Rodolfo de la Torre and A. Héctor Moreno

HDRP-2010-22: A Household-Based Human Development Index

Kenneth Harttgen and Stephan Klasen

HDRP-2010-21: A Review of Conceptual and Measurement Innovations in National and Regional Human Development Reports, 1998-2009

Amie Gaye and Shreyasi Jha

HDRP-2010-20: Divergences and Convergences in Human Development

David Mayer-Foulkes

HDRP-2010-19: Influence of regional, national and sub-national HDRs

Paola Pagliani

HDRP-2010-18: The Global Financial Crisis of 2008-10: A View from the Social Sectors

Sara Guerschanik Calvo

HDRP-2010-17: Human Development in East and Southeast Asian Economies: 1990-2010

Minquan Liu and Yimeng Yin

HDRP-2010-16: Human Development in Eastern Europe and the CIS Since 1990

Elizabeth Brainerd

HDRP-2010-15: What are the successful strategies for reducing malnutrition among young children in East Africa?

Ibrahim Kasirye

HDRP-2010-14: Hope in Hard Times: Women’s Empowerment and Human Development

Manisha Desai

HDRP-2010-13: The Challenges of Incorporating Empowerment into the HDI: Some Lessons from Happiness Economics and Quality of Life Research

Carol Graham

HDRP-2010-12: Improving the Measurement of Human Development

Carmen Herrero, Ricardo Martínez and Antonio Villar

HDRP-2010-11: Acute Multidimensional Poverty: A New Index for Developing Countries

Sabina Alkire and Maria Emma Santos

HDRP-2010-10: Success and Failure in Human Development, 1970-2007

Gustav Ranis and Frances Stewart

HDRP-2010-09: Capitalism, the state, and the underlying drivers of human development

Michael Walton