...It is ranked at 136 along with Equatorial Guinea while Sri Lanka strides ahead Over the past three decades, India has made good progress on the human development index (HDI), says the Human Development Report 2013, released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). However, India’s rank out of 187 countries is no better than last year’s. With a HDI value of 0.554 and a rank of 136 among 187 countries, which it shares with Equatorial Guinea, India is placed in the “medium development” category. There has been steady improvement in its HDI value, which was 0.345 in 1980. In 1950, Brazil, China and India together represented 10 per cent of the world economy, while the six traditional economic leaders of the North accounted for more than half. According to projections in the report, by 2050, Brazil, China and India will together account for 40 per cent of global output, far surpassing the projected combined production of today’s Group of Seven bloc. | | | HDI is a composite statistic of life expectancy, education, and income indices used to rank countries in four tiers of human development. Since 2011, the UNDP report has included an inequality adjusted HDI, also known as IHDI, which attempts to include the effects of inequality on human development. The IHDI for India this year is 0.392. High gender inequality The country fails miserably on the front of gender equality. On the gender equality index, with a value of 0.610, India has one of the worst indicators...
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...Human Development Report 2013 The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World Explanatory note on 2013 HDR composite indices Viet Nam HDI values and rank changes in the 2013 Human Development Report Introduction The 2013 Human Development Report presents Human Development Index (HDI) values and ranks for 187 countries and UN-recognized territories, along with the Inequality-adjusted HDI for 132 countries, the Gender Inequality Index for 148 countries, and the Multidimensional Poverty Index for 104 countries. Country rankings and values in the annual Human Development Index (HDI) are kept under strict embargo until the global launch and worldwide electronic release of the Human Development Report. It is misleading to compare values and rankings with those of previously published reports, because the underlying data and methods have changed. Readers are advised in the Report to assess progress in HDI values by referring to table 2 (‘Human Development Index Trends’) in the Statistical Annex of the report. Table 2 is based on consistent indicators, methodology and time-series data and thus shows real changes in values and ranks over time reflecting the actual progress countries have made. Caution is requested when interpreting small changes in values because they may not be statistically significant due to the sampling variation. Generally speaking, changes in third decimal of all composite indices are considered insignificant. For further details on how each...
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...Journal of Pro Poor Growth. 01 (01) 2013. 19-28 ISSN: 2306-1669 (Online), 2310-4686 (Print) Journal of Pro Poor Growth An International Perspective http://www.escijournals.net/JPPG ACHIEVEMENTS OF MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS (MDGS) IN SOUTH ASIAN ASSOCIATION OF REGIONAL CORPORATIONS (SAARC) COUNTRIES: A CASE OF NEPAL Kushum Shakya* Central Department of Economics, Tribhuvan University, Nepal. ABSTRACT South Asian Association of Regional Cooperative (SAARC) countries have achieved considerable progress in socioeconomic indicators like poverty reduction, educational attainment and improved health facilities. The progress, however, is not uniform across the countries. The aim of this paper is to assess the progress made by SAARC with regard to selected Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and its achievement and gap in Nepal. The paper shows; i) Status of SAARC countries with respect to selected MDGs, ii) Achievements of MDGs in the case of Nepal and iii) the gaps to achieving the targets. The paper shows that the most SAARC countries including Nepal have performed poorly with MDGs. It is therefore concluded that there is need to prioritize to meet all goals in post MDGs for Nepal. Keywords: SAARC, MDG, Post-MDG, socio-economic. INTRODUCTION The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have eight goals to be achieved by 2015 that respond to the world's main development challenges. The MDGs are drawn from the actions and targets contained in the Millennium Declaration that...
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...1.0 Introduction Malaysia, an upper-middle income country, is a federal constitutional monarchy which consists of 13 states and 3 federal territories located in Southeast Asia. Besides, Malaysia has a newly industrialised market economy which is relatively open state-oriented. It was ranked 3rd largest economy in Southeast Asia and 29th largest economy in the world by purchasing power parity in year 2007. In recent years, Malaysia has successfully transformed itself from being the world’s largest producer of raw material such as tin and rubber to being a diversified economy to reduce the dependence of exported goods. As a result, Malaysia GDP is now driven mainly by the services and manufacturing sectors (Malaysia Factbook 2014). 2.0 Malaysia Economic Growth Rate Table of Malaysia GDP Growth (Annual %) from year 2003-2012 Year | GDP Growth (Annual %) | 2003 | 6 | 2004 | 7 | 2005 | 5 | 2006 | 6 | 2007 | 6 | 2008 | 5 | 2009 | -2 | 2010 | 7 | 2011 | 5 | 2012 | 6 | Sources: The World Bank Group 2014a Line chart of Malaysia GDP Growth (Annual %) from year 2003-2012 Sources: The World Bank Group 2014a The x-axis of the line chart above represents years from 2003 to 2012 while y-axis represents Malaysia’s GDP Annual Growth Rate. GDP Growth (Annual %) can be defined as annual percentage growth rate of GDP at market prices based on constant local currency (Index Mundi 2014a). According to the line chart, GDP Annual Growth Rate in Malaysia is at...
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...Human Development Index 1 Human Development Index The Human Development Index (HDI) is a composite statistic of life expectancy, education, and income indices used to rank countries into four tiers of human development. It was created by the Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq and the Indian economist Amartya Sen in 1990[1] and was published by the United Nations Development Programme.[2] World map by quartiles of Human Development Index in 2013. Origins The origins of the HDI are found in the annual Development Reports of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). These were devised and launched by Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq in 1990 and had the explicit purpose "to shift the focus of development economics from national income accounting to people-centered policies". To produce the Human Development Reports, Mahbub ul Haq brought together a group of well-known development economists including: Paul Streeten, Frances Stewart, Gustav Ranis, Keith Griffin, Sudhir Anand and Meghnad Desai. Working along with Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, they worked on capabilities and functionings that provided the underlying conceptual framework. Haq was sure that a simple composite measure of human development was needed in order to convince the public, academics, and policy-makers that they can and should evaluate development not only by economic advances but also improvements in human well-being. Sen initially opposed this idea, but he went on to help Haq develop the Index...
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...Group Activity- Caselet 2 Group 7 1. The Philippines is No. 83 on HDI ranking last 2003, No.112 last 2011 and No. 114 as reported by UNDP for 2013. Account on the reasons for such changes. Compare the following factors; a. life expectancy b. literacy c. average GDP Despite gains it has made on the economic front, the Philippines remained at 114th globally for the 5th straight year in the Human Development Index (HDI) released by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) on Friday, March 15. The HDI is a key indicator of citizens' state of health, education, and income, among others. In the 2013 Human Development Report titled "The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World," the UNDP said the Philippines' HDI score has been improving in the past 30 years. But its score -- 0.654 -- is still slightly below the East Asia and the Pacific regional average of 0.683. (A total of 186 countries were covered by the UNDP study.) Some data on the Philippines from the 2013 HDR include the following: * The life expectancy of Filipinos is 69 years old. * The mean years of schooling in the Philippines is 8.9 years while the expected years of schooling is 11.7 years. * The country's Gross National Income per capita level is $3,752 (computed using 2005 purchasing power parity) * The country ranked 77th overall in the Gender Inequality Index, the third lowest rank in the ASEAN. * Around 18.4% of the population lived below $1.25 in the 2011-2012...
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...particular, he believed that the commonly used measure of Gross Domestic Product failed to adequately measure well-being. Working with Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen and other gifted economists, in 1990 Dr. Haq published the first Human Development Report, which was commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme. The Human Development Index was developed as an alternative to simple money metrics. It is easy-to-understand numerical measures made up of what most people believe are the very basic ingredients of human well-being: health, education, and income. The first Human Development Index was presented in 1990. It has been an annual feature of every Human Development Report since, ranking virtually every country in the world from number one currently Norway, to number 186 Niger. Like all averages, it conceals disparities in human development across the population within the same country. To account for this there is the Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI). The IHDI takes into account not only the average achievements of a country on health, education and income, but also how those achievements are distributed among its citizens by “discounting” each dimension’s average value according to its level of inequality. While the HDI can...
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...CLASS: BBA 5-D COURSE INSTRUCTOR: SIR DR IQBAL PANHWAR COURSE: DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS SUBMITTED BY: M.SHARIQUE SHAFIQUE REG NO: 35233 ABSTRACT The objective of the report is to know, how Finland Developed and Growth as an Economy in the past years till now. They achieve developed ranked from developing stage. Their Growth infrastructure, Indicators of demographics, economic and health. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would like to thank my teacher SIR DR IQBAL AHMED PANHWAR(PHD), for giving this opportunity for doing the report on the topic “ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN Finland” and he motivates suggestions and encouragement as well as helped me to coordinate in my report by giving information about this topic . I would also like to thank Sir Asad Ali Minhas (Teacher Assistant) for his acceptance and giving me valuable time for answering my question regarding this Report.. This study has indeed helped me to explore more knowledgeable ways related to this topic and I am sure that it will help us in our future! S.NO | Contents | Page No | | | | 1 | Acknowledgement | 3 | 2 | Table of country profile | 5 | 3 | Introduction | 6 | 4 | Economy Of Finland | 9 | 5 | Human Development Index(HDI) | 10 | 6 | Economy Sectors Of Finland | 12 | 7 | Indicators | 14 | 8 | Rostow’s Growth Model | 16 | 9 | Conclusion | 16 | | References | 16 | TABLE OF CONTENTS Capital and largest city | Helsinki 60°10′N 024°56′E | Official languages...
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... | |03. |Mahmudur Rahman Polash |141 64 015 | |04. |Md. Mohsin Alam |132 64 001 | |Section: 01 | Date of Submission: 28-03-2015 Letter of Transmittal March 28, 2015 Dr. Salehuddin Ahmed Course Instructor BRAC Business School BRAC University Subject: Submission of report on “Human Development of Bangladesh” Dear Sir, With due respect & humble submission, we the students of M.B.A. Spring 2015, are submitting the report on “Human Development of Bangladesh”. It gives us immense pleasure to inform you that we have completed the report under your kind hearted direct supervision. Now, we have placed this report before you for your approval. We hope that our report will satisfy you. Sincerely yours, ………………………… RubaiyaBinte Mustafa ID: 14164005 ………………………… Sigma Sharmeen KhanPrema ID: 14164010 …………………………. Mahmudur Rahman Polash …………………………... Md. Mohsin Alam ID: 13264001 Acknowledgement At first we would like to thank Almighty...
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...or their stakeholders to understand whether the organization is on track or not.” Performance indicators or key performance indicators are used in assessing the performance of workers. They help an organization define and measure progress toward organizational goals. Performance indicators are financial and non-financial indicators that org’s use in order to estimate and fortify how successful they are, aiming previously established long lasting goals. They are quantifiable measurements, agreed to beforehand, that reflect the critical success factors of an organization. According to the Ghana Living Standard Survey (GLSS 5 – 2006/2007), Ghana has life expectancy of 57.9 years compared to the world average of 64.3 in 2006. By 2013, the life expectancy of Ghanaians is estimated to increase to 66 years (“Ghana-2010 Population and Housing Census”) Infant mortality stands at 71 per 1000 live births, while 111 out of 1000...
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...How do you account for India’s failure to demonstrate Chinese rates of growth? Over the past two decades, one of the most compelling economic stories has been the rise of India and China, two of Jim O’Neill’s “BRIC” countries (FT Magazine, 2010). Despite the implementation of different economic policies (Gupta, 2008) both countries have emerged as major economic forces in the global economy (Bosworth and Collins, 2007), most notably since 1980. Since then, India and China have experienced a significant reduction in poverty with China lifting 500 million out of social deprivation. According to the World Bank (2013), China has had an average GDP of 10% each year while India has seen her GDP double over a similar period. The countries are often compared due to their large population and geographical vastness as well as climbing from third world countries to major economic forces in a relatively short time. However, despite a significant increase in GDP, India has failed to demonstrate the same rates of growth as China. Although both countries were in a similar position during the early nineties, China’s GDP has increased 7 fold since this time; whereas India, although steady, GDP has doubled. The average annual rate is by 10% in China compared to 5-6% in India (see Figure 1). The purpose of this paper is to compare the rates of growth of India and China over the past 30 years and examine possible explanations for this phenomenon. The economies of these countries are...
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...Human Development Report 2014 Sustaining Human Progress: Reducing Vulnerabilities and Building Resilience Empowered lives. Resilient nations. The 2014 Human Development Report is the latest in the series of global Human Development Reports published by UNDP since 1990 as independent, empirically grounded analyses of major development issues, trends and policies. Additional resources related to the 2014 Human Development Report can be found online at http://hdr.undp.org, including complete editions or summaries of the Report in more than 20 languages, a collection of papers commissioned for the 2014 Report, interactive maps and databases of national human development indicators, full explanations of the sources and methodologies employed in the Report’s human development indices, country profiles and other background materials as well as previous global, regional and national Human Development Reports. Human Development Report 2014 Sustaining Human Progress: Reducing Vulnerabilities and Building Resilience Empowered lives. Resilient nations. Published for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Human Development Reports 1990–2014 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007/2008 2009 2010 2011 2013 2014 Concept and Measurement of Human Development Financing Human Development Global Dimensions of Human Development People’s Participation New Dimensions of Human Security Gender and Human Development Economic...
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...RMIT International University Vietnam Subject Code: | BUSM3311 | Subject Name: | International Business | Location & Campus (SGS or HN) where you study: | RMIT Vietnam | Title of Assignment: | Final Report (#2 Assignment) | Student name: | Vu Tran Hoang Anh | Student Number: | S3343719 | Teachers Name: | Dennis Tan | Group Number: | #2 | Assignment due date: | 19.08.2013 | Date of Submission: | | Number of pages including this one: | 19 | Word Count: | 2,697 (Included picture/chart in-text citations) | Bachelor of Commerce Program Assignment Cover Page BUSM3311: International Business Name: Vu Tran Hoang Anh | Student ID: s3343719 | SABECO | BUSINESS REPORT | Contents BACKGROUND OF COMPANY 2 AUSTRALIAN MARKET BACKGROUND 4 Market overview 4 Market opportunity 7 COMPETITORS 8 BUSINESS MODEL CONSIDERATION 9 International Joint Venture (IJV) 9 Exporting 10 Wholly Owned Subsidiaries (WOS) 10 PEST ANALYSIS 11 Political 11 Economics 11 Social 12 Technology 13 CRITICAL RISK 14 CONCLUSION 14 REFERENCE LIST 15 BACKGROUND OF COMPANY Saigon Beer Alcohol and Beverage Corporation (SABECO) has a developing history going along with the raise of the brand Saigon Beer. SABECO was officially established in 2003 and the head office is located in 06 Hai Ba Trung Street, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City. Before officially getting in with the current name of SABECO, company had been through several stages of developing...
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...Romana 2014 For an economy other than Australia analyze the influence of globalisation on that economic development and standard of living. This document is about how china has been transformed by globalization. The impact of globalization as well. Globalisation is breakdown of manmade and natural barriers. It encourages integration and interdependence through the movement of labour, investment, finance, transnational corporation and trade. The emergence of countries is leading to global market place or single world market. Globalisation is ongoing since 1980s.This is resulting in one global market. Globalisation helps firms grow as investments are quickly managed. This is due to improvement in telecommunication between nations. This has allowed investors to invest overseas. It also caused an increase in international investment, which helped spread new ideas. Financial flow is a flow of money around the world it is increasing rapidly because of financial deregulation. Finance and technology move freely between nations while free movement of labour is stretched way off. The last few decades have been centred on removal of all trade barriers. The goal is not free trade but it is freer trade. Through the reduction in barriers it is improved in transportation system. The integration between nations has caused to problems such the GFC, Asian crisis and Euro crisis. Over the past labour markets have been increasingly integrated. The free movement of labour is important...
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...shows the education situation of the countries over the years from 2000 to 2013. The research conducted was based on several websites’ comparison due to the fact that most of these databases are incomplete. The report examines 11 countries from each group based on random selection, but each part of the globe. The main question to be answered is whether there is a correlation between education, living standards (education, health…) and the type of country. How has the level of education changed the world in recent years? Today, education is still inaccessible right for millions of children worldwide. Over-age children attend 72 million primary school do not attend school and more than 759 million adults are illiterate and do not have the knowledge to improve their lives and those of their children. 1 Analyse of the data Enrolment rate in primary school in 2006 and 2013 (percentage) 2006 2013 Brazil 95 95 Canada 100 100 Côte d'Ivoire 62 62 France 99 99 Germany 96 100 Guinea 51 76 Hungary 89 97 India 84 99 Niger 40 64 South Africa 87 90 United States 92 93 Total n= 11 11 Average 81.36 88.64 Median 89 95 MAX 100 100 MIN 40 62 Range 60 38 We can infer that in general the enrolment rate in primary school increased between 2006 and 2013 because on average it rose from 81.36% to 88.64% which is positive. However...
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