Dimensions Of Human Development Research Articles

Regional Dimensions of Human Development in India and South Africa Through Sustainable Development Goals, by Utsav Kumar Singh

Regional Dimensions of Human Development in India and South Africa Through Sustainable Development Goals, by Utsav Kumar Singh

Human Development On The Educational Dimension in East Kutai Regency

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a key metric for measuring achievement in improving human well-being. Various factors, such as economic growth and household expenditure, can have an impact on education's human development dimension. The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of economic expansion on household expenditure and human development in terms of schooling. The data analysis technique employs Multiple Regression with SmartPLS SEM (Partial Least Square - Structural Equation Modeling) software. According to the study's findings, economic growth has a significant effect on household spending, but not on human development in the educational dimension, household spending has a significant impact on economic development in the educational dimension, and household spending can mediate the influence of economic growth on human development in the educational dimension in East Kutai. Finally, it is vital to boost economic growth based on the agricultural sector, which can improve the welfare of the community, hence increasing human development in the educational dimension in East Kutai Regency.

Effectiveness of GPCA in Reducing Data Dimensions and its Application to Human Development Dimension Indicators Data

Effectiveness of GPCA in Reducing Data Dimensions and its Application to Human Development Dimension Indicators Data

Equidad y trabajo sexual: un análisis a la luz de los determinantes sociales de la salud

There is a context of socio-political inequalities and unmet needs for sex work, which constitute an extreme injustice. The objectiveof this article is to analyze the social determinants of health that generate inequity in the sex worker population of a Colombian city. Quantitative research with an associative approach was used, and the population consisted of 131 cisgender and transgender sexworkers. Snowball sampling was carried out, and the information was entered into the Gender Observatory system and was processed and analyzed with SPSS. Among the results, the average age was 34.24 ± 9.610 years, range 18 to 61 years. A total of 59.6% reported being single, 7.6% had no education, and 29.8% had only primary school education. Fifteen percent were not enrolled in health insurance, and 96.9% reported incomes of less than one minimum monthly salary. This reflects the vulnerability, inequity and challenges in various dimensions of human development. The conditions of education, health and employment were the social determinants that generate the greatest inequity, therefore, the formulation of public policies for the benefit of sex workers will address these challenges to ensure adequate access to education, health services and labor rights, with the empowerment of this group that has been violated to improve their quality of life.

Spatial inequality in sub-national human development index: A case study of West Bengal districts

Human Development and its regional disparity is an area of topical interest. In this paper, we consider space as an instrumental variable in understanding this disparity and explore spatial interdependence in human development across districts of West Bengal using alternate indicators of human development. This study uses both the standard United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) technique and an alternative methodology to construct a sub-national human development index. Spatial interdependence is measured using Moran's I coefficient and Local Indicators of Spatial Autocorrelation (LISA) cluster maps. Spatial regression is used to evaluate the spatial association between the Human Development Index as the dependent variable and a few independent variables. A high degree of clustering in all three dimensions of human development is observed among the southern districts of West Bengal. The pattern of cluster maps indicates the presence of both the growth pole process and the metropole-periphery process in the state. Spatial regression results indicate that the share of socially backward class population and urbanization rate are important variables affecting regional human development patterns. The findings of this study suggest policies targeted to promote social inclusion and urbanization linked with better access to economic opportunities in the lagging areas can help reduce regional imbalances.

Nexus of Human Development and Environmental Quality in Low-Income and Developing Countries: Do Renewable Energy and Good Governance Matter?

The relationship between human development and environmental quality has been explored in this study by examining the human-development status and carbon (CO2)-emissions levels of 60 countries from the low, lower-middle, and upper-middle income categories. The roles of renewable energy and some economic and institutional factors such as GDP, the rule of law, regulatory quality, and corruption control have also been investigated to ascertain their impacts on the relationship. The empirical investigations apply the generalized method of moments (GMM), fixed effects (FE), and random effects (RE) methods, and the long-run associations among the variables are investigated by applying the fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS) and dynamic ordinary least squares (DOLS) techniques. The robust findings support the trade-off relationship between human development and environmental quality in the selected low-income and developing countries. With evidence of an environmental Kuznets’s relationship between economic growth and environmental quality, these findings reveal that the measures pursued to improve human-development status have a contributory impact on CO2 emissions in the selected countries. However, an increased demand for renewable energy, effective enforcement of the rule of law, and improved control over corruption have a mitigating effect on CO2 emissions. The result has also highlighted the policy issues instrumental to increased emissions levels in these countries. Consequently, it is recommended to formulate policies for resolving disparities within the various dimensions of human development while also making deliberate investments in the socio-economic aspects of human development to ensure both sustainable human development and environmental quality.

Human development and the quality of financial reporting among the local governments in Indonesia

We investigate whether a local government’s level of human development is associated with its financial reporting quality. We use audit opinions and accruals management to capture financial reporting quality and manually collected data from our sample of 4,254 financial reports of Indonesian local governments from 2010 to 2018. We find that local governments whose citizens have a higher Human Development Index (HDI) and on each dimension of human development are more likely to receive an unqualified audit opinion on their financial reports. However, we find that local governments with a higher development index are more likely to use accruals management through revenue overestimation or expense underestimation in preparing the statement of operations. Our results suggest that employees of higher quality, as indicated by a higher HDI, have a greater ability to follow accounting rules resulting in a cleaner audit opinion. However, they might opportunistically use their judgments in making accounting estimates. Finally, our study contributes to the literature by providing insight into how human development and its dimensions are associated with the quality of financial reporting, especially in the public sector in developing countries.

Economic Globalization and Human Development in Bangladesh

Economic globalization has garnered significant scholarly interest due to its potential to contribute to social stability and economic development. In recent years, there has been a growing emphasis on human development indicators in the context of Bangladesh's economic progress. This research examines the impact of economic globalization on the HDI of Bangladesh, focusing on the indicators of foreign direct investment (FDI), foreign assistance, and personal remittance inflow. Using an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model and fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS) estimates, the research finds that not all globalizing variables have a linear effect on Bangladesh's HDI. The empirical results also suggest that the impact of economic globalization on HDI varies across the different dimensions of human development. Short-term association between foreign assistance is rather high. There is a long-term, positive correlation between FDI and foreign assistance. The research offers some policy recommendations to address the challenges of economic globalization and human development in Bangladesh. These include: Investing in education and healthcare to improve the skills and productivity of the workforce, implementing social safety nets to protect vulnerable groups from the negative effects of globalization, ensuring equitable distribution of resources to ensure that everyone benefits from the benefits of globalization, promoting inclusive growth by supporting small and medium-sized enterprises and creating jobs in the informal sector. The research concludes that a balanced approach to economic globalization is essential to maximize the benefits for human development in Bangladesh.

Food shortage driven crop residue burning and health risk

Ending global hunger is one of the greatest challenges humanity faces. The second Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 2), Zero Hunger, seeks to simultaneously address global environmental sustainability and food security challenges. However, ending hunger and food shortage would lead to the increase of agricultural activities and crop yields, which in turn might rise crop residue biomass burning, leading to adverse environmental and health consequences. This study estimated the health risk using modeled airborne benzo[a]pyrene (BaP), a common indicator of carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) released from crop residue biomass burning, and demonstrated the dependence of incremental lifetime lung cancer risk (ILCR) on the prevalence of undernourishment (PoU). Results showed that 10.4% of the global population are exposed to BaP concentration levels exceeding the EU target value (1 ng/m3) due to crop residue burning. The dependence of ILCR on PoU was attributed to increasing post-harvest crop residue biomass burning consequent to growing crop yield motivated by food shortage. Although global mean ILCR from crop residue burning BaP emission was positively correlated with the mean PoU at a correlation coefficient of r = 0.87 (p < 0.0001), positive and negative associations between PoU and ILCR were found among different less-developed countries. Eighty-nine less-developed countries were clustered into five groups, and the response of each group's ILCR to their respective PoU was assessed, which was interpreted by a human development index (HDI) that measured key dimensions of human development. Results also revealed that sustainable agriculture and implementation of air emission control measures play key roles in the association between hunger and ILCR.

A multidimensional appraisal of domestic investment, external debt and economic development nexus: evidence from SSA

PurposeThis study examines the effect of external debt and domestic capital formation on economic development in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) economies.Design/methodology/approachUsing the Dynamic Common Correlation Effects (DCCE) technique and the Driscoll and Kraay fixed-effect technique, this paper conducts a multidimensional assessment of external debt and domestic investment on economic development across a panel of 35 SSA countries from 1995 to 2018. The data utilized are sourced from the World Development Indicators (2021) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) database (2021).FindingsThe results reveal that domestic investment has a positive impact on economic development in SSA countries, consistent across all three dimensions of the human development index (income, education and life expectancy). However, external debt exhibits an adverse effect on economic development, consistently yielding negative outcomes for life expectancy, education and income.Practical implicationsBased on these findings, the authors recommend that SSA economies implement appropriate policies, such as reducing bureaucratic requirements and addressing corruption, to enhance domestic capital investment. Additionally, efforts should be directed toward channeling contracted debt into productive sectors like road construction and electricity provision.Originality/valueThis study is among the first to assess the impact of domestic investment and external debt on the three dimensions of human development outlined by the UNDP. Furthermore, it employs a robust econometric method that considers cross-sectional dependence (CD).

A State-Level Analysis of Mexican Education and Its Impact on Regional, Economic, and Social Development: Two-Stage Network DEA Approach

Education has been considered a cornerstone for human and economic development. Although there is a national educational strategy in most countries, various implementations are at the state level. This paper studies academic efficiency at the primary and secondary levels and the human development dimensions –long and healthy life, being knowledgeable, and enjoying a decent standard of life– at the state level. For this purpose, a network data envelopment analysis (NDEA) with two stages was proposed. The first stage studies the educational process efficiency, while the second evaluates its impact in the form of the human development index. The study found significant differences between the evaluated states in the education stage, where the lowest efficiencies are mainly in the southwest of Mexico. The results also indicate that better education quality leads to greater regional, economic, and social development at the state level. This study contributes to the NDEA applications on the understanding of the impact that education has in improving the development of the regions holistically.

What Analysts Really Do: Psychoanalysis as a Nonlinear Dynamic System

ABSTRACT Of all current psychologies, psychoanalysis is the most engaged with the complex and chaotic dimensions of human development and suffering – intricate psychic processes, fluxing mental and physical states, unexpected shifts between clarity and confusion, big changes following small inputs, uncertainty about causes and locations – including whose thoughts belong to whom, and more. These crucial elements, however, have not always been taken up explicitly. Nonlinear dynamic systems theory (NLDS) provides an aesthetically pleasing and scientifically current framework for these factors and illuminates established clinical practice and theory. Through clinical examples, conceptual elaboration, and an account of the author’s growing interest in this field, this paper offers a user-friendly invitation to NLDS.

Impact of AI Readiness and E-Participation Implementation of a Government on the Well-being of its Citizens

ABSTRACT: Many governments have failed to achieve the expected benefits of most e-participation projects, even though numerous ICT implementations have been implemented. Many such participatory projects initiated, funded, and deployed by the governments of developing countries and some projects of developed countries have not been able to maintain the positive momentum among the public as planned due to the lack of innovation. E-participation projects can range from providing citizens with important information to engaging citizens in decision-making processes using ICT-based tools and platforms. It can include activities from social media posts to online surveys and e-voting. Artificial Intelligence (AI) based intelligent systems can be used to achieve productivity to reach the expected goals of e-participation projects. Drawing from Technology Mediation Theory, the publicvalue perspective, and the literature on the use of AI in e-participation projects, this study explores the mediating effect of AI readiness of a government on the relationship between e-participation implementations of a nation and the well-being of its citizens. The mediating effect is further explored using three dimensions of human development: education, healthcare, and standard of living. This empirical study was performed using archived data from 72 countries. The results indicate that AI readiness positively influences the relationship between e-participation implementation and its citizens’ well-being. Subsequently, the theoretical and practical contributions and the future direction of this study are detailed in this paper .

Human Development in Districts of India, 2019–2021

This study measures, for the first time, the level of human development across 707 districts of India as they existed at the time of National Family Health Survey 2019–2021 using an alternative index of human development which uses proportions rather than averages to measure progress in the three core dimensions of human development and employs the concept of human development surface to combine the progress in the three dimensions into a single composite index of human development. The alternative human development index addresses some of the problems that are associated with the conventional human development index. District level estimates of the alternative human development index suggest that human development in India is the poorest in district Supaul of Bihar but the most advanced in district Mahe of Puducherry. The study also reveals that in 78 districts of the country, there is a marked difference in progress in the three dimensions of human development and in 231 districts, the progress is below average in all the three dimensions of human development. The study emphasises the need of estimating human development index at the district level at regular intervals to imbibe the sensitiveness to human development in development planning and programming in the country.

Impact of Education on Human Development – Applied Study on Libya (1990-2019)

Education is an important tool for States' development and progress economic, social and political impediments, in addition to promoting the concept of sustainable and inclusive development in various areas ", especially in this era of remarkable development in the educational process, which has produced significant progress in embracing the concepts of sustainability, until education became the deadly weapon in the face of underdevelopment, poverty and ignorance. Education is one of the key pillars of inclusive development in its economic, social and political dimensions which is a key to progress and urbanization for any State in view of its leading role in sustainable development, Since the eighteenth century, economists - Adam Smith, Marx, Marshall and Maltus - have alerted the importance of investing in human capital through education and training But not until the 1950s and 1960s, Several applied studies have confirmed that economic development consists of two main components: The human component, which includes increasing human capacities by raising the level of education and raising the level of health; The material component, which includes increasing economic growth rates, is increasing per capita domestic product, and human capital theory emphasizes the important role that education plays as a key factor in the accumulation of human capital, achieving sustainable development and reducing poverty rates. Based on the importance of the impact of education in general on sustainable development as determined by economic theories and international experiences, this study seeks to analyse the impact of education on human development in Libya. The main problem of this study is to answer the following key question: What is the impact of education on human development in Libya during the period 1990-2019? Theoretically, the study's importance is to illustrate the inability to achieve sustainable development. without human development, education is the main dimension of human development and sustainable development is a necessary requirement for all developed and developing countries, Education is also one of the most important forms of investment in human capital. In addition, the practical importance of this study is to examine the impact of education on Libya's human development. development policies that lead to inclusive development. Drawing on the use of the analytical curriculum to determine the relationship between education and human development at the theoretical level, and analysing this relationship statistically, to test the study's main hypothesis: a statistically significant relationship exists between education and human development in Libya during the study period.

Territorial disparities of the Human Development Index in the North Development Region of the Republic of Moldova

Human development is a component part of the development of socio-economic, natural-geographical systems. Currently, the need for comparative studies of human development appears increasingly imperative, in an attempt to track the level reached by states, regions or urban and rural human habitats within them, with the goal of evaluating the effectiveness of development policies applied by governments or regional and local administrations, beyond certain indicators or statistical series that attest to certain aspects of human development. Through this study, we proposed the calculation of the HDI at the level of human habitats of the North Development Region of the Republic of Moldova, with the expansion of the number of indicators taken into account, compared to the indicators taken into account by the UNDP in the calculation of the HDI of the states. This fact would allow a more accurate radiography of human development at the locality level. The purpose of this study is to estimate and determine the spatial differences of the Human Development Index (HDI) in the localities of the North Development Region in the context of the implementation of the Regional Development Strategy of the Republic of Moldova and the intention of European integration of the country. The main results of the study consist in the creation of a valuable cartographic set with reference to the four dimensions of human development, as well as the map of the aggregate index of human development related to the human habitats of the region, a typology that can serve as a benchmark in the agrumentation of territorial, administrative and financial decentralization which is to be implemented. The main methods used in the study: comparative, statistical, direct standardization, mathematical, the GIS system. The HDI study of the North RD includes 315 urban and rural localities within the region, through four dimensions that attest the level of human development and 12 indicators (values), these being related to the habitats of primary rank: communes and villages of their composition.

Christian-holistic teaching as an instrument to combat reductionism in education

Cultural change and global pluralism are causing an increasing plea for Christian-holistic education. However, this term lacks clear definition based on a proper description of the cultural background that provoked it. A secular definition of holistic education is taken from a worldwide movement for Whole Child Development and compared with the culture-critical thinking of three visionaries from the Christian tradition. This leads to the definition that Christian-holistic education seeks all dimensions of human development, aiming at the heart as the undivided principle of its existence, placing it with pedagogical optimism before God to seek its restoration and longing to serve.

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX OF NIGERIA AND INDIA: AN OVERVIEW OBSERVATION

A long and healthy life, access to knowledge, and a reasonable standard of living are the three fundamental dimensions of human development that the HDI measures in summary form over time. The life expectancy at birth is used to evaluate the health dimension, and the mean number of years spent in school for adults 25 years and older and the anticipated number of years spent in school for young children are used to evaluate the education dimension. Gross national income per person is used to measure the standard of living dimension. The HDI uses the logarithm of income to reflect how income becomes less significant as GNI rises. The three HDI dimension indices' scores are then combined using geometric mean to create a composite index.

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN TURKEY: AN ANALYSIS BASED ON PROVINCES AND REGIONS

Bu çalışmada Türkiye’de iller ve bölgeler bazında insani gelişme seviyesi ölçülmektedir. Bu çalışma aynı zamanda, insani gelişme endeksini Türkiye açısından yeniden ele almakta ve Türkiye özelinde yeni sonuçlar önermektedir. &#x0D; Çalışmada hesaplanan insani gelişme endeksi, UNDP’nin yöntemini temel almaktadır. Bu yönteme göre insani gelişme, eğitim, sağlık ve gelir boyutlarına dayalı olarak dünya genelinde ve her yıl için hesaplamaktadır. Ancak bu yöntemin, Türkiye özelinde sonuçlarının daha iyi yansıtılması için sağlık endeksinin hesaplanmasında bir değişiklik yapılmıştır. Sağlık endeksinin hesaplanmasında ortalama yaşam süresi kullanılmamıştır. Bu değişkenin istatistiksel açıklama gücü düşük çıkmaktadır. Bu değişkene kıyasla, açıklama gücü daha yüksek bulunan bebek ve çocuk ölüm oranları değişkeni kullanılmıştır. &#x0D; Sonuçlara göre 2019 yılında Türkiye’de insani gelişmenin en yüksek olduğu ilk beş il sırasıyla İstanbul, Ankara, Kocaeli, Tekirdağ ve Bilecik’tir. En düşük olduğu iller ise Ağrı, Siirt, Gaziantep, Şanlıurfa ve Van illeridir. İnsani gelişmede elde edilen gelirin sağlık ve eğitim alanlarında kullanılması bir gelişme başarısı olarak değerlendirilmektedir. Bu kritere göre, iller arasında görece en başarılı il Giresun iken en başarısız il Kırşehir’dir.

The Role of Human Development in Improving Local Government Performance Through Good Government Governance

The quality of audit opinion results of local government financial statements in 2015–2020 has increased. Still, non-compliance with laws and corruption cases has increased, indicating that the implementation of Good Government Governance (GGG) has not gone well. This paper provides empirical evidence of the role of human development in realizing GGG and its effect on the performance of local governments in Indonesia. The research was designed as associative quantitative research, an organizational unit of analysis. The total population is the regency and city government in Indonesia, as many as 514 local governments, and the sampling technique is purposive sampling. The qualified samples were 268 local governments, with data observed from 2018 to 2020, or 3 years, so the number was 804. The data was sourced from the Regional Government Implementation Performance Evaluation report. The GGG variables were measured using indices and local government performance variables use scores. The main analysis uses SEM PLS and additional analysis with panel regression. The results showed that GGG had a significant effect on the performance of local governments. Novelty, the dimension of human development can strengthen the GGG variable so that its influence on the performance of local governments is even greater. This research has theoretical, managerial, policy, and practical implications. In addition, the completeness of the research data, which is still lacking in information, is a limitation of this study. Furthermore, recommendations for local governments so that human development receives special attention to increasing competitiveness by increasing the allocation of labor budgets.