Dimensions Of Progress Research Articles

Measuring women's empowerment in developing countries: A systematic review

AbstractMeasurement of women's empowerment has grown over the last few decades, but major challenges still exist for measuring progress in dimensions based on different situational and cultural contexts. This study used a systematic review method to identify quantitative literature related to measures of women's empowerment in developing countries. Features of 17 studies were summarized and compared applying bivariate and text analysis. The most applied dimensions of women's empowerment were household decision making, financial and economic decision making, freedom of movement, self‐esteem, and sexual and reproductive decision making. The results of the study contribute to expanding indicators of women's empowerment in developing countries.

Empirics of Human Development in India,1990–2015

This article uses the annual estimates of the human development index (HDI) prepared by the Global Data Lab of the Radboud University of The Netherlands to analyse the progress of human development in India during 1990–2015. The analysis reveals that human development in the country remains comparatively low by global standards and there are considerable variations in human development across states/union territories, although there is evidence of convergence in human development across states/union territories. The decomposition of the improvement in the HDI indicates that the progress in human development in the country has primarily been the result of the progress in the education dimension whereas the contribution of the progress in the dimension of health or well-being has been the smallest. The article calls for redesigning the National Sample Survey to generate data necessary for the estimation of the HDI on an annual basis at national and state/union territory level.

Developing the Educational Milestones for Ophthalmology

A key dimension of the Next Accreditation System is the educational Milestones. Assessment of resident performance on Ophthalmology Milestones will allow programs to offer enhanced feedback to their trainees on progress in dimensions of performance relevant to the unsupervised practice in the specialty. Aggregated to the program level, the Milestones will be 1 indicator of the educational effectiveness of residency programs, moving the focus of resident education from process to outcomes.