Search results for "Human Development"
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Olfaction and adaptive behavior in early human development
2010
Latvia. Human Development Report 2008/2009. Accountability and Responsibility
2009
Accountability and Responsibility. The objetive of the 2008/2009 Human Development Report was to examine different levels of accountability and the specific way in which accountability is manifested in Latvia at individual, coolective, and institutional levels which come together to form an accountability "network". The Report also compares the situation in Latvia with that in the other Baltic States, the European Union, and elsewhere in the world.
Global Cognitive Functioning versus Controlled Functioning throughout the Stages of Development
2020
According to the All or None Hypothesis (Diamond, 2009), the cognitive system can operate in a global manner that is not very discriminate or in a more discriminate mode that demands greater precision, control, and cognitive effort. There are five corollaries to this hypothesis that describe, in an operative way, the conditions under which the controlled mode of functioning in the cognitive domain can be activated and thus tested. Given the impact this theory has generated and the absence of studies analyzing the corollaries in a collective and systematic way at different stages of development, this study was proposed, first of all, to test three of these corollaries in children, adolescent…
Positive human development: A spontaneous or guided process? Policy lessons from 45 years of longitudinal research in Finland
2014
Analysis of needs from the Human Scale Development Theory: the case of two vulnerable neighbourhoods of Valencian Region (Spain)
2019
Este artículo deriva del trabajo que, en el marco del Máster de Cooperación Internacional al Desarrollo de la Universitat de València (España), fue realizado en el año 2018 por Glòria Maria Caravantes López de Lerma y dirigido por el Dr. Albert Mora Castro, del Departamento de Sociología y Antropología de la citada Universidad.
Cultural Heritage and Development: a look at the 2030 Agenda and the role of heritage.
2020
En la Agenda 2030 difícilmente vamos a ubicar referencias a la cultura, y aún menos al patrimonio cultural. En su redacción, los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) dejan poco margen a la cultura y al patrimonio como medio humano para alcanzar esos objetivos. Este artículo analiza la presencia y ausencia del patrimonio en los ODS aprobados en 2015 y nos presenta cómo muchas de sus metas se lograrían más eficazmente si se tiene en consideración esta dimensión intrínsecamente humana de participar, generar y abastecerse de cultura, además de ver cómo, si nos centramos en el patrimonio desde un enfoque en derechos, identificaremos caminos que puedan más fácilmente favorecer la consecución …
The Low Dimensionality of Development
2020
AbstractThe World Bank routinely publishes over 1500 “World Development Indicators” to track the socioeconomic development at the country level. A range of indices has been proposed to interpret this information. For instance, the “Human Development Index” was designed to specifically capture development in terms of life expectancy, education, and standard of living. However, the general question which independent dimensions are essential to capture all aspects of development still remains open. Using a nonlinear dimensionality reduction approach we aim to extract the core dimensions of development in a highly efficient way. We find that more than 90% of variance in the WDIs can be represen…
Trying to control migration between zones in the world
2019
It is a fact that migration is a worrying problem in some world areas. Literature shows many studies about it. Nevertheless, no sound solutions have been proposed. Assuming that the key implied factors are development and demography, we suggest in this research, as a first step, to state a stochastic and dynamic demographic model neither considering sexes nor ages, but including the necessary and adequate economic, education and health variables. This model will be able to optimize, by means of a genetic algorithm, the amount and proportion of the main development indicators in different areas of the world along time, in order to reach the desired values of the population present in each ar…
PEMODELAN GEOGRAPHICALLY WEIGHTED REGRESSION (GWR) PADA PERSENTASE KRIMINALITAS DI PROVINSI JAWA TIMUR TAHUN 2017
2020
Crime is everything that exists in Indonesia. Based on BPS data in 2018, East Java Province ranks first in the Province of North Sumatra and the Special Capital Region of Jakarta. This research was conducted to determine the factors that support crime in each Regency / City of East Java Province. The method used in this research is Weighted Geographic Regression (GWR). Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) is one of the statistical methods used to model variable responses with regional or area-based predictor variables. Based on the GWR results, it is recognized as a variable Population Density Percentage (X1), Open Unemployment Rate (X2), Poor Population (X3), Population who are Victims…
Assessing the Beneficial Effects of Economic Growth: The Harmonic Growth Index
2011
In this paper we introduce the multidimensional notion of harmonic growth as a situation of diffused well-being associated to an increase of per capita GDP. We say that a country experienced a harmonic growth if during the observed period all the key indicators, proxies of the endogenous and exogenous forces driving population well-being, show a significantly common pattern with the income dynamics. The notion is operationalized via an index of time series harmony which follows the functional data analysis approach. This Harmonic Growth Index (HGI) is based on comparisons between the coefficients from cubic B-splines interpolation. Such indices are then synthesized in order to provide the g…