Human Development Index

identified many factors which contribute to the well-being of a country and among these factors; Foreign Direct Investment is persistently seen. Economists have limited tools to measure well-being; reliance on GDP, GDP per capita, GDP growth rate, Human Development Index (HDI) and other such macroeconomic indicators are often used to measure the well-being of the nation. And it is equally important for the governments and governing bodies to find the factors which can affect these

– including education. Burbules and Torres (2000) suggest that the change in dynamics through globalisation would therefore have a further cause for concern on people involved in the educational endeavour. This essay will look at international development past and present and will discuss the crucial role education plays within this with

protagonists live. Overall, China has a relatively high Human Development Index (HDI) ranking of 90 out of 188 countries ("Human Development Report"). This ranking is reflective of the major development that has occurred in China throughout the last few decades, but the country's almost mid-tier position is indicative of necessary progress that has yet to take place. To explore this topic a little more, one aspect of the HDI, the Multidimensional Poverty Index, captures China’s level of poverty at 5.2 percent

companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology. This process has effects on the environment, on culture, on political systems, on economic development and prosperity, and on human physical well-being in societies around the world. Globalization is not new, though. For thousands of years, people—and, later, corporations—have been buying from and selling to each other in lands at great distances, such as through

brain structure, and hormonal differences (Gendered Lives, 2005). (1) Niger is currently ranked at 187 in the United Nation Human Development Index. Niger has a total land area of 490,000 square miles or 1,267,000 square kilometers. Niger ended 2014 with a population of 19,113,728 people, which represents an increase of 754,865 people compared to 2013, and the population index has yet to be updated to present date and time of 2016. French is the official language of Niger. Hausa is spoken by seventy

Economic development refers to the sustained actions of communities, federal, state, and local governments that improve our standard of living through the creation of jobs, new technologies, economic health, and the creation of an overall better quality of life. The comparison between the Australian economy and the Chinese economy provide a detailed and comprehensive view of both nations. China is of political, cultural and economic strategic importance to Australia. Economic growth, employment/unemployment

which might limit economic development in the developing countries. Economic development can be defined generally as involving an improvement in economic welfare, measured using a variety of indices, such as the Human Development Index (HDI). A developing country is described as a nation with a lower standard of living, underdeveloped industrial base, and a low HDI relative to other countries. There are several factors which may have the effect of limiting economic development in such countries. Factors

AFFORDABLE CARE ACT I strongly favor the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) clause that allows people under the age of 26 years to depend on their parents’ health insurance. Since the implementation of the ACA in 2010, more than 3 million people in this age group have decided to stay on their family’s health plan. The ACA, also known as ObamaCare, was signed by President Barack Obama on March 23rd, 2010 with a vision to provide affordable health care to uninsured people and increase the fairness of treatment

traditions, political institutions, levels of economic development, as well as government policies. However, there is more to consider in this argument since corruption is also prominent in countries with histories of British rule, protestant traditions, and less economic development. During the past three decades, there has been a remarkable expansion in the people’s ability to measure the level of corruption. As a result, this has led to the development of ell-identified, microeconomic of corruption at

a multilateral agreement which was made to address desertification. Desertification is defined as “the land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas, generally known as ‘drylands’ ”. Many African states believed their sustainable development was being obstructed due to issues such as poverty, and food insecurity and were not being given necessary attention by the international political community . The need for an international convention was based on the argument that although the