Human Development Index

help determine the development of a country, of which economic criteria tend to dominate, with indicators such as the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as well as other social and security needs of the people, with the recent Human Development Index (HDI) which measures overall well-being of the people. So, with the recent phenomenon of globalization becoming ever more widespread in our society today, there is no doubt that it has impacts, both positive and negative, on the development of Singapore as

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 ranking 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

impact to the people in Chad, whom are suffering from sicknesses, lack of education and malnourishment. Altogether, building major infrastructural improves the social-economic status (SES) and social security of the country, as well as the Human Development Index

Introduction International development and underdevelopment are major issues in global society today. John Perkins’ book The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is a very critical account on the activities of private corporations such as MAIN and international financial institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund and how many actions are based on self-interest, corruption and greed. The book does an exceptional job at giving us an insider’s perspective on why debt

influence on developments and advancements made within developing countries. International organizations do in fact have a large impact on the developing world, but it is hard to pinpoint how much they have contributed and continue to contribute in the field of development globally. This paper will examine how much impact IGOs and NGOs have by closely examining the humanitarian efforts of the United Nations, as an example of an international organization that addresses peace, stability, development, and

potential in south Africa and also to what extent does it have transformative potential, that is if it has transformative potential. This paper will discuss this by looking at what at what civil society is, looking at development and how ordinary people challenge forced development (top down) by engaging in

Ghana, who was one of the first African countries to undergo reforms under the Provision National Defence Council (PNDC) regime. The human development index is measurement used to assess countries based on three categories: life expectancy, education and gross national income per capita (UNDP, 2014,p. 2). According to the report by the Untied Nations Development Program, Ghana’s HDI value is ranked at 132 out of 187 countries in 2014. In a time period of 33 years from 1980 to 2013, Ghana’s HDI has

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competition for globalization according to the article “How Globalization Affects Developed Countries,” by Nicolas Pologeorgis. Nations that are highly industrialized and developed have a higher level of economic development, their gross domestic product (GDP), industrialized and human development index (HDI) allow for them to meet the socioeconomic criteria that is necessary and well equipped for these nations to participate in globalization. They can produce things that other countries/nations/states need

SP10204: Introduction to International Development Assignment I Modernisation theory Modernisation is the “process of change towards those types of social, economic, and political systems that have developed in Western Europe and North America” (Eisenstadt 1966, p. 1). Modernisation theory is utilised to elucidate the process by which modernisation occurs within societies. Modernisation theory emanated in the 1950s from the ideas of Max Weber, which proffered the basis for the modernisation paradigm