scholarly journals HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: A KEY DRIVER OF SOCIOECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN EU

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria - Daniela Tudorache
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
Key Driver

Credibility Trap: Japan today and China tomorrow

2006 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-50
Author(s):  
Kensei Hiwaki ◽  
Junie Tong
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Normative Framework ◽  
Specific Culture ◽  
Prevention And Cure ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient

This article provides a theoretical framework for a long-term socioeconomic lethargy (Credibility Trap) that results from the liquidation of holistic society-specific culture. As for example, it deals with the cases of Japan today and China tomorrow, elaborating on the slight of their respective society-specific cultures in a century-long process of “modernization”. The present theoretical framework primarily consists of three pivotal concepts, viz., Credibility Trap, society-specific cultures (Cultures) and market fundamentalism (Market), which facilitates a clear, concise and effective argument that the liquidation of their respective holistic Cultures may intimately relate to their actual and potential socioeconomic lethargy. Also, the present article concentrates on the elaboration of some promising avenues for prevention and cure of Credibility Trap. Such avenues comprise the necessary and sufficient conditions for a balanced socioeconomic development; a theoretical framework for a perpetual “virtuous” circle among cultural enrichment, comprehensive human development and balanced socioeconomic development; and a normative framework of multi-faceted value enhancement for vitality augmentation and cultural enrichment within a society.

scholarly journals Human development, greenhouse gas emissions and sub-national mitigation burdens: a Brazilian perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Geanderson Ambrósio ◽  
Dênis Antônio Da Cunha ◽  
Marcel Viana Pires ◽  
Luis Costa ◽  
Raiza Moniz Faria ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
National Level ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
Ghg Mitigation ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
National Human ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Equivalent

AbstractInternational frameworks for greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation usually disregard country-specific inequalities for the allocation of mitigation burdens. This may hinder low developed regions in a country from achieving development in a socioeconomic perspective, such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of eradicating poverty (SDG1) and hunger (SDG2). We use observed data (1991–2010) of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2eq) emissions and a sub-national human development index (MicroHDI, range [0, 1]) for Brazilian microregions to design a framework where regional mitigation burdens are proportional to the MicroHDI, without compromising national mitigation pledges. According to our results, the less developed Brazilian regions have not been basing their development in emission-intensive activities; instead, the most developed regions have. Between 2011 and 2050, Brazilian cumulative emissions from the sectors most correlated with MicroHDI are expected to be 325 Gt CO2eq, of which only 50 Gt are associated with regions of MicroHDI < 0.8. Assuming a national GHG mitigation target of 56.5% in 2050 over 2010 (consistent with limiting global warming to 2 ºC), Brazil would emit 190 Gt CO2eq instead of 325 Gt and the 135 Gt reduction is only accounted for by regions after reaching MicroHDI ≥ 0.8. Allocating environmental restrictions to the high-developed regions leaves ground for the least developed ones to pursue development with fewer restrictions. Our heterogeneous framework represents a fairer allocation of mitigation burdens which could be implemented under the concepts of green economy. This work could be an international reference for addressing both environmental and socioeconomic development in developing countries at sub-national level as emphasized by the SDGs.

Living in a Changing World

2019 ◽  
pp. 786-818 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huajian Cai ◽  
Zihang Huang ◽  
Yiming Jing
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Dynamic Process ◽  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
Social Indicators ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
Human Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
External Forces

Abstract: Over recent decades, massive socioeconomic development and accelerated globalization have led to substantial changes in human culture and psychology. In this chapter, the authors identify a general trend of human cultural change around the globe: individualism has been increasing whereas collectivism has been decreasing. This trend is manifested in diverse social indicators, cultural products, daily practices, and various domains of psychology including cognition, personality, attitudes and values, and human development. Cultural change, however, is not linear. Economic depression as well as other external forces such as disaster and pandemic may interfere with it; some aspects of cultural heritage may also endure over the course of modernization, and multicultural societies are burgeoning around the world. Our review highlights that culture is not a static construct but a dynamic process. Future studies may extend the content and scope of our current research, explore processes and mechanisms underlying cultural change, and examine how individuals, organizations, and governments cope with this change.

scholarly journals The Influence of Culture in Customers’ Expectations about the Hotel Service in Latin Countries with Different Human Development Levels

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-73
Author(s):  
Mara Franco ◽  
Raquel Meneses
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Cultural Patterns ◽  
Process Definition ◽  
Hotel Service ◽  
Development Levels ◽  
Hotel Managers

AbstractDue to their dynamic nature and importance in the service process definition, customers’ expectations have gained attention from researchers and practitioners, and have been essentially focused in developed countries from the Northern Hemisphere. Still, countries, regardless of the hemisphere, have different levels of socioeconomic development and cultural patterns that can have different influence on customers’ expectations about a service. In this sense, the main purpose of this research is to understand if culture equally influences customers’ expectations about a service in countries with different cultural patterns and human development levels. The multigroup analysis using structural equation modelling was used to calculate the regression weights for all the path combinations in the analysis for each proposed group of countries. About 1262 customers from 10 Latin countries were enrolled in this study to determine their expectations about the hotel service and cultural dimensions. Findings show that cultural dimensions influence customers’ expectations about the hotel service differently in groups of countries with different cultural patterns and levels of human development. Results also indicate that hotel managers should adapt the service to the level of human development of each group of countries when it comes to internationalisation.

scholarly journals Regional Development in Advanced Countries: a Within-Country Application of the Human Development Index for Austria

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lukas Schrott ◽  
Martin Gächter ◽  
Engelbert Theurl
Keyword(s):  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Human Development Index ◽  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Substantial Part ◽  
Development Index ◽  
Country Level ◽  
Cross Country

Abstract Since its implementation in 1990, the human development index (HDI), the flagship indicator of multidimensional development, has attracted a great deal of attention and critics in academic, political and media circles. It initiated a new stage in the discussion of appropriate indicators to measure socioeconomic development. Until now, the vast majority of empirical work using the HDI concept has taken a cross-country perspective. The main aim of this paper is the application of the HDI at the sub-country level in small, highly developed and socioeconomically homogenous countries. For this undertaking we use a slightly modified version of the HDI, called the regional development index (RDI). For the components of the RDI - life expectancy, education and standard of living - we use recent cross section information for Austria at the level of districts. There exists considerable heterogeneity across districts in the RDI and its components. Our Theil-decomposition reveals that the overwhelming part of the observed heterogeneity is based on differences within provinces (96 percent), although the differences in life expectancy between the provinces explain a substantial part of the overall heterogeneity in this indicator (54 percent).

scholarly journals Can Nighttime Satellite Imagery Inform Our Understanding of Education Inequality?

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 843 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bingxin Qi ◽  
Xuantong Wang ◽  
Paul Sutton
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
Population Distribution ◽  
Growth Models ◽  
Linear Growth Rate ◽  
Multiple Time ◽  
Latent Growth ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Education Inequality ◽  
Development Levels

Education is a human right, and equal access to education is important for achieving sustainable development. Measuring socioeconomic development, especially the changes to education inequality, can help educators, practitioners, and policymakers with decision- and policy-making. This article presents an approach that combines population distribution, human settlements, and nighttime light (NTL) data to assess and explore development and education inequality trajectories at national levels across multiple time periods using latent growth models (LGMs). Results show that countries and regions with initially low human development levels tend to have higher levels of associated education inequality and uneven distribution of urban population. Additionally, the initial status of human development can be used to explain the linear growth rate of education inequality, but the association between trajectories becomes less significant as time increases.

scholarly journals Human development and international migration: Lessons from low- and middle-income countries

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 8-23
Author(s):  
Leonie Decrinis
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Development Strategies ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Source Countries ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Low And Middle Income

This paper analyses the relationship between human development and migration. In particular, it tests whether migration, as a function of human development, follows an inverted U-shaped curve, known as mobility transition. Understanding this relationship is important since many Western politicians have implemented socioeconomic development strategies in migrant source countries with the aim to reduce migration. Considering that previous studies have mainly concentrated on the economic factors of development, this study introduces the broader human development index, determined by income, health and education, as the main explanatory variable. Analysing the rate of migration from 111 low- and middle-income countries into the aggregate of 15 OECD countries between 2000 and 2010, the study finds strong support for the inverted U-shaped relationship between human development and migration. This indicates that development strategies aimed at reducing migration are misguided

scholarly journals BRINGING ROHINGYA REFUGEES OFF-TRACK OF LONG-TERM ECONOMIC VULNERABILITY IN BANGLADESH

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Ferdinand Moses ◽  
Shandralingam Kengatharan
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Host Country ◽  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
Local Population ◽  
International Aid ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Economic Vulnerability ◽  
National Competition

The ethnic Rohingya is experiencing not only marginalization and statelessness in Myanmar but also facing brutal oppression, violence perpetrated by some in the ethnic majority for many decades. Bangladesh has long been a major Rohingya refugees hosting country and currently, it hosts around 600,000 refugees. Beside recently arrived refugees, there are thousands of refugees, who have been staying in Bangladesh for around three decades as registered or unregistered refugees. Long-term refugees, as per many reports, have been heavily relying on international aid, amid their poor socioeconomic development in Bangladesh. The development of Rohingya refugees is analyzed in this paper from the dimensions of Bangladesh, as a host country; poor human development of Rohingya refugees, and the wider international community. National competition for limited availability of resources and opportunities in Bangladesh; poor human development of Rohingya refugees, make them prolong dependents for refugee handouts. To obtain sustainable development of Rohingya population in Bangladesh, this paper proposes an appeal to international producers to make them financially sound by offering employment opportunities by establishing production plants in Bangladesh. In addition, to avoid hostilities with the local population, equal composition of refugees and the local population is suggested in employee recruitments.Keywords: Rohingya, Myanmar, Bangladesh, refugees, economic developmentCite as: Joseph, F.M & Shandralingam, K. (2018). Bringing Rohingya refugees off-track of long-term economic vulnerability in Bangladesh. Journal of Nusantara Studies, 3(1), 42-50.http://dx.doi.org/10.24200/jonus.vol3iss1pp42-50

Human Development, Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sub-National Mitigation Burdens: A Brazilian Perspective

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geanderson Ambrósio ◽  
Dênis Antônio Da Cunha ◽  
Marcel Viana Pires ◽  
Luis Costa ◽  
Raiza Moniz Faria ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
National Level ◽  
Ghg Mitigation ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
National Human ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Equivalent ◽  
Country Specific

Abstract International frameworks for greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation usually disregard country-specific inequalities for the allocation of mitigation burdens. This may hinder low developed regions in a country from achieving development in a socioeconomic perspective, such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of eradicating poverty (SDG1) and hunger (SDG2). We use observed data (1991-2010) of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2eq) emissions and a sub-national human development index (MicroHDI, range [0, 1]) for Brazilian microregions to design a framework where regional mitigation burdens are proportional to the MicroHDI, without compromising national mitigation pledges. According to our results, the less developed Brazilian regions have not been basing their development in emission-intensive activities; instead, the most developed regions have. Between 2011 and 2050, Brazilian cumulative emissions from the sectors most correlated with MicroHDI are expected to be 325 Gt CO2eq, of which only 50 Gt are associated with regions of MicroHDI < 0.8. Assuming a national GHG mitigation target of 56.5% in 2050 over 2010 (consistent with limiting global warming to 2ºC), Brazil would emit 190Gt CO2eq instead of 325Gt and the 135 Gt reduction is only accounted for by regions after reaching MicroHDI ≥ 0.8. Allocating environmental restrictions to the high-developed regions leaves ground for the least developed ones to pursue development with fewer restrictions. Our heterogeneous framework represents a fairer allocation of mitigation burdens and could be an international reference for addressing both environmental and socioeconomic development in developing countries at sub-national level as emphasized by the SDGs.

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