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International Human Development Indicators
Written by Mario Wiedemann
The International Human Development Indicators have a couple of natural disaster indicators to incorporate with other metrics. Read more
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Internet Access. A Human Right
Written by Kosta Grammatis
Over five billion people do not have internet access, ahumanright.org plans to change that. Kosta Grammatis explains why the internet is important in the first place. As of 2009, 83% of the world is literate, and another 80% has access to electricity, these two factors are all that is required […]
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Curse or Blessing? Natural Resources and Human Development
Written by Mario Wiedemann
This paper argues against a natural resource curse for human development. We find evidence that changes in human development from 1970 to 2005, proxied by changes in the Human Development Index, are positively and significantly correlated with natural resource abundance. While our results are consistent with those of other authors […]
