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Indicators of Development

For this homework activity, you will find and compare indicators of development (measures of development) for your four selected countries. Compile your table and written discussion into a single document (Save as a PDF file type), and submit via the “Week 8 HW (Development)” assignment in Canvas.

Below are 15 different indicators of development; most were discussed in class or in the textbook.  Create a table with these indicators for all four of your selected countries. You can find all of them at the United Nations: Global Human Development Indicators website http://hdr.undp.org/en/countries.

Then, in a brief paragraph or two, discuss the differences/similarities of these indicators across your four countries. Do you see interesting patterns, or any unexpected outcomes?  If relevant, you can discuss these findings in relation to items you compiled in previous weeks.

Indicators to compile:

Human Development

  • Human Development Index (HDI)
  • Rank, Human Development Index
  • Gross national income (GNI) per capita (2011 PPP $)
  • Life expectancy at birth (years)
  • Expected years of schooling (years)
  • Expected years of schooling, female (years)

Inequality

  • Inequality-adjusted HDI (IHDI)
  • Income inequality, Gini coefficient
  • Population living below income poverty line, PPP $1.90 a day (%)

Gender

  • Gender Development Index (GDI)
  • Gender Inequality Index (GII)
  • Adolescent birth rate (births per 1,000 women ages 15-19)
  • Share of seats in parliament (% held by women)
  • Labour force participation rate (% ages 15 and older), female

Other

  • CO2 (carbon dioxide) emissions, per capita
 
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