The experience from the Millennium Development Goals has shown that well-defined, objectively measurable indicators can help to maintain focus on internationally agreed development goals and targets, ...

This paper provides an overview on the interlinkage between Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) achievement and Least Developed Country (LDC) graduation, by examining the relationship between the ...

The Human Development Index, published each year by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), is the world's most famous indicator of the level of development of societies. It shows for almost ...

In this study, we used the weighted principal component analysis to measure and analyze the progress of human development in Chinese provinces since 1990. The trends of the human development in the ...

WASHINGTON, April 19, 2012 — The 2012 edition of World Development Indicators (WDI), released today, includes updated data on global development, the quality of people's lives, the environment, the ...

Besides economic development, other equally important indicators of national development include infrastructural development, healthcare, education, environmental sanitation, household food security ...