...Ranjan Dash; Deepa Gupta; Aditi Mishra Purpose Human development is critical for fostering economic growth and development. Given the importance of human development, this study examines the asymmetric impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on human development by decomposing total FDI...

...Aomar Ibourk; Soukaina Raoui Purpose This paper deals with the spatial impact of cooperative entrepreneurship on territorial human development in Morocco. Within the background of the new development model in Morocco, this study aims to explore how the social and solidarity economy (SSE) through...

... model for 57 developing nations. The panel estimation procedure was applied to data covering 2002 to 2017, disaggregated by non-renewable and renewable resources and low and medium human development countries. Findings The results provide strong evidence that wealth from total natural resources has...

...Belay Seyoum Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of state fragility on select indicators of human development and identify aspects of state fragility that have the greatest impact on poverty reduction and sustainable development. The paper also explores the impact of social...

...Chong Siew Huay; Jonathan Winterton; Yasmin Bani; Bolaji Tunde Matemilola Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of remittances on human development in developing countries using panel data from 1980 to 2014 and to address the critical question of whether the increasing trend...

...Richardson Kojo Edeme; Chigozie Nelson Nkalu; Innocent A. Ifelunini Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop and apply a distributional impact assessment methodology to empirically analyze distributional impact of public expenditure on human development using data from 20 states in Nigeria...

...Necati Aydin Purpose Given the fact that the Islamic economic paradigm differs from the secular capitalist paradigm in terms of its emphasis on morality and spirituality, the author thinks that the current Human Development Index (HDI) does not capture human development from an Islamic perspective...

... 06 2016 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Human development Development expenditure Non-development expenditure Social development index Social indicators Social sector Social development is a multidimensional...

...Olusegun Ayodele Akanbi Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of migration on economic growth and human development in selected Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Design/methodology/approach The estimations were carried out in a panel of 19 selected SSA countries over...

... Sustainability Social economy Entrepreneurship Management Human development Luc de Brabandere makes a distinction between innovation and creativity. Innovation is to change reality. It requires action by a team, is continuous, takes a long time, and delivers something new to the system. Its impact...

... 2016 Emerald Group Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Welfare Human capabilities Marxism Human development Social justice Well-being There are several citations from Karl Marx’s works scattered across Amartya Sen’s writings. In this paper I am chiefly concerned...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Gender Education Family Human development Intergenerational transmission The concept of intergenerational transmission has constantly been in the front line of discussion among social scientists. The phenomenal work of Galton (1869) proved...

... a lot of ridicule. As a college drop out, I started serving our community as a tutor. […] In the year 1999, when the decision was made to handover the project to the sex-workers, I was unanimously elected to run the program as Project Director. Gender Developing countries NGOs Feminism Human...

...Madhu Sehrawat; A.K. Giri Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between financial development indicators and human development in India using annual data from 1980-2012. Design/methodology/approach – The Ng-Perron unit root test is used to check for the order...

... in the chosen sample data. Social capital Human development Human capabilities Development Developing countries Malnutrition Dr Soumyananda Dinda can be contacted at: sdinda2000@yahoo.co.in © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 The Equation (7) contains two additional terms...

... advances the Post-2015 MDG Development Agenda suggested during the United Nations MDG Summit in 2010 which called for academic contributions on how MDGs can be realized even after 2015. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Development Developing countries Human development Community Well...

... to gather information on remittances motivation and the perceived impact of these remittances from the sender's perspective. The paper highlights the significant remittance contributions of US-based Guyanese and their net private flows to Guyana. Development Developing countries Governance Human...

... Poverty Human development Fiji Although Fiji has experienced a steady rise in the Human Development Index (HDI), which integrates income, access to education, health services and gender equality, during the period 1975 (0.663) to 2004 (0.758), poverty has increased at the same time. The rate...

...Desi Peneva; Rati Ram Purpose The purpose of this research is to study the relation between “restrictiveness” of a country's trade policy and its socio‐economic well‐being as reflected in the indicators of human development. Design/methodology/approach A recently‐developed trade...

... and condemned by another; and there would be needed some more general principle, as umpire between them (O'Neill et al., 2008, p. 72). China Social change Economic theory Market Value Wealth Economic philosophy/theory Human development However, what is the essence of market and its...