Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2020 by Mateus de Almeida Prado Sampaio, Jose Raimundo Sousa Ribeiro Junior

“…We analyse the performance of each country (delegations) in terms of 1) the overall score obtained; 2) comparison with its previous performance (Rio 2016); 3) relationship between the number of medals and the number of athletes sent; 4) relationship between the number of medals and the total population and 5) relationship between obtaining Olympic points and the respective HDI (Human Development Index).We conclude that access to the greatest material (and immaterial) wealth in dispute, symbolized by the Olympic gold medal, is spatially distributed across the globe in concentrated (Map 1), hermetic (Map 2), competitive (Map 4), unequal (Map 5) and unfair (Map 6) ways.…”
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Interactions between key genes and pathways in prostate cancer progression and therapy resistance by Fan Wu, Hengsen Zhang, Miaomiao Hao

“…Prostate cancer is one of the most prevalent malignant tumors in men, particularly in regions with a high Human Development Index. While the long-term survival rate for localized prostate cancer is relatively high, the mortality rate remains significantly elevated once the disease progresses to advanced stages, even with various intensive treatment modalities. …”
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Financial inclusion and human development in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU): the role of institutional quality by Hamidou Ouedraogo, Noël Thiombiano

“…The results using the Newey-West standard error method reveal that financial inclusion positively affects the human development index. The results also show that institutional quality amplifies the positive effect of financial inclusion on human development. …”
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Impact of constituent development fund allocations on the performance of South Sulawesi provincial library and archives office by Moh Ilham A Hamudy, Mutiara Lulu Annisa, M S Rifki

“…The budget uptake was inhibited, impacting on the execution of strategic programs that correlate to an increase in the human development index.…”
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THE EFFECT OF TRADE OPENNESS ON POVERTY IN NIGERIA by Benedict Azu, Onyemaechi Ugboh

“…Measures of poverty used for this study were per capita income and human development index. Consequently, two autoregressive models were specified and estimated in order to examine the effect of trade openness on these two measures of poverty. …”
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Correlation of human development and economic growth of the national economy by Đorđević Vladimir, Cvetković Milica, Momčilović Aleksandar

“…Long-term economic growth determines the standard of living, which directly affects human development. The Human Development Index sublimates several parameters in itself and at the same time shows correlations between the economy, quality of life, and level of education in the country. …”
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Renda Per Capita não monetária: proposta metodológica aplicada à Comunidade Quilombola do Mandira by José Mariano Caccia Gouveia, Jurandyr Luciano Sanches Ross

“…In order to measure and evaluate the degree of economic development, several indices have been developed and, among those universally used, the most relevant are: GDP - Gross Domestic Product, GNP - Gross National Product, HDI - Human Development Index and PCI - Per Capita Income. The latter deserves special attention once it is an isolated indicator, accounts for one third of the values ​​obtained for the HDI, nearly all GDP of the communities, in addition to being an indicator of the economic dimension of tools to measure sustainability. …”
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Shedding light on development: Leveraging the new nightlights data to measure economic progress. by Prachi Jhamb, Susana Ferreira, Patrick Stephens, Mekala Sundaram, Jonathan Wilson

“…., the household Wealth Index published by Demographic and Health Surveys, and 2) indicators derived from administrative records such as the gridded Human Development Index and Gross Domestic Product per capita. …”
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FINANCIAL INCLUSION, INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY, AND POVERTY REDUCTION IN NIGERIA by Rashidat Sumbola Akande, Hauwah K. K. AbdulKareem, Aminat Olayinka Olohunlana

“…The paper is anchored on the Capability Approach and adopts the Human Development Index (HDI) as a proxy for poverty reduction as it measures basic human capabilities. …”
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Does educational quality drive ecological performance? Case of high and low developed countries by V. Koziuk, O.V. Dluhopolskyi, Y. Hayda, Y. Klapkiv

“…The significant correlation was found between the education index and the ecological conditions in countries with a very high, medium and low level of Human Development Index. The significant correlation between the processes of implementation of educational and science public policy and a set of environment’s criteria was found. …”
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Determinants of poverty and income inequality on the islands of Sumatra and Java by Candra Mustika, Rahma Nurjanah, Sylvia Kartika Wulan

“…The purpose of this study was to determine and analyze the comparison of poverty and inequality levels on the islands of Sumatra and Java and to analyze the effect of the human development index (HDI), gross regional domestic product (GRDP), the level of open unemployment (TPT) and total population on poverty and income distribution inequality in Sumatra and Java. …”
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Influencing Factors and Clustering Characteristics of COVID-19: A Global Analysis by Tianlong Zheng, Chunli Zhang, Yueting Shi, Debao Chen, Sheng Liu

“…Results showed that the extreme random forest regression (ERFR) model had the best performance, and factors such as population density, ozone, median age, life expectancy, and Human Development Index (HDI) were relatively influential on the spread and diffusion of COVID-19 in the ERFR model. …”
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Municipal public spending in environmental management: efficiency and determinants by Vanderléia de Souza da Silva, Johan Hendrik Poker Junior, Marco Antonio Milani Filho, Ieda Kanashiro Makiya, Denise Rugani Topke

“…The determinants of efficiency were: the overall municipal human development index; the percentages of people: with piped water and installed toilets, those with higher education above 25 years old, and the poor. …”
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Balancing act: Europeans' privacy calculus and security concerns in online CSAM detection by Răzvan Rughiniş, Simona-Nicoleta Vulpe, Dinu Ţurcanu, Daniel Rosner

“…Notably, the Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) shows a positive association with privacy concerns in regression models when controlling for Augmented Human Development Index (AHDI) components, contrasting its negative bivariate correlation. …”
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RENEWABLE ENERGY CONSUMPTION AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT by Aliona Balan

“…The analysis, spanning from 1995 to 2021, employs econometric techniques, including Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) and Two-Stage Least Squares (2SLS) regression, to investigate the impact of renewable energy on the Human Development Index (HDI). The findings reveal a positive correlation between renewable energy consumption and HDI, indicating that increased adoption of renewable energy is associated with improvements in human development. …”
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A scalability-centric perspective on global human development within environmental limits by Soumyajit Bhar, Chirag Dhara

“…The Human Development Index (HDI) positions Global North countries as development benchmarks, overlooking their high environmental footprints. …”
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How Escaping the Middle-Income Trap: Key Factors for Indonesia's Growth? by Feny Marissa, Abdul Bashir, Alghifari Mahdi Igamo, Dwi Darma Puspita Sari, Deassy Apriani, Ichsan Hamidi

“… This study investigates the complex interplay between human development index, foreign direct investment, and investment efficiency in driving economic growth. …”
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Long-term trends in the socio-economic development of Arab countries by V. A. Meliantsev

“…With all the considerable differentiation that exists between Arab countries in the 1980-2010s, in contrast to a number of other countries and regions of the East and South, the Arab world on the whole has suffered from a significant slowdown in the dynamics of per capita GDP, total factor productivity, human development index and augmented development index.These trends, according to the author’s calculations, are determined not only and not so much by high population growth rates, but by the limited nature of economic and institutional reforms that affect the degree of diversification of production and export structures, share of investments in physical and human capital in GDP, and the quality of labor. …”
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Comparison of Perceived Achievement of Complex Thinking Competency Among American, European, and Asian University Students by José Carlos Vázquez-Parra, Jenny Paola Lis-Gutiérrez, Linda Carolina Henao-Rodriguez, Carlos Enrique George-Reyes, Claudia Lorena Tramon-Pregnan, Susana Del Río-Urenda, Ma Esther B. Chio, Rasikh Tariq

“…It was found that (i) there is no statistically significant difference by gender; (ii) there are statistically significant differences in all types of thinking per country, geographical area (continent), and Human Development Index (HDI).…”
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Estimation level of public welfare on the basis of methods of intellectual analysis by S. Kozlovskyi, L. Nikolenko, O. Peresada, O. Pokhyliuk, O. Yatchuk, N. Bolgarova, O. Kulhanik

“…Input factors of the model are international indices and indicators, such as Index of Economic Freedom, Global Peace Index, Democracy Index, Corruption Perceptions Index, Human Development Index, Prosperity Index, Global Competitiveness Index as well as an indicator that reflects the characteristic property of the Ukrainian economy, namely the minimum living wage. …”
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