Racing ahead or lagging behind? Territorial cohesion in human development around the globe
This paper investigates whether global improvements in human development involve subnational regions in a territorially cohesive way. We use a subnational human development index for 1778 regions within 163 countries over three decades, and propose measures for relative over- and under-performance....
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:271441 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/271441 https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1080/00343404.2022.2038785 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Human development Inequality Regional disparities Territorial cohesion |
| Sumario: | This paper investigates whether global improvements in human development involve subnational regions in a territorially cohesive way. We use a subnational human development index for 1778 regions within 163 countries over three decades, and propose measures for relative over- and under-performance. We find that frequently observed reductions of within-country inequality are not necessarily accompanied by reductions in under- and over-performance. Moreover, from a global perspective, we detect the presence of a non-negligible set of under-developing subnational regions spanning across 30+ countries that fail to catch-up with the world average human development. |
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