ДИФФЕРЕНЦИАЦИЯ УРОВНЯ ЧЕЛОВЕЧЕСКОГО РАЗВИТИЯ В СТРАНАХ МИРА И ИХ РЕГИОНАХ

• Authors: Selivanova-Fyodorova Natalya , Komarova Vera , Vasserman Yuriy , Tutaeva Dinara

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DIFFERENTIATION OF THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT LEVEL IN COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD AND THEIR REGIONS

• Languages of publication: RU EN

Abstracts

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The main research issue within the framework of this article is the following: what happens to human development in countries of the world and their regions which are beyond the average indicators, and why it happens this way but not the other? The authors have tried to answer this question with the help of combining the diachronic and synchronic analyses of the Human Development Index’s growth and state of differentiation in the world countries in the period 1990-2017, as well as the Historical Index’s of Human Development growth and state of differentiation in the world countries in the period 1870ñ2015, and the Sub-national Human Development Index’s growth and state of differentiation in the internal regions of the EU member countries (with the emphasis on Latvia), and the USA (for comparison) in the period 1990-2017. The novelty of the research lies in the analysis of the differentiation of the human development level in countries of the world and their regions with the help of three indices using a common methodological approach. This kind of parallel analysis allows the authors carrying out a more systematic study into peculiarities of a social and economic phenomenon of human development both in the modern world and in the 150-year old historical perspective. The research outcomes showed that: the average human development level is steadily growing, and in the modern world it dramatically exceeds the average HDI which was achieved 150 years ago; the state of differentiation of the human development level in the world is gradually decreasing over the last 150 years; the HDI distribution in the world countries at each time point of the period under study starting from the second half of the 20th century corresponded to the Gauss curve; in the modern world, the level of human development has a normal distribution on sub-national level too (for instance, between internal regions of the EU countries), and metropolitan areas are almost always the leaders of human development; in Latvia, despite the constant increase in the human development level on average in the country and in its regions, the distribution of the HDI itself between Latvia’s internal regions remains normal, which is also typical for internal regions of the United States. The reported study was funded by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) according to the research project 18-011-00548.

Keywords

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human development; differentiation; state of differentiation; Human Development Index (HDI); normal distribution

• Publisher: Daugavpils University, Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Journal: Sociālo Zinātņu Vēstnesis
• Year: 2018
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 73-102

Contributors

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Selivanova-Fyodorova Natalya

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Komarova Vera

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Vasserman Yuriy

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Tutaeva Dinara

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1691-1881