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Unpacking The 2013 Human Development Index
23 May 2013 | debate, dev index, global index, hdi, south-south, undpThe UNDP claims ‘the Rise of the South’ is having a significant impact on economic growth and societal change. In a notable challenge to the gloom of recession in the West and all the continuing and...
HANCI Index Video l Al Jazeera’s report on the new Hunger and Nutrition Commitment Index
23 May 2013 | agriculture, food crisis, global index, nutritionAl Jazeera’s Inside Story programme reports on IDS’s new Hunger and Nutrition Commitment Index (HANCI). Research findings from HANCI show that low income countries like Malawi and Madagascar and...
2013 Index | Changes to the Aid Transparency Index for 2013 - Outline on the revised methodology
23 May 2013 | aid, global index, indicators, methodology, transparencyRecognising changes in the global environment since the Busan High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, and the significant progress donors have made in increasing their aid transparency, this year will...
Launch l Oil, Gas and Minerals for the Public Good: The Revenue Watch 2013 Resource Governance Index
15 May 2013 | extractive, global index, natural resource management, transparencyToday, Revenue Watch Institute is releasing the 2013 Revenue Governance Index. Trillions of dollars in resources lie buried in the backyards of many of the world’s poorest citizens. Oil, gas and...
Vacancy - Call for Experts: Web Index 2013
03 April 2013 | call for applications, global index, governance, internet, vacancyGlobal Integrity is embarking on a partnership with the World Wide Web Foundation to prepare the 2013 Web Index. The Web Index is the first multi-dimensional measure of the Web’s use, utility and...
Democracy Index 2013 l Global democracy at a standstill
02 April 2013 | annual report, democracy, expert assessment, global index, public opinionGlobal democracy has neither advanced nor retreated substantially in the past year, according to The Economist Intelligence Unit's 2012 democracy index, which was published on March 20th. Among the...
Press release l 70% of governments fail to protect against corruption in the defence sector
01 February 2013 | corruption, defence industry, global indexLondon, 29 January 2013 – Seventy per cent of countries leave the door open to waste and security threats as they lack the tools to prevent corruption in the defence sector, according to the...
Release l Press Freedom Index 2013
01 February 2013 | global index, media, press freedom, releaseThe new 2013 PRESS FREEDOM INDEX is now available. Finland, the Netherlands and Norway have distinguished themselves as countries that most respect media freedom. Turkmenistan, North Korea and...
Blogpost I Missing Pieces: The Year in Indexes
30 January 2013 | blogpost, democracy, development, economic dev, global indexCharles Landow draws highlights from a range of indices on democracy and development, namely; Freedom in the World, BTI's Transformation Index, Heritage Foundation Index of Economic Freedom, World...
Launch l The Global Financial Inclusion (Global Findex) Microdata
14 December 2012 | cross-country, financial inclusion, global index, open dataIt’s raining data. Financial inclusion data, that is. The Development Research Group has published the complete micro dataset of the Global Financial Inclusion (Global Findex) dataset on the Open...