Many factors determine whether a country's passport is weak or strong, from stability to civilian quality of life. Here are ...

Every year, the United Nations releases the Human Development Index. The HDI is like a country’s report card. In a single number, it tells policymakers and citizens how well a country is doing. This ...

Bhutan achieved a significant milestone in 2023 by climbing to the 125th position out of 193 countries in the Global Human Development Index (HDI), according to the United Nations Development ...

Bahrain secures third rank among Arab nations in the 2025 UN Human Development Report. Globally, Bahrain holds 38th position with an HDI score of 0.899. The report highlights Bahrain's progress in ...

This research uses panel data to explore inferences about human development associated with two different formulations of the Human Development Index (HDI). The first is the standard HDI as computed ...

Social and Economic Studies, Vol. 62, No. 3/4, Grenada: Revolution, Invasion and Beyond (September/December 2013), pp. 155-181 (27 pages) This paper examines the usefulness of the Human Development ...

We generally think of Venezuela as being an economic basket case. It's just, for example, been added to the--near--official database of hyperinflations, where prices rise by more than 50% a month for ...

Researchers have introduced a new, simple measure for human wellbeing across countries, called the Human Life Indicator (HLI), that takes inequality into account and could replace the commonly used ...