Angola ranks as 148 out of 187 countries on the Human Development index.
Human Development Index and Electricity ConsumptionRoughly 400 million Indians remain without access to power.
The HDI Tree aggregates data in the Human Development Index graphically instead of numerically.
On the United Nations Development Programme's human-development index, Nepal comes 140th out of 177 countries.
At least as important as the human development index is the impact of all this on climate change.
The UN's 2006 Human Development Index placed Guatemala last in Spanish-speaking Latin America, below Honduras, Bolivia and Nicaragua.
On the UN Development Programme's human-development index, a general measure of wellbeing, Turkey comes below Russia, Albania and Romania.
Indeed, the United Nations has developed a measure of quality of life called the Human Development Index ( UN HDI).
UN's latest human development index (see article), all are in Africa and half have been battered by wars or coups in the past decade.
Though it is still near the bottom of the UN's human-development index, it is ranked quite high for governance and freedom, coming 18th out of Africa's 53 countries.
Where there is widespread poverty, it is also much easier to find out higher level of illiteracy and a shorter life expectancy, to refer to the key elements of the Human Development Index.
In this context, the development of the Holistic Early Childhood Development Index (HECDI) was first proposed at the World Conference on ECCE organized by UNESCO in September 2010 in cooperation with the Russian Federation.
When countries were classified in 1990 by their status in the United Nations Human Development Index (an index of income, literacy and health), high-development countries achieved robust and stable economic growth during 1990-98, with average growth rates of around 2.3% a year and with 35 out of 36 countries enjoying rising living standards.
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But in the long run, if CRSP and FTSE prove they are up to snuff, the sheen will come off index development.
"The company plans to capitalize on two of the most important trends in asset management: the growth of indexing and the emergence of ETFs as the preferred vehicle for investing in index funds, " Steinberg was quoted in a press release announcing the funding for his new firm, then called Index Development Partners.
Any further weakening of the dollar index would be a bullish development for the precious metals.
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According to the 2002 Silicon Valley Index survey by Joint Venture, a regional development body, the area was awarded more than 6, 800 patents over the past year.
Amy Shea, EVP Global Director of Brand Development, will reveal findings from our 2012 Digital Platform Engagement Index.
While online advertising growth continues, there are significant benefits of scale in advertising platform economics, in capital costs for search index build-out, and in research and development, making this a time of industry consolidation and convergence.
At Index Ventures, we have modelled the early stage development process (up to proof of clinical concept) on the presumption that the majority of the risk in a discovery programme is not only unknown but it also unknowable (ahead of testing in man).
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That index measures factors like licensing, philanthropy, research and development and pricing by company, offering companies the opportunity to benchmark their responsibility efforts against those of their competitors.
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The U.S. dollar index did rally following the FOMC statement, which was a bearish development for the precious metals.
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The Index also showed that although fuel-cell technologies remained the hottest of the hot spots in cleantech IP development, solar technologies received more attention than wind power in terms of overall patenting activity in 2010.
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