Dynamics in human development: Partial mobility and "jump" / Atanu Sengupta and Abhijit Ghosh.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Sengupta, Atanu, author.

Contributor:

Ghosh, Abhijit.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic and Social Development.

Local Subjects:

Economic and Social Development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (30 pages)

Contained In:

Asia-Pacific Development Journal Vol. 20, no. 1, p. 33-62 20:1<33 2411-9873

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2013.

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Summary:

Development economists have argued that interesting dynamics exist in the intergroup movement of countries in terms of several development parameters. However, standard mobility measures are aggregative in nature. They do not study intergroup variation in mobility. In an earlier paper, we have introduced the concept of partial mobility for analysing the movement of a particular group. In this paper, the degree to which the group has progressed (or declined) from its current position is measured. It is argued that any movement is not sufficient to enhance (or worsen) a group's welfare. There is a perceived threshold, and any movement above that threshold may be defined as "jump". The focus of this paper is jumps, not just mobility. Jump is characterized with a set of axioms. The analysis of global data reveals that the poor countries fail to cross a threshold level, although there may be some limited movement within a narrow limit.

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