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- Title
MEDICIÓN DE LAS DISPARIDADES ENTRE INDICADORES ASOCIADOS AL BIENESTAR SOCIAL EN LOS PAÍSES MENOS ADELANTADOS (PMA) DE ASIA.
- Authors
García, Eduardo Cuenca; Martín, José Antonio Rodríguez
- Abstract
Measuring factors that affect countries' social welfare is a complex task, especially in the case of the Least Developed Countries. Despite this difficulty, important advances have been made, though many more remain to be made in the search for procedures that will enrich these analyses. In this article we present a new proposal for the measurement of disparities between indicators of social welfare, applied to a group of countries especially affected by poverty: the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) which in the terminology of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) are the poorest of the poor. In our analysis we will refer to the Asian continent. Our index is novel in that it has been constructed taking into account a larger number of variables than the welfare indices most usually used, and the criteria defined in the Goals of the Millennium Declaration, which are generally considered to determine countries' levels of underdevelopment As technique applied to the data, provided by the UN and listed in the Annual Report of the LDCs for 2007, the latest year for which definitive data were available, we have used the P2 distance method. This index integrates soclo-economic variables that permit a ranking of the LDCs of Asia, in terms of those partial indicators.
- Subjects
REGIONAL economic disparities; PUBLIC welfare; UNITED Nations Conference on Trade &; Development; ECONOMIC indicators; POVERTY; UNITED Nations; DEVELOPING countries
- Publication
Revista de Economía Mundial, 2010, Issue 25, p83
- ISSN
1576-0162
- Publication type
Article