Global human development: Accounting for its regional disparities

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-34

  Smith, Robert B ^a  

^a Social Structural Research Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Causality; Civil disorder; Clashes of civilizations; Corruption; Democracy; Human development index; Multilevel statistical models; National debt; Slavery; Substantive and instrumental freedoms

Indexed keywords

EID: 57849152130     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: 15737845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-007-9155-6     Document Type: Article

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