Violence and Human Development

Human, Environment and Sustainable Development

Human Development and Violence Prevention: A Focus on Youth

Marital Violence, Human Development and Women’s Property Status in India

— If development means the expansion of human capabilities, then freedom from domestic violence should be an integral part of any exercise for evaluating developmental progress. This paper focuses on a hitherto unexplored factor underlying women’s risk of marital violence, namely, women’s property status. Many studies have examined the scale and correlates of marital violence, but neglected thi...

Crime, Violence and Inequitable Development

I thank two anonymous reviewers for useful comments. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the author. They do not necessarily represent the views of the World Bank, its Executive Directors, or the countries they represent.

The relationship between health expenditures and human development index

Growth in gross domestic product does not necessarily mean growth in human development; experience in global level demonstrated that income growth and human development are not always companions and in some countries, an increase in one of them was took place with a decrease in the other. On the other hand, a study has found that as government health expenditures grow the efficiency of such ex...