Essays on Human Development Index

Introduction When we are speaking of whether a country is well developed or not, Human Development Index (HDI) is always be mentioned while Human Poverty Index (HPI) rarely appears in papers. As a matter of fact, this two indexes should be measured together but not...

Relationship between the Human Development Index of countries and the Age Standardized Death Rate caused by Cardiovascular Diseases. Background Information Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are non communicable diseases within a class of diseases that include the heart or blood vessels (WHO, 2010). A few of the...

Gross Domestic Product (GDP), as defined by Callen (2017) is a quantitative measure of a country’s economic production in a period of a year. Information of how a country is performing economically can be found through the calculation of its GDP as it is achieved...

The African country that will form the basis of this paper is Kenya. Kenya is a major regional player in east Africa commanding a significantly higher gross domestic product than any other country in east Africa. Despite a steady growth in the country’s economy, there...