The Features of Development in the Pacific Countries of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group
Publication Name:
Social Indicators Research
Volume, number, page:
99: 3, pp.469-485.
Year of Publication:
2010
Publisher:
Springer Science & Business Media
City:
Dordrecht
Web Page:
Country of Publication:
Netherlands
Full Date:
2010
ISBN or ISSN:
03038300
Category:
Academic articles
Theme:
Subregion - European Union
BIREGIONAL RELATIONS UE - LAC
Strategic Partnerships
Government
Academic
Keyword(s):
Social research
Economic developmet
European Union
Caribbean and Pacific group
Africa
Development indicators
Measurement
Synthetic indicators
Territorial disparities
ACP
Development Co-operation
Social affairs
Development Policy
Developing countries research
Empirical social research
Research techniques
Research techniques
Abstract:
In this article we present a new proposal for the measurement of development, applied to the Pacific Countries of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group (ACP), conditional on their insularity, and with privileged relations with the European Union. Our index has been constructed attending to the criteria defined in the Goals of the Millennium Declaration. For this purpose we will use the P2 distance method for the year 2007, the last year for which data are available. This index integrates socio-economic variables that permit a territorial ordering of the Pacific ACPs, in terms of those partial indicators.