The human development index: A portrait of the 75 districts in Nepal

Thapa, Shyam

doi:10.18356/0c212f86-en

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“…While KRB is full of natural resources [41], Human Poverty Indices of districts in KRB are the most impoverished in Nepal [49] and people do have very low adaptive capacity [50]. This region is suffering from the chronic food deficits [51] and, at the same time, some parts are highly exposed to natural disasters, like landslides [28,51].…”

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Hydro-Climatic Variability in the Karnali River Basin of Nepal Himalaya

Khatiwada

Panthi²,

Shrestha

et al. 2016

Climate

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Abstract:Global climate change has local implications. Focusing on datasets from the topographicallychallenging Karnali river basin in Western Nepal, this research provides an overview of hydro-climatic parameters that have been observed during 1981-2012. The spatial and temporal variability of temperature and precipitation were analyzed in the basin considering the seven available climate stations and 20 precipitation stations distributed in the basin. The non-parametric Mann-Kendall test and Sen's method were used to study the trends in climate data. Results show that the average precipitation in the basin is heterogeneous, and more of the stations trend are decreasing. The precipitation shows decreasing trend by 4.91 mm/year, i.e., around 10% on average. Though the increasing trends were observed in both minimum and maximum temperature, maximum temperature trend is higher than the minimum temperature and the maximum temperature trend during the pre-monsoon season is significantly higher (0.08˝C/year). River discharge and precipitation observations were analyzed to understand the rainfall-runoff relationship. The peak discharge (August) is found to be a month late than the peak precipitation (July) over the basin. Although the annual precipitation in most of the stations shows a decreasing trend, there is constant river discharge during the period 1981-2010.

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Section: Temperaturementioning

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Hydro-Climatic Variability in the Karnali River Basin of Nepal Himalaya

Khatiwada

Panthi²,

Shrestha

et al. 2016

Climate

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“…Consequently, large disparities had existed in key dimensions of development. 7 In the past 10 to 15 years, however, more attention to the disparity has been given in policies and program development. The government and donors have begun prioritizing development investment particularly in the Mid-western and Far-western regions of the country.…”

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Women’s Awareness of Liberalization of Abortion Law and Knowledge of Place for Obtaining Services in Nepal

Thapa

Sharma²

2012

Asia Pac J Public Health

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In Nepal, following the liberalization of the abortion law, expansion and scaling up of services proceeded in parallel with efforts to create awareness of the legalization status of abortion and provide women with information about where services are available. This article assesses the effectiveness of these programmatic interventions in the early years of the country's abortion program. Data from a 2006 national survey are analyzed with 2 outcome measures-awareness of the legal status of abortion and knowledge of places to obtain abortion services among women ages 15 to 44 years. The variations in the outcomes are analyzed by ecological-development subregion, residence, education, household wealth quintile, age, and number of living children. Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression techniques are used. Overall 32.3% (95% confidence interval = 31.4% to 33.2%) of the respondents were aware of the legal status of abortion and 56.5% (95% confidence interval = 55.5% to 57.4%) knew of a place where they could obtain an abortion. Both outcome measures showed considerable variations by the covariates. Women with secondary or higher level of education had the highest odds ratio of being aware of the law and having knowledge of a source for abortion services. Ecological-development subregions showed the second highest levels of odds ratios. Significant disparities among the population subgroups existed in the diffusion of awareness of the legal status of abortion and having knowledge of a place for abortion services in Nepal. The results point to which population subgroups to focus on and also serve as a baseline for assessing future progress in the diffusion process.

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“…Given that the HDI can be viewed, albeit simplistically, as a measure of "quality of life" then it may at first glance be surprising as to why local versions of the HDI don"t exist within the UK. After all, there are local versions of the HDI in the USA (Agostini and Richardson, 1997) and other countries (Thapa, 1995). It is not so much that data (income, life expectancy, education) to calculate a local HDI would not be available but that other measures are preferred, such as the Townsend Index and the Index of Multiple Deprivation, which have components that are more suited to the UK.…”

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Attracting Attention for the Cause. The Reporting of Three Indices in the UK National Press

Morse

2010

Soc Indic Res

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Indicators and indices (a collection of indicators into a single value) have been promoted for some time as convenient devices for the presentation of complex datasets to a more general audience. Examples of indices are the Corruption Perception Index (CPI), Human Development Index (HDI) and Ecological Footprint (EF). The research reported in this paper was designed to explore the extent to which the CPI, HDI and EF have been reported in UK national newspapers between January 1990 and December 2009, and whether there are differences between the indices in the pattern of reporting. Results suggest that reporting of the CPI was linked to the timing of reports issued by Transparency International. The same was partly true of reporting of the HDI and timing of release of Human Development Reports by the UNDP. The EF has more reports than the CPI and HDI, and this is related in part to its greater flexibility and adaptability at more local (intra-UK) scales. The paper recommends that those creating such indices look beyond the methodological dimension and consider how best to make the index resonate with the media. by the UNDP. The EF has more reports than the CPI and HDI, and this is related in part to its greater flexibility and adaptability at more local (intra-UK) scales. The paper recommends that those creating such indices look beyond the methodological dimension and consider how best to make the index resonate with the media.

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The human development index: A portrait of the 75 districts in Nepal

Cited by 24 publications

References 26 publications

Hydro-Climatic Variability in the Karnali River Basin of Nepal Himalaya

Hydro-Climatic Variability in the Karnali River Basin of Nepal Himalaya

Women’s Awareness of Liberalization of Abortion Law and Knowledge of Place for Obtaining Services in Nepal

Attracting Attention for the Cause. The Reporting of Three Indices in the UK National Press

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