Human Opportunity Index - Provinces : Equality of Children's Opportunities in Pakistan

This paper complements the World Bank's recent report on poverty by providing some additional information on inequality. In contrast to reports that analyze measures of inequality of income or wealth (such as the Gini), this paper focuses on equality of opportunities of children, where opportunities refer to access to basic services and goods (access to education, health conditions and basic infrastructure) that improve the likelihood of children to maximize their human potential. It introduces a new metric to Pakistan, the Human Opportunities Index (HOI), that combines the overall coverage rate of the opportunity with a penalty for the share of access to opportunities that are distributed in an unequal fashion. The Human Opportunity Index was developed recently at the World Bank and has been estimated now for over 20 countries in Latin America and Africa.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Newman, John
Format:	Working Paper biblioteca
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012-06
Subjects:	ACCESS TO EDUCATION, ACCOUNTABILITY, ACCOUNTING, ADEQUATE PRENATAL CARE, AGED, ANTENATAL CARE, BASIC EDUCATION, BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE, BASIC SERVICES, BIRTH ATTENDANT, BIRTH ATTENDANTS, CITIZENS, CLUSTER SURVEYS, COMPLETION RATES, CONFIDENCE, CULTURAL PRACTICES, DEMAND FOR EDUCATION, DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, DEVELOPMENT POLICY, ECONOMIC GROWTH, ECONOMIC STATUS, EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES, ENROLLMENT OF CHILDREN, ENROLLMENT RATE, EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES, EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY, EXERCISES, FAMILIES, FEMALE EDUCATION, GENDER, GENDER DISCRIMINATION, GENDER EQUALITY, HEALTH CARE, HEALTH INDICATORS, HEALTH SYSTEM, HEALTH WORKERS, HOUSEHOLD SIZE, HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS, HUMAN POTENTIAL, IMMUNIZATION, IMMUNIZATIONS, KIDS, LABOR FORCE, LIVING STANDARDS, MIGRATION, MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, MOTHER, NATIONAL GOVERNMENT, NATIONAL LEVEL, NUMBER OF CHILDREN, NURSE, NURSES, NUTRITION, PENALTIES, PENALTY, POLICY DISCUSSIONS, POLICY MAKERS, POLICY RESEARCH, POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER, POPULATION STUDIES, POSTNATAL CARE, PREGNANCY, PRIMARY COMPLETION, PRIMARY COMPLETION RATES, PRIMARY EDUCATION, PRIMARY SCHOOL, PRIMARY SCHOOL COMPLETION, PRIMARY SCHOOL ENROLLMENT, PRINCIPLE OF EQUALITY, PRIVATE SCHOOLING, PRIVATE SCHOOLS, PROGRESS, PUBLIC EXPENDITURE, PUBLIC FUNDS, PUBLIC SERVICES, QUALITY OF EDUCATION, RESPECT, RURAL AREAS, SANITATION, SECONDARY EDUCATION, SECONDARY SCHOOL, SERVICE QUALITY, SKILLED BIRTH ATTENDANTS, SOCIAL ACTION, SOCIAL SCIENCE, SOCIAL SECTORS, TRADITIONAL BIRTH ATTENDANT, TRADITIONAL BIRTH ATTENDANTS, UNIVERSAL ACCESS, WORKERS,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/06/19309502/human-opportunity-index-hoi-provinces-equality-childrens-opportunities-pakistanbr http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17884
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