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Measuring the immeasurable: The fallacies of quantifying “Human Development”

Taye Negussie(PhD)

With the view to address the weakness of the traditional economic oriented Gross Domestic Product (GDP) measurement that glossed over the human aspect of development, the United Nation Development Program (UNDP) decided to release every year since 1990 an annual report on the state of human development for each member state – the Human Development Index (HDI).

January 2, 2015

World News, Social Affairs

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Ethiopia denies reports about Yemen migrants’ drowning

Foreign Ministry spokesperson denies reports of drowning, saying reports are baseless propaganda.

Ethiopian authorities have denied media reports about the drowning of around 70 Ethiopian migrants off Yemen’s coast.

January 1, 2015

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Ethiopians Seeking Birth Control: Caught Between Church And State

Her head draped with thin white fabric in the Ethiopian Orthodox tradition, Konjit walked to the stately entrance to the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Addis Ababa. But the soft-spoken 26-year-old did not go inside to pray because of her “sin.” Days before, she had had an abortion; she had become pregnant after her birth control failed.

January 1, 2015

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Ethiopia denies reports about Yemen migrants’ drowning

Ethiopians Seeking Birth Control: Caught Between Church And State

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