Sentence examples for measure of development from inspiring English sources
He's built some bridges, but our measure of development is potable water.
The money, $10 million in a community preservation fund to buy environmentally significant land from willing sellers, is itself a measure of development in the town.
Northern Nigerians lag behind their southern counterparts on almost every measure of development, even though poverty blights the whole country.
While pro-growth strategies can and have reduced inequality in the past – Peru is a good example of this – low wages should not be a measure of development success.
The demographic dividend isn't everythingThe annual Human Development Report of the UN Development Programme usually matters because it provides a broader measure of development than the ones based on gross domestic product (GDP).
For years, as sectarian violence roiled and raged across southern Iraq, the autonomous region of Kurdistan in the north was held up as the exemplar for the benighted country, a place where peace had brought stability and a measure of development.
The abbreviated holiday week brought with it a full measure of developments in the moral quandary in which the press has found itself since Donald Trump became a candidate, and, more acutely, since he won the Presidency, three weeks ago.
But neither of these is included in prominent measures of development such as the MDGs.
As the world searches for better measures of development than gross domestic product (GDP), counting dead babies remains an important indicator.
This shows that widely used measures of development such as the MDGs and the HDI are, by themselves, insufficient to determine development priorities: much greater attention needs to be played to inequality, but not only inequality of income.
But 50 years later, Ghana remains among the poorest nations of the world, while Malaysia is far ahead of it in many measures of development, including per capita income, life expectancy, literacy and school enrollment.
