Sentence examples for measures of development from inspiring English sources

But neither of these is included in prominent measures of development such as the MDGs.

Traditional indicators of sustainable development are focused on economic, environmental and social measures of development.

As the world searches for better measures of development than gross domestic product (GDP), counting dead babies remains an important indicator.

The study found that children raised by lesbian mothers scored similarly to children raised by heterosexual parents on measures of development and social behaviour.

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.

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 it is not an infallible measure of development impact and intent.

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.

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