Publication Name
Social Indicators Research
Volume, number, page
99: 3, pp.469-485.
Year of Publication
2010
Publisher
Springer Science & Business Media
City
Dordrecht
Country of Publication
Netherlands
Full Date
2010
ISBN or ISSN
03038300
Category
Academic articles
Theme
Subregion - European Union
BIREGIONAL RELATIONS UE - LAC
Strategic Partnerships
Government
Academic
Keyword(s)
Social research
Economic developmet
European Union
Caribbean and Pacific group
Africa
Development indicators
Measurement
Synthetic indicators
Territorial disparities
ACP
Development Co-operation
Social affairs
Development Policy
Developing countries research
Empirical social research
Research techniques
Research techniques
Abstract
In this article we present a new proposal for the measurement of development, applied to the Pacific Countries of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group (ACP), conditional on their insularity, and with privileged relations with the European Union. Our index has been constructed attending to the criteria defined in the Goals of the Millennium Declaration. For this purpose we will use the P2 distance method for the year 2007, the last year for which data are available. This index integrates socio-economic variables that permit a territorial ordering of the Pacific ACPs, in terms of those partial indicators.