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The Features of Development in the Pacific Countries of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group

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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.

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  1. UNCTAD: TD/B/259.

  2. This has occurred in the variables: Proportion of tuberculosis cases detected and cured under DOTS (Directly Observed Treatment Short Course); Proportion of population using an improved drinking water source; Proportion of population using an improved sanitation facility; average life expectancy at birth; total food supply; electricity consumption and the indicators of education, whose available information is from 2006, while for the Proportion of births attended by skilled health personnel we use that existing in 2004.

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  1. Eduardo Cuenca García, José Antonio Rodríguez Martín & Margarita Navarro Pabsdorf

    Present address: Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Campus de Cartuja s/n, 18071, Granada, Spain

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  1. Departamento de Economía Internacional y Española, Jean Monnet Chair of Economic Integration, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain

    Eduardo Cuenca García

  2. Departamento de Economía Aplicada, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain

    José Antonio Rodríguez Martín

  3. Departamento de Economía Internacional y de España, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain

    Margarita Navarro Pabsdorf

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Cuenca García, E., Rodríguez Martín, J.A. & Navarro Pabsdorf, M. The Features of Development in the Pacific Countries of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group. Soc Indic Res 99, 469–485 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-010-9594-7

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