Measuring Progress Towards MDGs in Child Health: Should Base Line Sensitivity and Inequity Matter?
Published By: Centre for Development Studies (CDS) on eSS | Published Date: January , 2016Measurement of achievement or progress towards the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) should be suggestive of the issues involved
in intertemporal comparison. Commonly, we observe that the
measurement techniques such as simple differentials, rates and ratios
are employed for comparisons and interpretations. But such chosen
measures are insensitive to two very important and fundamental concerns.
Firstly, such measures are not differentially sensitive to the base level of
the indicator against which comparisons are made to comment on the
progress or achievement. Secondly, it is observed that in most of the
progress assessments and comparisons, without exception, the focus is
on population averages thus ignoring the inherent inequalities therein.
To incorporate these two concerns, a method is proposed and an
illustrative application is provided to review the MDG achievements in
child health across 32 developing countries. The adopted technique is
effective for comparison and interpretation of progress and achievement
as it augments the principles of equity as well as base-level sensitivity
Author(s): Udaya S. Mishra | Posted on: May 03, 2016 | Views() | Download (458)