naa a22 4500 510742106 CHVBK 20180411083031.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20131201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11482-012-9208-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11482-012-9208-4 An Index of Progress Towards the MDG1 in Southern Africa and the Horn of Africa [Elektronische Daten] [José Martín, María del Mar Holgado Molina, José Fernández] In this article we present a new proposal for measuring progress towards Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 1 to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, applied to a group of countries particularly affected by poverty in the context of southern Africa and the Horn of Africa. Our index is novel in that it has been constructed taking into account a larger number of variables defined in the UN Millennium Declaration which are generally considered to determine countries' levels of underdevelopment. As technique applied to the data, provided by the UN, we used the P2 distance of Pena method and applied it to the year 2007; the last year for which data are available. This index incorporates variables that permit a ranking of the countries of southern Africa and the Horn of Africa in terms of those partial indicators. To sum up, the objective is to produce a global indicator of fulfilment of the MDG1. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht and The International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS), 2012 Economic development nationallicence Millennium goals nationallicence Poverty nationallicence Synthetic indicators nationallicence Territorial disparities nationallicence Martín José Department of Applied Economics, University of Granada, Granada, Spain aut del Mar Holgado Molina María Department of Spanish and International Economics, University of Granada, Granada, Spain aut Fernández José Department of Spanish and International Economics, University of Granada, Granada, Spain aut Applied Research in Quality of Life Springer Netherlands 8/4(2013-12-01), 467-480 1871-2584 8:4<467 2013 8 11482 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-012-9208-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-012-9208-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Martín José Department of Applied Economics, University of Granada, Granada, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- del Mar Holgado Molina María Department of Spanish and International Economics, University of Granada, Granada, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fernández José Department of Spanish and International Economics, University of Granada, Granada, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Applied Research in Quality of Life Springer Netherlands 8/4(2013-12-01), 467-480 1871-2584 8:4<467 2013 8 11482 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer