BetaBetaDataset
To assist in the country selection process for the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) by providing indicators of natural resource protection and child health that complement the governance, social, and economic indicators used by MCC in country selection.
The Natural Resource Protection and Child Health Indicators, 2015 Release, are produced in support of the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation as selection criteria for funding eligibility. These indicators are successors to the Natural Resource Management Index (NRMI), which was produced from 2006 to 2011 and was based on the same underlying data.
This dataset entails child health indicators, water, sanitation, natural resource protection and country code.
An indicator construction exercise — combining empirical data sources on child health, water/sanitation, protected areas, biomes, etc., to produce composite country-level indices