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A Household-Based Human Development Index [PDF]
World Development, 2012 One of the most serious weaknesses of the human development index (HDI) is that it does not take into account the distribution of human development within a country. All attempts to capture inequality in the HDI have used aggregate information and there exists no HDI at the household level.
Kenneth Harttgen, Stephan Klasen
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Human development index as a measure of human development [PDF]
Filozofija i Društvo, 2011 Human development is “a process of expanding the real freedoms that people enjoy” (Sen 1999: 3). Therefore, widening of people’s choices should be the goal of the public policies aiming at human development promotion.
Radovanović Bojana
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A Perceived Human Development Index [PDF]
, 2016 This paper builds a Perceived Human Development Index (PHDI) by assembling HDI components, namely indicators on income, health and education on a subjective version using the Gallup World Poll microdata. We study how perceptions on individual’s satisfaction are related to their objective counterparts.
Neri, Marcelo Cortes
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A Human Development Index by Income Groups [PDF]
World Development, 2008 Summary One of the most frequent critiques of the HDI is that it does not take into account inequality within countries. We suggest a methodology which allows to compute the three components and the overall HDI for quintiles of the income distribution.
Misselhorn, Mark +3 more
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A Human Development Index by Internal Migrational Status [PDF]
Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2011 Domestic migration constitutes the largest flow of people in developing countries and is among the most important opportunities for people to improve their human development. We calculate the Human Development Index by internal migrational status to assess the differences between the levels of human development of internal migrants compared with non ...
Harttgen, Kenneth, Klasen, Stephan
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The Human Development Index: suggested corrections
PSL Quarterly Review, 2013 Full substitutability and equal weighting principles of the human development index (HDI) have been found to be ineffective in determining appropriate HDI values and should therefore be dropped.
P. PALAZZI, A. LAURI
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Human Development Index: A Non-Compensatory Assessment
Cuadernos de Economía, 2009 El Índice de Desarrollo Humano es un indicador sintético basado en tres dimensiones esenciales: longevidad,<br />educación y nivel de vida. En este trabajo se adopta una perspectiva no-compensatoria que considera que la<br />privación de ...
Gutiérrez Ester, Lozano Sebastián
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Indonesian Journal of Social and Environmental IssuesEnvironmental quality in Indonesia remains under sustained pressure due to ongoing deforestation, resource-intensive economic growth, and persistent regional development disparities. This study analyzes the influence of the Human Development Index (HDI),
Rajib Wahyu Nugroho +2 more
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On A Class of Human Development Index Measures [PDF]
, 2008 Using Minkowski distance function we propose a class of Human Development Index measures. Special cases of this turn out to be the popularly used linear average method as also a newly proposed displaced ideal method. Two measures of penalty are suggested.
Srijit Mishra, Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan
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Happiness and the Human Development Index: Australia Is Not a Paradox [PDF]
The Australian Economic Review, 2006 The authors of ‘Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia’ claim that Australia ranks highly in the Human Development Index (HDI), but relatively poorly in happiness. But when Andrew Leigh and Justin Wolfers compare that happiness data with the HDI, Australia appears happier, not sadder, than its HDI score would predict. Their
Leigh, Andrew, Wolfers, Justin
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