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A Development of the Human Development Index

Social Indicators Research, 2019
This paper presents a variant human development index H. It resembles the human development index HDI, published annually since 1990 by the United Nations Development Programme, but it is calibrated to reflect ‘development’ as evident in the actual progression of life expectancy, education and income shown over 1990–2017 by the people of the world as a
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Renewable energy consumption, economic growth and human development index in Pakistan: Evidence form simultaneous equation model

Journal of Cleaner Production, 2018
Zhaohua Wang, Danish, Bin Zhang
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Constructing composite indicators with Shannon entropy: The case of Human Development Index

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2020
In this paper, we propose a weighting scheme for constructing composite indicators based on Shannon entropy. Its main advantages are that it delivers a set of common weights across decision-making units that allow for complete comparison and ranking and ...
Roxani Karagiannis, G. Karagiannis
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Status of Human Development Index

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
What is the need for Human Development? This research paper seeks to research the reasons for the emergence of the concept of Human Development. ‘Human development is a process of enlarging people’s choices’ (HDRO, 1990). The Human Development approach insists that the fundamental aim of development policy should be to expand the opportunities that ...
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A new approach based on BWM and MULTIMOORA methods for calculating semi-human development index: An application for provinces of Iran

, 2020
Human Development Index (HDI) is a useful tool for policy makers to understand the degree of development in their societies and set new policies to improve it.
Hashem Omrani, A. Alizadeh, Mohaddeseh Amini   +2 more
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The dynamics of Human Development Index

The Social Science Journal, 2015
Abstract In criticizing the nature of the Human Development Index, this paper proposes a different way of constructing the HDI in terms of capturing the pure flow of human development in the areas of material well-being, health, and education. Our comparison of the HDIF and the HDI shows that measuring human development with flow variables provides a
Jack Hou, Patrick Paul Walsh, Jing Zhang
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Corruption and Human Development Index

2019
Corruption is a human phenomenon that covers the whole world. It is a fact that public corruption gains more prominence than private corruption, because the state has the duty of accountability in a transparent way to taxpayers. As a result of this, the authors focus on the analysis of public corruption, which involves agents and public resources of ...
Olívia Maria Cardoso Gomes, Mara Karinne Lopes Veriato Barros   +1 more
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Spatial characteristics and influential mechanism of the coupling coordination degree of urban accessibility and human development index in China

Environmental science and pollution research international, 2022
Yaxing Li, Sheng Wu, Bojie Yan
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Nexus between Human Development Index (HDI) and CO2 emissions in a developing country: decoupling study evidence from Bangladesh

Environmental science and pollution research international, 2021
M. Hossain, Songsheng Chen
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Global cancer transitions according to the Human Development Index (2008-2030): a population-based study.

The Lancet Oncology, 2012
F. Bray, A. Jemal, N. Grey, J. Ferlay, D. Forman   +4 more
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