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| Ranis, Gustav; Stewart, Frances; Samman, Emma. |
| This paper explores ways of enlarging the measurement and understanding of Human Development (HD) beyond the relatively reductionist Human Development Index. From the extensive literature on well-being, we derived eleven categories of HD. Within each category, we then identified a potential set of indicators which were measurable and reflect performance with respect to that category. In order to reduce the number of indicators representing each category, we included only one for any set highly rank order correlated with each other, as well as including indicators not correlated with any other indicator in that category. Our aim was to retain only indicators which are broadly independent of each other. We subsequently investigated the extent of correlation... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Human development; Quality of life; Comparative country performance; Labor and Human Capital; I31; O15; O57. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28389 |
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| Ranis, Gustav; Stewart, Frances; Samman, Emma. |
| This paper adopts a more expansive definition of Human Development than that encompassed by the Human Development Index in order to explore diverse country patterns of behavior in relation to these broadened dimensions. We proceed by first identifying the dimensions to be investigated and subsequently present the methodology adopted for clarifying country behavior with respect to these dimensions. Countries are shown to differ substantially in terms of their choices among the independent dimensions of well-being which may or may not be constrained by history or culture. We then group countries by level of per capita income, experience with internal conflict, region of the world, oil, wealth, distance from the equator, distance from the sea, in the search... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Human Development; Quality of Life; Happiness; Capabilities; Country Behavior; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; I31; O15; O57. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6877 |
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