This research uses panel data to explore inferences about human development associated with two different formulations of the Human Development Index (HDI). The first is the standard HDI as computed ...

States like Kerala and Himachal Pradesh, which have high scores in traditional HDI and are praised for their success, show some of the largest gaps once quality factors are taken into consideration ...

Every year, the United Nations releases the Human Development Index. The HDI is like a country’s report card. In a single number, it tells policymakers and citizens how well a country is doing. This ...

Africa’s development landscape exhibits significant variation across its 54 nations. While no African country meets ...

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a summary measure of average achievement in key dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, being knowledgeable and having a decent standard of ...

Researchers have introduced a new, simple measure for human wellbeing across countries, called the Human Life Indicator (HLI), that takes inequality into account and could replace the commonly used ...

We generally think of Venezuela as being an economic basket case. It's just, for example, been added to the--near--official database of hyperinflations, where prices rise by more than 50% a month for ...

The increase was driven by improvements across all its indicators — life expectancy at birth, expected and mean years of schooling, and adjusted real per capita expenditure per annum. Human ...