introduction of human development index (hdi) by undp in early 1990 followed a surge in use of non-parametric and parametric indices for measurement and comparison of countries performance in development, globalization, competition, well-being and etc. the hdi is a composite index of three indicators. its components are to reflect three major dimensions of human development: longevity, knowledg...

Sustainability is an imperative of the 21st century in order to preserve environment for next generations, but sustainable development also requires introduction and use new technologies, related abilities their use. The United Nations have adopted Human Development Index HDI assess human well-being. This index includes a component knowledge, Education Index, which expressed terms mean schoolin...

The development of nations cannot be determined based on income alone (Sen 1998). The annual Human Development Report (HDR) published by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) gives the values for Human Development Index (HDI) as a measure of achievement of the nations in terms of life expectancy, educational attainment, and adjusted real income. The HDI is a widely used standardized mea...

In 2010 the UNDP unveiled a new methodology for the calculation of the Human Development Index (HDI). In this paper I investigate the normative and practical properties of this change vis a vis the original formulation of the HDI in 1990. The main conceptual innovation of the new index can be summarized as follows: the newHDI penalizes both low and uneven achievements across all dimensions of h...

This article recounts the intellectual history of the UNDP’s Human Development Index. It begins with the early history of welfare economics and follows this field through three successive revolutions in thought culminating in the theory of human development. The first section traces this history from the origins of economic “utility” theory to Sen’s human capabilities approach. The second secti...

Since 1990, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has published a series of annual Human Development Reports (HDRs) in which the human development index (HDI) is computed for each country. This index has become an important alternative to the traditional unidimensional measure of development (i.e. the gross domestic product). Although the index still fails to include any ecological co...

3 List of Tables 4 I. Methodology and Data Source 6 II. Analysis of data using Method I 16 III. Estimates of HDI for year 2001 in Rural AP based on Method III 27 Summary and Conclusions 37

The most limiting weakness of the human development index (HDI) is that it looks only at average achievements and does not take into account the distribution of human development within a country or population subgroups. All previous attempts to capture inequality in the HDI have also used aggregate information and there exists no HDI at the household level. This paper provides a method and ill...

— 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. This allows comparisons of the level in human development of the poor and non-poor within and across countries. An empirical illustration shows large ...