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Human Development: Beyond the HDI

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Gustav Ranis () (Economic Growth Center, Yale University)
Frances Stewart () (Oxford University)
Emma Samman () (Oxford University)

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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.

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Paper provided by Economic Growth Center, Yale University in its series Working Papers with number 916.

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Date of creation: Jun 2005
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Keywords: Human Development; Quality of Life; Comparative Country Performance;

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I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare and Poverty - - - General Welfare
O15 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
O57 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Comparative Studies of Countries

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  1. Misselhorn, Mark & Klasen, Stephan & Harttgen, Kenneth & Grimm, Michael, 2007. "A Human Development Index by Income Groups," Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Göttingen 2007 12, Verein für Socialpolitik, Research Committee Development Economics. [Downloadable!]
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  2. Michelle Baddeley, 2006. "Convergence or Divergence? The Impacts of Globalisation on Growth and Inequality in Less Developed Countries," International Review of Applied Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 20(3), pages 391-410, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  3. Gustav Ranis, Frances Stewart and Emma Samman, . "Country Patterns of Behaviour on Broader Dimensions of Human Development," QEH Working Papers qehwps154, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford. [Downloadable!]
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  4. Emma Samman, 2007. "Psychological and Subjective Wellbeing: A Proposal for Internationally Comparable Indicators," OPHI Working Papers ophiwp006, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford. [Downloadable!]
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