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Efficiency in human Development: a Data Envelopment Analysis Efficiency in human Development: a Data Envelopment Analysis

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  • Valérie Vierstraete

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The human development index (HDI) is a measure of development which allows countries' development to be assessed on the basis of three indicators that measure the health, education, and standard of living of the population. The UNDP also computes a human development index that excludes this last indicator, the non-income HDI. The HDI, like the non-income HDI, presents some striking inter-country disparities. In this study, we wish to demonstrate that inefficiency in the utilization of financial resources can have an incidence on non-income HDI scores. Thus, owing to a certain "waste" in their use of resources, countries with similar levels of spending may end up with differing levels of human development. We measure this efficiency using the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method

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  • Valérie Vierstraete, 2012. "Efficiency in human Development: a Data Envelopment Analysis Efficiency in human Development: a Data Envelopment Analysis," European Journal of Comparative Economics, Cattaneo University (LIUC), vol. 9(3), pages 425-443, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:liu:liucej:v:9:y:2012:i:3:p:425-443
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    1. Milica Jovanović & Gordana Savić & Yuzhuo Cai & Maja Levi-Jakšić, 2022. "Towards a Triple Helix based efficiency index of innovation systems," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 127(5), pages 2577-2609, May.
    2. Djedje Hermann Yohou, 2015. "In Search of Fiscal Space in Africa: The Role of the Quality of Government Spending," CERDI Working papers halshs-01222812, HAL.
    3. Nazli Goker & E. Ertugrul Karsak & Mehtap Dursun, 2022. "An Integrated QFD and Common Weight DEA-Based Fuzzy MCDM Framework for Performance Ranking of Countries," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 159(1), pages 409-430, January.

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    Keywords

    Data Envelopment Analysis; efficiency; development; human development index; non-income HDI;
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    JEL classification:

    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
    • O57 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Comparative Studies of Countries
    • D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
    • H5 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies

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