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The Human Development Index: suggested corrections

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  • P. PALAZZI

    (Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza")

  • A. LAURI

    (Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza")

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Full substitutability and equal weighting principles of the human development index (HDI) have been found to be ineffective in determining appropriate HDI values and should therefore be dropped. An index can be devised with equal distribution of values of the component variables to correct HDI in proportion to a country's distance from the perfect equilibrium point while differential weighting may be substituted with a line in three dimensional space.

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  • P. Palazzi & A. Lauri, 1998. "The Human Development Index: suggested corrections," Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly Review, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, vol. 51(205), pages 193-221.
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    Methods; Economic indicators; Social economics; Human development index;
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