The fourth première of the Human Development Index

Guido Lüchters and Lukas Menkhoff

The United Nations Development Program has published its Human Development Index values for most countries of the world for the past five years. It claims the index provides information that goes beyond the widely-used GDP data and is relevant for policy-making. Critical examination shows that the index does not yet live up to this claim.

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Year of publication:	January/February 1995
Authors:	Lüchters, Guido ; Menkhoff, Lukas
Published in:	Intereconomics : review of European economic policy. - Warsaw, Poland : Sciendo, ISSN 1613-964X, ZDB-ID 2066476-X. - Vol. 30.1995, 1, p. 9-15
Subject:	Development Indicators \| Entwicklungsindikator \| Development indicator \| Sozialer Indikator \| Social indicator \| Welt \| World

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Type of publication:	Article
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Aufsatz in Zeitschrift ; Article in journal
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	10.1007/BF02926356 [DOI] hdl:10419/140481 [Handle]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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