Nathan, Hippu Salk Kristle; Mishra, Srijit - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
The conventional measure of Human Development Index (HDI) is a linear average across dimensions, HDI1. Under this, poor … attainments in any dimension gets perfectly compensated for better attainments in any other dimension HDI2, which is based on … Euclidean distance measuring shortfall from the ideal, addresses the above anomaly. In our analysis of progress, we use HDI2 to …