The aim of this paper is to examine whether football can be considered an indicator of development at the international … level. An empirical econometric model is designed in order to analyse development in terms of GDP per capita as well as in … terms of the Human Development Index. Cross-sectional and time-series information are used. The results suggest that FIFA …

distribution of achievements across dimensions. As an example we correct the human development index by means of the …

; and (5) the overall level of each country’s broad-based social development (or quality of life). The paper concludes with …

-being and assets—the Middle Years Development Instrument (MDI)—and examined its reliability and validity. The MDI was designed … to assess child well-being inside and outside of school on five dimensions: (1) Social and emotional development, (2 …

socio-economic phenomenon such as development, the main focus being on the unbalance among individual dimensions. First a … unbalance among development dimensions into account; a separate index is also introduced that measures the unbalance itself …