Gásquez, Roberto; Royuela, Vicente - In: Social Indicators Research 117 (2014) 3, pp. 827-848
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 …