Weight? -- Chapter 5: Four Domains of Socio-Economic Development and their Indicators as BDI Components -- Chapter 6 … traditional development indicators, such as GDP, to create an index which gives equal weight to social, economic, objective, and … subjective aspects of development. The BDI aggregates forty-two detailed indicators into four composite middle-level indexes …

This book contributes to the empirical literature on economic and human development from five different perspectives … third chapter focuses on the world income distribution and resulting implications for poverty reduction, pro-poor growth and …