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A Simple Approach to Specifying the Weights of the HDI Index
Yu, Xiaohua - 2012
weights for the Human Development Index (HDI), and finds that the current equal-weighted HDI significantly biases down the … weight of life expectancy. The weights proposed by this study may more properly reflect the humancentered development of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329907
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A simple approach to specifying the weights of the HDI index
Yu, Xiaohua - 2012
weights for the Human Development Index (HDI), and finds that the current equal-weighted HDI significantly biases down the … weight of life expectancy. The weights proposed by this study may more properly reflect the humancentered development of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010357677
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A Simple Approach to Specifying the Weights of the HDI Index
Yu, Xiaohua - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2012
weights for the Human Development Index (HDI), and finds that the current equal-weighted HDI significantly biases down the … weight of life expectancy. The weights proposed by this study may more properly reflect the humancentered development of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010551888
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Human Well-being and Economic Well-being: What Values Are Implicit in Current Indices?
Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2003
This paper develops an Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) for the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, Norway and Sweden for the period 1980 to 2001 which recognizes four components: Current effective per capita consumption flows; Net societal accumulation of stocks of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005481840