life", such as health and equality of opportunity. However, per capita GDP has the virtues of easy interpretation and can … preserves the advantages of per capita GDP, but also includes health and equality. We propose a new parsimonious indicator to …

HDI calculation method nor the decomposition of the HDI into its education, standard of living and health sub-indices. …

Health is a key component of the human development index. This paper looks at how health is measured, how the level of … health across countries is converging, and which countries are outliers to this global trend. We argue that conceptually … health measures should account for illness as well as mortality. However, in practice we show that population mortality and …

relate this process with health and retirement issues. Five dimensions of the ageing process have been considered: population … major individual lifetime landmarks have been evolving in a way that may not be mutually compatible. As for how health …

death, covering a window of unprecedented size (1912-2000) are merged with historical data on macroeconomic and health …