scholarly journals To Rank or Not to Rank with Indices? That Is the Question

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (14) ◽  
pp. 5572
Author(s):  
Stephen Morse
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Human Development Index ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
League Table ◽  
Development Index ◽  
Human Development Report ◽  
League Tables ◽  
The Media ◽  
Ranking Countries

Ranking countries via index-based league tables is now commonplace and is said by its proponents to provide countries with an ability to compare performance with their peers, spurring them to learn from others and make improvements. The Human Development Index (HDI) is arguably one of the most influential indices of its type in terms of reporting within the media and influence on development policy and funding allocation. It is often used as part of a suite of indices to assess sustainability. The index was first published in the Human Development Report (HDR) of 1990 and has appeared in each of the HDRs published since then. This paper reports the first research of its type designed to explore the impacts of methodological changes over 28 years (1991 to 2018) on the ranks of a sample of 135 countries appearing in the HDRs. Results suggest that methodological changes in the HDI have had a statistically significant impact on the ranking of the majority (82%) of countries in the sample, and the ranks of countries that tend to appear towards the top, middle, or bottom of the HDI league table are just as likely to be influenced by changes in HDI methodology. The paper suggests that after nearly 30 years of the HDI, there is an urgent need for independent and empirical research on the changes that it has helped bring about.

Asymmetric Policy of Border Area Development in Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 118 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-85
Author(s):  
Rusdiyanta ◽  
M.Si¹ DanBambangPujiyono ◽  
MM ◽  
M.Si2
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Human Development Index ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Innovative Development ◽  
Autonomous Region ◽  
Development Index ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Border Areas ◽  
Area Development

The condition of the border areas in Indonesia is largely isolated, lagging, poor, and backward so as to require an affirmafive and innovative development policy. This study discusses the asymmetrical policy of Jokowi-JK government in the development of border areas in Indonesia. Most of the border areas are Underdeveloped Regions, so a symmetrical or special policy is required so that the development of border areas is not left behind with other regions or other countries. The implementation of the policy was carried out with the development of infrastructure and basic social services for the community as well as financial distribution, implementation of specific policies and arranging the formation of New Autonomous Region (DOB) in welfare-oriented border areas. This asymmetric policy encourages accelerated development in border areas so as to improve the human development index.

Inequalities in socio-economic development in the world

2015 ◽  
Vol 60 (8) ◽  
pp. 81-100
Author(s):  
Witold Rakowski
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Income Distribution ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Human Development Index ◽  
Development Index ◽  
Human Development Report ◽  
The World ◽  
Socio Economic Development

Based on the Human Development Report 2013 the author presents classification of the countries taking into account HDI value in 2012, non-income HDI and the IHDI (Inequality – Adjusted Human Development Index). IHDI reflects disparities in the income distribution. 187 states of the report are divided into 12 groups by the HDI total value.

Sociale en regionale ongelijkheid

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kees Vos
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Human Development Index ◽  
Development Index ◽  
Human Development Report ◽  
Per Capita

'Ongelijkheid is probleem van iedereen.' Aldus een kop in NRC Handelsblad van 9 december 2019 (Leijendekker, 2019), die verwijst naar het in 2019 verschenen Human Development Report/HDR van de Verenigde Naties. In het VN-rapport prijkt ons land met een Human Development Index (HDI) van 0,933 op de tiende plaats van een lijst met 189 landen. De uit gegevens over levensverwachting, scholing en BBP per capita samengestelde index laat verder zien dat er nog steeds grote ongelijkheid zowel tussen als binnen landen bestaat. Volgens de VN vormt die ongelijkheid een mogelijke belemmering voor de welvaartsgroei in veel landen.

scholarly journals State of Human Development: SAARC and Nepal

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hom Nath Poudel
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Human Development Index ◽  
Economic Literature ◽  
Development Index ◽  
Human Development Report ◽  
Building Resilience ◽  
The Status ◽  
Fresh Perspective ◽  
Overall Performance

<p>Human Development Index (HDI) is the strongest and widely used measure of overall performance of countries. The '2014 Human Development Report <strong>- </strong>Sustaining Human Progress: Reducing Vulnerabilities and Building Resilience' provides a fresh perspective on vulnerability and proposes ways to strengthen resilience. It highlights the need for both promoting people’s choices and protecting human development achievements. It takes the view that vulnerability threatens human development and, unless it is systematically addressed, progress will be neither equitable nor sustainable. Based on the light of this recent report launched on 24 July, 2014, here in this study, an attempt has been made to global highlights of the report, comparison of SAARC countries and remarks on the status of Nepal.</p><p>Economic Literature Vol.12 2014: 50-55</p>

Measuring the Dependence Among Dimensions of Welfare: A Study Based on Spearman’s Footrule and Gini’s Gamma

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (Suppl. 1) ◽  
pp. 87-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Pérez ◽  
Mercedes Prieto-Alaiz
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Linear Correlation ◽  
Human Development Index ◽  
Composite Indicators ◽  
Development Index ◽  
Human Development Report ◽  
Spearman's Rho ◽  
Copula Approach ◽  
Multivariate Dependence ◽  
The Relationship

Welfare is multidimensional as it involves not only income, but also education, health or labour. The composite indicators of welfare are usually based on somehow aggregating the information across dimensions and individuals. However, this approach ignores the relationship between the dimensions being aggregated. To face this goal, in this paper, we analyse the multivariate dependence between the dimensions included in the Human Development Index (HDI), namely income, health and schooling, through three copula-based measures of multivariate association: Spearman’s footrule, Gini’s gamma and Spearman’s rho. We discuss their properties and prove new results on Spearman’s footrule. The copula approach focuses on the positions of the individuals across dimensions, rather than the values that the variables attain for such individuals. Thus, it allows for more general types of dependence than the linear correlation. We base our study on data from 1980 till 2014 for the countries included in the 2015 Human Development Report. We find out that though the overall HDI has increased over this period, the dependence between its dimensions remains high and nearly unchanged, so the richest countries also tend to be the best ranked in both health and education.

The price of peace for the second lung of the planet

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 165-186
Author(s):  
Nadine Feyder
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Human Development Index ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
50Th Anniversary ◽  
World Population ◽  
Development Index ◽  
Human Development Report ◽  
The World ◽  
Republic Of The Congo

In the Human Development Report of 2010, 135 countries representing 92% of the world population had a higher Human Development Index than in the 1970s. Three countries were an exception to the rule: Zambia, Zimbabwe, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). As it celebrates its 50th anniversary of independence, the DRC rates itself 168th out of a total of 169 countries on the Human Development Index scale.

What Does Human Development Index Rating Mean in Terms of Individualism/Collectivism?

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria José Sotelo ◽  
Luis Gimeno
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Human Development Index ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
General Idea ◽  
Development Index ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
The Relationship

The authors explore an alternative way of analyzing the relationship between human development and individualism. The method is based on the first principal component of Hofstede's individualism index in the Human Development Index rating domain. Results suggest that the general idea that greater wealth brings more individualism is only true for countries with high levels of development, while for middle or low levels of development the inverse is true.

Capaian pembangunan manusia: analisis komparatif Provinsi Banten, Jawa Barat dan DKI Jakarta

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriwati Adriwati
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Human Development Index ◽  
Human Population ◽  
Provincial Government ◽  
Healthy Life ◽  
Development Index ◽  
Long Life ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Government ◽  
Development Paradigm

Human development is a development paradigm that puts human (population) as the focus and final target of all development activities, namely the achievement of control over resources (income to achieve decent living), improvement of health status (long life and healthy life) and improve education. To see the success rate of human development, UNDP publishes an indicator of Human Development Index (HDI). This study discusses the achievements of human development that have been pursued by the government. The problem analyzed in this research is the difference of human development achievement in some provincial government in Indonesia. This paper aims to compare the achievements of human development in some provincial governments seen from the achievement of human development index of each province. Research location in Banten Province, West Java and DKI Jakarta.Keywords:Human Development Index, Human Development Achievement

The comparison of MCDM Methods including AHP, TOPSIS and MAUT with an Application on Gender Inequality Index

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Latife Sinem Sarul ◽  
Özge Eren
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Human Development Index ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Inequality Index ◽  
Development Index ◽  
Important Barrier ◽  
Alternative Ranking

Gender Inequality Index is a major indicator presenting level of development of the countries as Human Development Index, which is calculated regularly every year by UN. In this study, an alternative calculation has been proposed for measuring gender inequality index which is an important barrier for the human development. Each indicator in the index integrated as MAUT- AHP and also AHP-TOPSIS and these methods carried out again for the alternative ranking member and candidate countries of the European Union. The main objective here is to represent that the indicators form gender inequality index can be reclassified with different weights for each indicator.

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