States like Kerala and Himachal Pradesh, which have high scores in traditional HDI and are praised for their success, show some of the largest gaps once quality factors are taken into consideration ...

The increase was driven by improvements across all its indicators — life expectancy at birth, expected and mean years of schooling, and adjusted real per capita expenditure per annum.

Once seen as a promising mid-tier state in South Asia, Pakistan now remains in the low human development bracket and trapped ...

Every year, the United Nations releases the Human Development Index. The HDI is like a country’s report card. In a single number, it tells policymakers and citizens how well a country is doing. This ...

This research uses panel data to explore inferences about human development associated with two different formulations of the Human Development Index (HDI). The first is the standard HDI as computed ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. On the regional level, as the Human Development Index ...

Researchers have introduced a new, simple measure for human wellbeing across countries, called the Human Life Indicator (HLI), that takes inequality into account and could replace the commonly used ...

We generally think of Venezuela as being an economic basket case. It's just, for example, been added to the--near--official database of hyperinflations, where prices rise by more than 50% a month for ...