• Geography
• Published 2005

Human Development: Beyond the HDI

@inproceedings{Ranis2005HumanDB,
  title={Human Development: Beyond the HDI},
  author={Gustav Ranis and Frances Stewart and Emma Samman},
  year={2005}
}

• Gustav Ranis, Frances Stewart, Emma Samman

This paper explores ways of enlarging the measurement and understanding of Human Development (HD) beyond the relatively reductionist Human Development Index. From the extensive literature on well-being, we derived eleven categories of HD. Within each category, we then identified a potential set of indicators which were measurable and reflect performance with respect to that category. In order to reduce the number of indicators representing each category, we included only one for any set highly… CONTINUE READING

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