A New Approach to Human Development Index

Review of Social Economy

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 535-549

  Mazumdar, Krishna ^a  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

D 2statistics; Fixed goal posts; Human Development Index (HDI); Moving goal posts; Rescaled New Human Development Index (RNHDI)

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642540322     PISSN: 00346764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0034676032000160895     Document Type: Article

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