The tyranny of international index rankings

Journal of Development Economics

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-14

  Høyland, Bjørn ^a   Moene, Karl ^b   Willumsen, Fredrik ^b  

^a CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH OSLO CICERO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

International indexes; Latent variables; Ranking

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX; RANKING;

EID: 80054710438     PISSN: 03043878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2011.01.007     Document Type: Article

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