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Human Development Index

► The Human Development Index was developed by


Mahbub ul Haq and Amartya Sen and was adopted by the
United Nations Development Program to emphasize that
people and their capabilities should be the ultimate
criteria for assessing the development of a country, not
economic growth alone.

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•►  Step # 1: Create dimensional indices

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➪ Compute for the dimension indeces given the following
data set:
Life Expectancy at birth (years) 71.2
Expected years of schooling 13.1
Mean years of schooling 9.4
GNI per capita 9,778
  𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒−𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑚𝑢𝑚𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒
𝐷𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝐼𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑥=
𝑚𝑎𝑥𝑖𝑚𝑢𝑚𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒−𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑚𝑢𝑚𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒

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•►  Step # 2: Aggregate the dimensional indices

 𝐼 𝐻𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑡h =0.7877

 𝐼 𝐸𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 = 0.6773

 𝐼 𝐼𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 =0.6922

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► Cut-off points for HDI Classification

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