Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, USA.
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Abstract: The Human Development Index (HDI) is the most used international barometer for analyzing and comparing the well-being of different countries. Figure 1 displays the distribution of the HDI for developing countries from 1988 to 2003. In 1988 the distribution appears to be approximately uniformly distributed. By 2002/2003, however, the distribution changed substantially. Two spikes are apparent, one around the value of 0.5 and another spike at the value of 0.8. Interestingly, these two spikes coincide with the HDI threshold values used to define countries as “low”, “medium” and “high” human development countries. The goal of this research is to investigate the causes of this distribution phenomenon from an economic, political and statistical perspective. The results are likely to have wide ranging consequences for how the HDI and its classification system should be used and interpreted by policy makers and researchers in the field of international development.
Bibtex:
@misc{,
title={Endogenous Choice OF Development Indicators: Are Development Countries Misclassified? Evidence from the HDI},
author={Wolff, Hendrik and Auffhammer, Maximilian},
year={2006},
howpublished={\url{http://are.berkeley.edu/~wolff/Abstract of HDI Research.pdf}},
}
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Subject Area(s): Economics