Development Indices
Development Indices
Issues to be Covered
Development Indicators
Development Indices
Human Development
Human Development Index including Hands-
on-exercise
Development Indicators
Every development indicators is based on a particular
Development Indices
Physical Quality of Life Index (PQLI)
Human Development Indices:
Human Development Index (HDI)
Human Poverty Index (HPI)
HPI-1 for Developing countries & HPI-2 for OECD countries
Development Indices
Physical Quality of Life Index (PQLI)
measure the quality of life or well-being of a
country.
Developed in 1979 by Morris Davis Morris
Indicators: basic literacy rate, infant mortality,
and life expectancy at age one.
criticized because there is considerable overlap
between infant mortality and life expectancy
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Development Indices
Human Development Indices:
Human Development Index (HDI)
A long and healthy life (Life expectancy at birth)
Knowledge (Average years of schooling and expected years of
schooling)
A decent standard of living (GNI per capita - PPP US$)
Development Indices
HPI-1 for Developing countries
Development Indices
HPI-2 for OECD countries
Deprivation in a long and healthy life (Probability at
Development Indices
Gender-related development index (GDI)
GDI adjusts inequalities between men and women
Human Development
In Dickens novel Hard Times Mr. Bounderby
observed that nothing would satisfy his workers, what
the workers really needed, beyond a living wage, was
to be treated like human beings.
Human Development, which is an approach
developed in the context of the UN system, tries to
combine growth with a people centered approach to
development, and has become an important synthesis
in development thinking.
The Human Development Approach is concerned to
establish that income growth alone doesnt always
automatically lead to improved quality of life for all.
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HDI Rank
Country
HDI Value
Norway
.955
Australia
.938
USA
.937
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Canada
.911
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UK
.875
92
Sri Lanka
.715
136
India
.554
146
Bangladesh
.515
146
Pakistan
.515
157
Nepal
.463
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Hands-on-exercise:
Steps to calculate the Human Development Index
There are two steps to calculating the HDI.
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Example: Ghana
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Example: Ghana
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Example: Ghana
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Example: Bangladesh
Indicators
Value
69.2
4.8
8.1
1,785
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Example: X
Indicators
Value
79.2
8.8
12.1
4,785
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