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Measuring Welfare and
Happiness
The Human Development Index
Evelyn Fuchs
Jessica Gatterer
Nathalie Harlander
Introduction
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United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP) in 1990
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Economists Mahbub ul Haq & Amartya Sen
developed a simple measurement method to
evaluate development not only by economic
advances but also improvements in human wellbeing.
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Human Development Report (HDR)
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Indicator for countries all over the world
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“Human development is concerned with what I take to be the basic
development idea: advancing the richness of human life, rather than
the richness of the economy in which human beings live, which is
only part of it.” (Amartya Sen, Human Development Measurement: A
broader approach in India, 2010:9).
Human Development Report is published by the
UNDP every year
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Topics discussed in the HDR
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Social progress
Economics
Efficiency
Participation and Freedom
Sustainability
Human Security
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Human Development Index (HDI)
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Summary measure of Human Development
Three dimensions of Human Development:
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Life expectancy at birth (population & longevity)
Knowledge and education
Standard of living (Gross domestic product per capita
at purchasing power parity)
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Critical View – HDI
+ good package of indices at a very aggregate level and
especially in relation to the multidimensional aspects
of human development.
- Distorted picture of the world: it ignores the
environmental dimensions of development, especially
the relationships between the performance of
countries on the environmental and human
development dimensions
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Video for Human Development
YouTube - Human Development Report 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIbkPPkuKno
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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:UN_Human_Development_Report_2007_(1).svg
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