New historical estimates of the human development index
Resumen:
This paper discusses different alternatives to construct the conventional Historical Human Development Index that considers three dimensions: income, health,and education. We discuss the outcome of different models in terms of aggregated improvements in human development, the rankings of performance, relative growth, the contributions to performance of the different dimensions, and the tradeoffs between the three dimensions. The purpose of the paper is to propose an index that we consider better fits historical development and that provides the less possible gaps in the tradeoffs between the different components of the index. Such an index can be considered the best proxy on which to base policy recommendations. The paper works with a sample of 18 countries of seven regions for 1900-2010.
Este documento discute diferentes alternativas para construir el convencional Índice Histórico de Desarrollo Humano con considera tres dimensiones: ingreso, salud y educación. Se discuten los resultados de diferentes modelos en términos de mejoras totales absolutas y relativas en desarrollo humano, los rankings que arrojan, la contribución de los diferentes componentes al crecimiento y las compensaciones entre las tres dimensiones. El objetivo del artículo es proponer el uso del índice que se considera mejor refleja el desarrollo histórico y que ofrece las menores brechas posibles entre las compensaciones de los diferentes componentes. Se trabaja con una muestra de 18 países de siete regiones entre 1900 y 2010.
2021 | |
Human development Tradeoffs Convergence Income Education Healt |
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Universidad de la República | |
COLIBRI | |
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12008/28474 | |
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Licencia Creative Commons Atribución - No Comercial - Sin Derivadas (CC - By-NC-ND 4.0) |
Sumario: | This paper discusses different alternatives to construct the conventional Historical Human Development Index that considers three dimensions: income, health,and education. We discuss the outcome of different models in terms of aggregated improvements in human development, the rankings of performance, relative growth, the contributions to performance of the different dimensions, and the tradeoffs between the three dimensions. The purpose of the paper is to propose an index that we consider better fits historical development and that provides the less possible gaps in the tradeoffs between the different components of the index. Such an index can be considered the best proxy on which to base policy recommendations. The paper works with a sample of 18 countries of seven regions for 1900-2010. |
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