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The Human Development Index: A History

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dc.contributor.authorStanton, Elizabeth A.
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
dc.date2023-09-22T21:04:18.000
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-26T20:01:28Z
dc.date.available2024-04-26T20:01:28Z
dc.date.issued2007-01-01
dc.description<p>Working Paper 127</p>
dc.description.abstractThis article recounts the intellectual history of the UNDP’s Human Development Index. It begins with the early history of welfare economics and follows this field through three successive revolutions in thought culminating in the theory of human development. The first section traces this history from the origins of economic “utility” theory to Sen’s human capabilities approach. The second section is a chronicle of past and present measures of social welfare used in the fields of economics and development, including national income and a variety of composite measures up to and including HDI.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7275/1282621
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/40243
dc.relation.urlhttps://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1101&amp;context=peri_workingpapers&amp;unstamped=1
dc.source.issue127
dc.source.statuspublished
dc.subjecthuman development
dc.subjectwell-being
dc.subjecthuman development index
dc.subjecteconomic history of thought
dc.subjectsocial welfare measurement
dc.subjectEconomics
dc.titleThe Human Development Index: A History
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