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Measuring Welfare and Happiness The Human Development Index. Evelyn Fuchs Jessica Gatterer Nathalie Harlander. Introduction. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in 1990
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Measuring Welfare and HappinessThe Human Development Index Evelyn Fuchs Jessica Gatterer Nathalie Harlander
Introduction • United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in 1990 • Economists Mahbub ul Haq & Amartya Sen developed a simple measurement method to evaluate development not only by economic advances but also improvements in human well-being. Umweltsystemwissenschaften Karl-Franzens-Universität
Human Development Report (HDR) • Indicator for countries all over the world • Human Development Report is published by the UNDP every year • “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). Umweltsystemwissenschaften Karl-Franzens-Universität
Topics discussed in the HDR • Social progress • Economics • Efficiency • Participation and Freedom • Sustainability • Human Security Umweltsystemwissenschaften Karl-Franzens-Universität
Human Development Index (HDI) • Summary measure of Human Development • Three dimensions of Human Development: • Life expectancy at birth (population & longevity) • Knowledge and education • Standard of living (Gross domestic product per capita at purchasing power parity) Umweltsystemwissenschaften Karl-Franzens-Universität
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 Umweltsystemwissenschaften Karl-Franzens-Universität
Video for Human Development YouTube - Human Development Report 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIbkPPkuKno Umweltsystemwissenschaften Karl-Franzens-Universität
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