Human development Index: Methodology and Measurement

By S. Anand, Amartya Sen. 1994

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Machine Learning that Matters (2012, background): “Improvement of 10% in one country’s Human Development Index (HDI) (Anand & Sen, 1994) attributable to an ML system.”
The Evolution of World Inequality in Well-Being (2009, methodology): “By using the standardization procedures described in table (1), the achievements on the di¤erent dimensions of well-being are rescaled to a value between 0 and 1.”
Introduction to the Analytic Hierarchy Process (2014, background): “More recently, starting in the early Nineties, a more inclusive and composite measure accounting for multiple criteria called Human Development Index has been popularized by economists such as the Nobel laureate Amartya Sen [4].”
The Income Component of the Human Development Index (2000, background): “In the case of the earlier HDRs, namely those of 1990–1993, the contribution of the ‘discounted income’ component W(y) to HDI is expressible as (see Anand and Sen, 1993): S 13 D W(y) 2 Mini[W(yi)]Maxi[W(yi)] 2 Mini[W(yi)] where yi is the real per-capita income (in PPP$) of country i.”
Cross-National Indices with Gender-Differentiated Data: What Do They Measure? How Valid Are They? (2012, methodology): “(2006, 2008) initially created a data set on the indicators and later Branisa et al. (2009) worked on an aggregation scheme.”
On Weighting the Components of the Human Development Index: A Statistical Justification (2011, methodology): “Surveys of the literature on the HDI are given in Kelly ( 1991 ), Anand and Sen ( 1992 , 2000 ), and McGillivray and White ( 1993 ).”