A Generalized Human Development Index

By Satyaki Chakravarty. 2003

165 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Francisco Rodríguez
2. Hyungjin Choi
3. M. Kovačević
4. J. Klugman
5. S. Bhattacharyya
6. Insah Iddrisu

In Safety Research

1. Francisco Rodríguez
2. Hyungjin Choi
3. M. Kovačević
4. J. Klugman

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Francisco Rodríguez
2. Hyungjin Choi
3. M. Kovačević
4. J. Klugman
5. S. Bhattacharyya
6. Insah Iddrisu

Citations in the corpus

• Review of HDI Critiques and Potential Improvements (2010, background): “Some critics have developed and proposed alternative and novel indices (among others Noorbakhsh, 1998, Sagar and Najim, 1998, Lind, 2002, Chakravarty, 2003, Despotis, 2005, Herrero et al, 2010), which are essentially HDIs modified in one way or another.”
• MULTIDIMENSIONAL SOCIAL EVALUATION: AN APPLICATION TO THE MEASUREMENT OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT (2010, unknown): “As in Chakravarty (2003), we follow here an axiomatic approach and provide a family of indices in which the marginal rates of substitution between characteristics are not constant.”
• Setting weights for aggregate indices: An application to the commitment to development index and human development index (2006, unknown): “There were also specific suggestions for modifications (Noorbakhsh, 1998) and for generalisation (Chakravarty, 2003) of HDI.”
• The HDI 2010: new controversies, old critiques (2011, methodology): “The idea that income is not a capability and thus requires an asymmetric treatment from that given to health and education appears to have been well understood by Satya Chakravarty (2003), who developed a generalized family of concave indices that generalized the HDI, and all of which used the conca”
• Robust human development rankings (2008, unknown): “…to the speci c, arbitrary normalization procedures used by UNDP (e.g., Luchters and Menkho¤, 2000; Panigrahi and Sivramkrishna, 2002; Mazumdar, 2003; Chakravarty, 2003), whereas others have primarily focused on the method of aggregating/weighting the di¤erent components (e.g., Noorbakhsh, 1988;…”