An Overview and Evaluation of Composite Indices of Development

By F. Booysen. 2002

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Measurement of Lithuanian Regions by Regional Competitiveness Index (2009, neutral): “The analysis of scientific literature (Bowen et al., 2005, WEF, 2005, Giovannini et al., 2005, Wignaraja et al., 2004, IMD, 2004, Huggins 2003, Booysen, 2002, Lall, 2001 a, b, Huovari et al., 2000, 2001) let summarize the stages of index calculation: forming the theoretical model of a problem,…”
Measuring the Immeasurable: A Survey of Sustainability Indices (2007, background): “In addition, the proper selection of variables can be quite country-specific as sustainability requirements may be viewed differently across countries (Booysen, 2002, p. 139).”
An Introduction to ‘Benefit of the Doubt’ Composite Indicators (2007, background): “Subjective choices are indeed pervasive when answering the many questions bound up with a composite indicator (see Booysen, 2002): what is the overall phenomenon one purports to summarize; which sub-indicators should be included; how should they be An abridged version of this paper was presented at…”
Multidimensional Measures of Well-Being: Standard of Living and Quality of Life Across Countries (2007, background): “…indices and choice of weighting system Composite indices are usually constructed in several stages, including choice of variables, scaling, weighting, and aggregative procedure (for an overview, see Booysen, 2002), but the crucial problem is to assign suitable weights to the indicators.”
An overview of sustainability assessment methodologies (2009, background): “The classification and evaluation of indicators can be done based n the following general dimensions of measurement which is well efined by Booysen (2002).”
On the Methodological Framework of Composite Indices: A Review of the Issues of Weighting, Aggregation, and Robustness (2018, methodology): “Since the latest reviews on the methodological framework of composite indices were published a decade ago (Booysen 2002; Saisana and Tarantola 2002; Freudenberg 2003; Sharpe 2004; Nardo et al.”
Characterizing Weights in the Measurement of Multidimensional Poverty: An Application of Data-Driven Approaches to Cameroonian Data (2008, background): “Email: ningaye2002@yahoo.fr”
Robust human development rankings (2008, positive): “(1) "p (x;y) 0 and (2) "p (y;x) < 0, with”