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The Human Development Index and Its Evolution

  • Hirai T
Springer International Publishing, (2017), 73-121
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-51568-7_4
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… This essential point was reacknowledged later by Sen, another founder of the index, as follows: We have to see the human development index as a deliberately constructed crude measure, offered as a rival to the GNP … He [Haq] did succeed in getting the ear of the world …

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Hirai, T. (2017). The Human Development Index and Its Evolution. In The Creation of the Human Development Approach (pp. 73–121). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51568-7_4

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