Human Assets Index Retrospective series: 2013 update

Michael Goujon, Closset Mathilde and Feindouno Sosso ()
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Closset Mathilde: UNECLAC
Feindouno Sosso: Ferdi

No P110, Working Papers from FERDI

Abstract: Human capital, a broad concept including education and health, plays a central role in economic development and human well-being. As a consequence, low human capital became one of the three criteria used by the United Nations Committee for Development Policy (UN-CDP) for identifying Least Developed Countries (LDCs). Since 1991, the UN-CDP has used a composite index to measure human capital at the country level. In 2003 this index was reshaped and was renamed the Human Assets Index (HAI) (see UN-CDP webpage on LDCs, and Guillaumont, 2009).

JEL-codes: I31 I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-07
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