Assessing the information content of the technology achievement index in the presence of the human development index

Francisco Arcelus (), Gopalan Srinivasan () and Basu Sharma
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Francisco Arcelus: University of New Brunswick
Gopalan Srinivasan: University of New Brunswick

Economics Bulletin, 2005, vol. 15, issue 4, 1-5

Abstract: This paper supports the proposition that the indexes of technological achievement and of human development exhibit similar information validity and similar country rankings, thus questioning the need for the existence of two indexes rather than one.

Keywords: human; development; index (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 O5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-01-28
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