Comparing regional human development using global frontier difference indices

Tom Van Puyenbroeck and Nicky Rogge

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2020, vol. 70, issue C

Abstract: It is well-known that composite indicator construction relies on several intermediate modelling steps and that, as a result, one should be cautious about the exact rankings of observations on the basis of specific composite index values. One way to deal with this concern rests on comparing groups rather than individual observations, which has e.g. been advocated for the well-known Human Development Index. Data Envelopment Analysis, which has become quite popular for composite indicator construction, also provides some tools to assess such intergroup differences. We here focus on the Global Frontier Difference index as introduced by Asmild and Tan [1]; and use some variants of this index to study inter-regional differences in human development performance.

Keywords: Composite indicator; Benefit of the doubt; Data envelopment analysis; Human development index; Inter-regional differences; Global frontier difference index (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2018.10.014

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