Re-examining human development in West Bengal, India

Arijit Das ()
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Arijit Das: University of Gour Banga

Journal of Social and Economic Development, 2017, vol. 19, issue 2, No 6, 364 pages

Abstract: Abstract For more than 20 years, Human Development Index (HDI) is most popular composite measures of well-being. To review economic and social performance across sub-state (i.e. district), most of the states in India have published State Human Development Report. The government has a constant need to estimate levels of well-being across various dimensions to inform resource allocation and to formulate appropriate development programmes. HDI is widely known measure of well-being which synthesizes three dimensions in a linear scale ranging in between 0 and 1. The limitations of such exercise are often overlooked in rush for unidimensional quantitative indicators of well-being. This present paper highlights the methodological drawback of the West Bengal Human Development Report, 2004 and proposes an alternative standard variant of HDI at sub-state (i.e. district) level of West Bengal.

Keywords: Human development; Well-being; HDI; SHDR (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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