Human development and poverty: theoretical approaches

Suman Seth () and Antonio Villar

Chapter 3 in Handbook of Research on Economic and Social Well-Being, 2018, pp 104-125 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter is devoted to the discussion of the measurement of human development and poverty, especially in United Nations Development Programme’s global Human Development Reports. The authors first outline the methodological evolution of different indices over the last two decades, focusing on the well-known Human Development Index (HDI) and the poverty indices. They then critically evaluate these measures and discuss possible improvements that could be made.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Social Policy and Sociology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.elgaronline.com/view/9781781953709.00008.xml (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:15128_3

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.e-elgar.com

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Darrel McCalla ().