Fulfilmen of Basic Needs: Concept, Measurement and Muslim Countries’ Performance

Zubair Hasan

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Abstract: This paper adopts a relative approach to the fulfillment of basic needs. It constructs a basic needs gap index (BNGI)to measure the performance of selected Muslim countries at three points of time 1987, 1991, and 1994

Keywords: Basic needs; absolute and relative concepts; measurement; Basic needs gap index (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D11 D12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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Published in IIUM Journal of Economics and Management 2.5(1997): pp. 1-38

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