Composite indicators have become an indispensable tool to synthesise multifaceted data into a single, interpretable metric for assessing human development. The construction of these indicators ...

This research uses panel data to explore inferences about human development associated with two different formulations of the Human Development Index (HDI). The first is the standard HDI as computed ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Making wealth creation easy, accessible and transparent. The Human Development Index evaluates individual human development in ...

Each year, the United Nations Development Program produces the Human Development Report. This is a compilation of country-level data around education, health, and economic security that aspires to ...

Human development does not happen in a vacuum. A growing economy, an improved educational system, and better health outcomes cannot be removed from broader questions of governance, political stability ...

A country’s gross domestic product (GDP), which measures total economic output, is central to how governments assess their economies. But this figure, when looked at in isolation, which is most often ...

Mangaluru: Zilla panchayat chief executive officer Narwade Vinayak Karbhari directed officials of all departments to ...

Iraq has crossed into the high human development category for the first time in its history, Prime Minister Mohammed Al-Sudani announced at the launch of the country's Human Development Report for ...

Shimla, Feb. 21 -- Himachal Chief Secretary Prabodh Saxena on Thursday presided over the orientation workshop for Thematic Working Groups (TWGs) for preparing the State Human Development Report (SHDR) ...