The human development index
Each year since 1990 this report has published
a human development index (HDI) that looks
beyond GDP to a broader definition of wellbeing.
The HDI provides a composite measure
of three dimensions of human development:
living a long and healthy life (measured by life
expectancy), being educated (measured by adult
literacy and enrolment at the primary, secondary
and tertiary level) and having a decent standard
of living (measured by purchasing power
parity, PPP, income). The index is not in any
sense a comprehensive measure of human development.
It does not, for example, include
important indicators such as respect for human
rights, democracy and inequality. What it does
provide is a broadened prism for viewing human
progress and the complex relationship between
income and well-being
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Interesting views upon HDI and HDP indexes.
I will come back and present som material from The Baltic States soon!
Hello Hans!
Lets talk about poverty as a subject at the Strategy meeting in September 2007. It seems as if the problem gets bigger and bigger in the aftermath of Transition Phase 1? We too have some data from Lithuva and Poland aswell Norway and Sweden up north and from some parts of Greenland and The Faroe Islands. Maybe the EU infra-structure projects have created some mismatch and moved innovation away from certain areas! See you fellars in September 2007!
Hello NEE-NØ!
Its OK with us in week 37 and we will send a guard to your West-Group meetings - propperly Stanislas B!
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