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Selected Works of Srijit Mishra
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HDI: The Old, the New and the Elegant
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (2011)
  • Srijit Mishra, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research
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Abstract

This lecture critically discusses the HDI measure, the old measure of linear averaging (arithmetic mean), the new measure of geometric mean and a proposed new measure which is the inverse of the shortfall of the Euclidean distance from the ideal.

Keywords
  • HDI,
  • linear averaging,
  • geometric mean,
  • MANUS axioms
Disciplines
Publication Date
March 16, 2011
Citation Information
Srijit Mishra. "HDI: The Old, the New and the Elegant" Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (2011)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/srijit_mishra/71/