Human Development Index—Revisited: Integration of Human Values

Journal of Human Values 21 (1):23-36 (2015)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

In the present article, the concept of Human Development Index has been revisited so as to integrate the human values using the Corruption Perception Index measured by Transparency International, for different countries, as a simple generalization within the framework of existing Anand and Sen’s and Haq’s prescription. In this framework, a geometrical average of three indices corresponding to three dimensions, namely, the life expectancy, years of schooling and standard of living, was taken. In order to have HDI in broader perspective, one has to integrate another important dimension known as human values. The main hypotheses of this article are: human values play an important role in human development; CPI has a strong correlation with HDI; and CPI is intimately linked with the outcome of human values. The important finding of this article is the successful establishment of these hypotheses which brought appreciable changes in the HDI when human values are integrated with it. As a result, most of the countries showed a vast decline in HDI, affecting the respective ranking of different countries. Such a value-based HDI is supposed to motivate even the richer countries to improve their HDI ranking in future.

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 90,593

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

Routes to Reality: Scientific and Rishi Approaches.Subhash Sharma - 2001 - Journal of Human Values 7 (1):75-83.
Human Values in Management.R. K. Dasgupta - 1997 - Journal of Human Values 3 (2):145-160.
Character Competence of the Corporation.Subhash Sharma - 2002 - Journal of Human Values 8 (2):107-118.
The Asian values thesis revisited: evidence from the world values surveys.Christian Welzel - 2011 - Japanese Journal of Political Science 12 (1):1-31.
Development Not as Freedom.Prasenjit Maiti - 2004 - Journal of Human Values 10 (1):63-69.

Analytics

Added to PP
2015-09-02

Downloads
28 (#490,139)

6 months
4 (#319,344)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?