Happy Teachers day! A sunday well spent I’d say. No logins, no problems. Need some qualitative days to cut off from the workload. Heard Abhijeet sir’s story today (AIR 653 – CSE 2017), felt sad that this also can happen to someone – get a rank yet denied a service. Anyway, today’s learnings – Other Human Development Indices
Other Human Development Indices
- Gender Development Index measures the gender gaps in human development achievements by accounting for disparities between women and men in three basic dimensions of human development – Health, knowledge and living standards using the same component indicators as in the HDI and it is calculated for 188 countries
- The dimension for Gender Development Index are – Long and Healthy life, Knowledge and Standard of living for both men and women
- The indicators for Gender Development Index are life expectancy, expected years of schooling, mean years of schooling and GNI per capita.
- The dimension index includes life expectancy index, education index and GNI index.
- Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI) combines a country’s average achievements in health, education and income with how those achievements are distributed among country’s population by discounting each dimension’s average value according to its level of inequality, thus making HDI the distribution sensitive average level of Human Development
- The main difference between the IHDI and the HDI is the human development costs of inequality which is also termed as the loss to human development due to inequality.
- The dimension for Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index are – Long and Healthy life, Knowledge and decent Standard of living for both men and women
- The indicators for Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index are life expectancy, expected years of schooling, mean years of schooling and GNI per capita.
- The dimension index includes Inequality-adjusted life expectancy index, Inequality-adjusted education index and Inequality-adjusted GNI index.
- Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) – Which was published for the first time in 2010 report, complements monetary measures of poverty by considering overlapping deprivations suffered by individuals at the same time.
- Around 1.5 billion people in 102 developing countries currently covered by the MPI which is about 29 percent of the population live in multidimensional poverty, i.e with atleast 33% of the indicators reflecting acute deprivation in health, education and standard of living.
- The dimension for Multidimensional Poverty Index are – Health, Education and Standard of living for both men and women
- The indicators for Multidimensional Poverty Index are nutrition, child mortality, years of schooling, children enrolled, cooking fuel, toilet, water, electricity, floor and assets.
- The poverty measures includes intensity of poverty and headcount ratio.
- A world bank study concluded that only 16% of growth is explained by physical capital and 20% from natural capital, but more than 64% can be attributed to human and social capital
So this was all about Other Human Development Indices. Stay tuned for more information!
