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Human Development Index Mapping of India

The human development index is a statistic that ranks countries based on indicators of life expectancy, education, and income. It was created by Dr. Mahbub-ul-haq to assess countries' success in key areas of human development - access to resources, health, education, equity, sustainability, productivity, and empowerment. However, the HDI has weaknesses such as omitting some important dimensions, using questionable assumptions, and ignoring inequality.

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Human Development Index Mapping of India

The human development index is a statistic that ranks countries based on indicators of life expectancy, education, and income. It was created by Dr. Mahbub-ul-haq to assess countries' success in key areas of human development - access to resources, health, education, equity, sustainability, productivity, and empowerment. However, the HDI has weaknesses such as omitting some important dimensions, using questionable assumptions, and ignoring inequality.

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HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

INDEX MAPPING OF INDIA


The
is a statistic composite index of
life expectancy, education ,and per
capita income indicators,which are
used to rank countries into four tiers of
human development.
 The concept of HD was intoduced by
Dr.Mahbub-ul-haq.
It was published by

Access to resources, health and


education are the key area in HD.
• EQUITY- It refers to creating equal access to oppurtunities and
ensures that is available to everybody. The oppurtunity accessible
to people must be equal irrespective of their gender ,race,income
and in the indian case cast.
• SUSTAINABILITY- It means durableness in the availability of
oppurtunities . To have sustainable human development each
creation must have the same oppurtunties.All environmental,
financial and human resources must be used keeing in mind the
expectations.
• PRODUCTIVITY- In the case of human development productivity
means human labour productivity or productivity in terms of
human work.Such productivity should be constantly enriched by
building capabilities in people.
• EMPOWERMENT- It means to have the power to make choices.
Such power comes from increasing freedom and aptitude. Good
governance and people - oriented policies are necessary to
empower people. The empowerment of socially and economically
underprivilaged groups is of special importance.
:Increasing life expentancy
mainly focuses on:-
• Health
• Education
• Poverty
• Social protection
:Education
:Per-capita income
• Weak indicators
• Missing dimentions
• Normalization introduces
artifacts
• 'Equal' weights are not equal ,
not justified
• Functional form
• Comparision across time
probematic
• Ignores inequality
• Redundancy
• The HDI gives an overall index
of economic development.
• There are certain differences
among different states
development conditions so
there must be equal
oppurtunities for development
for all.
• some important issues are
missing in HDI such as
infrastucture and some
economic factors.

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