A new approach to the humandevelopment index

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Autor(a) principal: Silva, Inês Filipa Gaspar da
Data de Publicação: 2022
Tipo de documento: Dissertação
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/137020
Resumo: Dissertation presented as the partial requirement for obtaining a Master's degree in Statistics and Information Management, specialization in Risk Analysis and Management
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spelling A new approach to the humandevelopment indexHuman Development IndexHuman DevelopmentEnvironmental SustainabilityGovernanceWorldviewSDG 3 - Good health and well-beingSDG 4 - Quality educationSDG 5 - Gender equalitySDG 13 - Climate actionSDG 14 - Life below waterSDG 15 - Life on landDissertation presented as the partial requirement for obtaining a Master's degree in Statistics and Information Management, specialization in Risk Analysis and ManagementMuch critique has been made towards the Human Development Index (HDI) in the current development debate. The composite Index is widely used as the standard measure to evaluate human development and progress across countries by comprising income, health, and education measures. However, it has been proved that other welfare measures, such as governance, personal safety and environment and its sustainability, are of importance to human well-being and, therefore, should be included. This study seeks to contribute to the debate on how the human development of a country should be measured by proposing a composite Index that builds on new aggregation formulas and incorporates several essential aspects of life. Specifically, the indicator widens the scope of the HDI and attempts to find which is the most developed country in the world based on the analysed measures. In this research, three alternative aggregation methods are performed on seven aspects of human well-being, an addition of security, lifestyle, governance, and environmental sustainability dimensions, which translates into three distinctive Indices. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is performed on one of the Indices. The second and third Indices are computed by weighting and aggregating the data, where equal weights are assigned to all variables and dimensions, respectively. The resulting values of these Indices and country rankings are analysed and compared against the HDI. These results suggest that the worldview may be seriously distorted as problems of governance and sustainability are not considered when accessing human well-being.Gonçalves, Rui Alexandre HenriquesRUNSilva, Inês Filipa Gaspar da2022-04-27T13:03:18Z2022-03-222022-03-22T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesisapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10362/137020TID:202983455enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2024-03-11T05:14:45Zoai:run.unl.pt:10362/137020Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-20T03:48:47.140640Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv A new approach to the humandevelopment index
title A new approach to the humandevelopment index
spellingShingle A new approach to the humandevelopment index
Silva, Inês Filipa Gaspar da
Human Development Index
Human Development
Environmental Sustainability
Governance
Worldview
SDG 3 - Good health and well-being
SDG 4 - Quality education
SDG 5 - Gender equality
SDG 13 - Climate action
SDG 14 - Life below water
SDG 15 - Life on land
title_short A new approach to the humandevelopment index
title_full A new approach to the humandevelopment index
title_fullStr A new approach to the humandevelopment index
title_full_unstemmed A new approach to the humandevelopment index
title_sort A new approach to the humandevelopment index
author Silva, Inês Filipa Gaspar da
author_facet Silva, Inês Filipa Gaspar da
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Gonçalves, Rui Alexandre Henriques
RUN
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Silva, Inês Filipa Gaspar da
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Human Development Index
Human Development
Environmental Sustainability
Governance
Worldview
SDG 3 - Good health and well-being
SDG 4 - Quality education
SDG 5 - Gender equality
SDG 13 - Climate action
SDG 14 - Life below water
SDG 15 - Life on land
topic Human Development Index
Human Development
Environmental Sustainability
Governance
Worldview
SDG 3 - Good health and well-being
SDG 4 - Quality education
SDG 5 - Gender equality
SDG 13 - Climate action
SDG 14 - Life below water
SDG 15 - Life on land
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