The human development index as a criterion for optimal planning [electronic resource] / Merwan Engin...
The human development index as a criterion for optimal planning [electronic resource] / Merwan Engin...
The human development index as a criterion for optimal planning [electronic resource] / Merwan Engineer, Ian King & Nilanjana Roy.
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Melbourne : Dept. of Economics, University of Melbourne, 2008.
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2008.
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Melbourne : Dept. of Economics, University of Melbourne, 2008.
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Planning strategies that maximize the Human Development Index (HDI) tend towards minimizing consumption and maximizing non-investment expenditures on education and health. Interestingly, such strategies also tend towards equitable outcomes, even though inequality aversion is not modelled in the HDI. A problematic feature of strategies that maximize...
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The human development index as a criterion for optimal planning [electronic resource] / Merwan Engineer, Ian King & Nilanjana Roy.
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Research paper / University of Melbourne, Dept. of Economics, 0819-2642 ; no. 1041.
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"May 2008".
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. Address as at 19/09/2011: http://www.economics.unimelb.edu.au/research/workingPapers.html.
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9780734040077
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338.9
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