Measuring Progress: A Comparison of the GDP, HDI, GS and the RIE

Natoli, Riccardo; Zuhair, Segu

doi:10.1007/s11205-010-9695-3

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“…Several indicators have been proposed to address the problems of per capita GDP as a well-being measure, including the Human Development Index (HDI), the Happy Planet Index, the Resource-Infrastructure-Environment (RIE) index, Gross National Happiness and the Better Life Index (see ul Haq 2003; Natoli and Zuhair 2011;Fan et al 2018; OECD 2019; New Economics Foundation 2019; for detailed information). For example, the HDI considers three components, gross national income (GNI), life expectancy and schooling, and merges the sub-indices constructed out of these components into a single overall index.…”

Section: Inequality-adjusted Healthy Lifetime Incomementioning

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Going beyond GDP with a parsimonious indicator: inequality-adjusted healthy lifetime income

Bloom¹,

Fan²,

Kufenko³

et al. 2021

Populationyearbook

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Per capita GDP has limited use as a well-being indicator because it does notcapture many dimensions that imply a “good life”, such as health and equality ofopportunity. However, per capita GDP has the virtues of being easy to interpret andto calculate with manageable data requirements. Against this backdrop, there is aneed for a measure of well-being that preserves the advantages of per capita GDP,but also includes health and equality. We propose a new parsimonious indicatorto fill this gap, and calculate it for 149 countries. This new indicator could beparticularly useful in complementing standard well-being indicators during theCOVID-19 pandemic. This is because (i) COVID-19 predominantly affects olderadults beyond their prime working ages whose mortality and morbidity do notstrongly affect GDP, and (ii) COVID-19 is known to have large effects on inequalityin many countries.

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Section: Inequality-adjusted Healthy Lifetime Incomementioning

confidence: 99%

Going beyond GDP with a parsimonious indicator: inequality-adjusted healthy lifetime income

Bloom¹,

Fan²,

Kufenko³

et al. 2021

Populationyearbook

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“…This index was first created in 1990 and then modified in 2010, taking into consideration three components: (i) life expectancy, (ii) education and (iii) gross domestic product (GPD) per capita [39]. The index has several flaws, becoming redundant and generally presenting the same result obtained with GDP per capita, as well as evaluating only three components that do not faithfully reflect what is intended to be measured [40].…”

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Urban Development Index (UDI): A Comparison between the City of Rio de Janeiro and Four Other Global Cities

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One of the methods to assess the urban development of a city is to allocate indicators that quantify its efficiency in performing various functions, such as urban mobility, security, sustainability, and economy, among others. The motivation of this work is the fact that the city of Rio de Janeiro, although widely known and admired around the world for its natural beauty, has a wide negative notoriety regarding its urban functionality. There is a critical need for investment in the city’s infrastructure in order to improve the quality of life of its population. The novelty of this work is in proposing an index that quantifies the urban functionality of the city of Rio de Janeiro and that represents urban development. The research focuses on optimizing investments in infrastructure and hence increasing the urban performance offered by the city of Rio de Janeiro. In the proposed methodology for modeling the Urban Development Index (UDI), this work presents the model structure made from a knowledge-based urban development assessment model (KBUD/AM), the determination of the indicators, the selection of the cities, the data collection from primary and secondary sources and the use of statistical techniques for data normalization and scaling. The research aims to quantify, compare and evaluate the level of urban development of Rio de Janeiro, performing benchmarking with other four global cities (Stockholm, Shanghai, Boston, and Cape Town). Cities are ranked for their UDI to make the comparison more straightforward. Based on the results, Rio de Janeiro ranks second to last among the five cities studied, with an UDI of 0.395, only slightly better than Cape Town. The results confirm that the city of Rio de Janeiro has several deficiencies, especially in the education, safety and health sectors, and is very far from most of the other developed cities. The city of Rio de Janeiro should promote investments in research and development. Finally, this work confirms that Rio de Janeiro must tackle security problems as a matter of priority.

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“…GDP/capita). Non-monetary dimensions of well-being were later taken up by the Human Development Index (United Nations Development Programme 1990, Natoli & Zuhair 2011.…”

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Indicators: from Counting to Communicating

Martin

Dopheide

2014

Journal for Education in the Built Environment

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The use of indicators for analysing quality of life conditions and differential access to resources and opportunities has gained attention in both academia as well as the planning practice and policy arena. However, teaching methods and usage of indicators is a challenge since it requires the practice of going through all the steps of developing indicators in a short period of time. These steps range from counting, construction, and operationalisation of the indicators to more policy and learning related steps that require a critical and reflective process. This gradient (from the traditional and mechanistic to the critical) is also reflected in the evolution of the indicators movement. To analyse and illustrate this development, we documented the education, fieldwork and research on indicators carried out at our faculty in the past 20 years. Our experience suggests that indicators have a great potential to bring the worlds of academics (research and education) and of planning and policy making closer together. However, we believe that in the education process it is of utmost importance to emphasise the shift in the role of indicators from one of traditional counting and description towards a more critical and communicative role. We present a framework to show the existing dichotomies and how to incorporate this shift in indicator development.

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Measuring Progress: A Comparison of the GDP, HDI, GS and the RIE

Cited by 25 publications

References 41 publications

Going beyond GDP with a parsimonious indicator: inequality-adjusted healthy lifetime income

Going beyond GDP with a parsimonious indicator: inequality-adjusted healthy lifetime income

Urban Development Index (UDI): A Comparison between the City of Rio de Janeiro and Four Other Global Cities

Indicators: from Counting to Communicating

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