An analysis of causal flow between social development and economic growth: the social developement index

American Journal of Economics and Sociology, The,  July, 1996  by Krishna Mazumdar

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Notes

1. Morris D. Morris (1979) introduced Physical Quality of Life Index (PQLI) to measure the level of development of a country on the basis of quality of life indicators. He uses three simple indicators life expectancy at age one, infant mortality rate and adult literacy. PQLI was produced by the unweighted average of these three indicators. For each indicator the performance of individual countries is rated on a scale of 1 to 100, where 1 represents the worst performance by any country and 100 represents the best performance.

2. Discussion in this section is largely based on Rati Ram (1982): "Composite Indices of Physical Quality of Life, Basic Needs Fulfillment and Income: A 'Principal Component' Representation," Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 11, 227-47.

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