We generally think of Venezuela as being an economic basket case. It's just, for example, been added to the--near--official database of hyperinflations, where prices rise by more than 50% a month for ...

States like Kerala and Himachal Pradesh, which have high scores in traditional HDI and are praised for their success, show some of the largest gaps once quality factors are taken into consideration ...

This research uses panel data to explore inferences about human development associated with two different formulations of the Human Development Index (HDI). The first is the standard HDI as computed ...

Africa’s development landscape exhibits significant variation across its 54 nations. While no African country meets ...

Uzbekistan is rated fairly low on an international survey again -- this time the United Nations Human Development Index (HDI). Uzbekistan is ranked at 102 in the "Medium Human Development" category, ...

Researchers have introduced a new, simple measure for human wellbeing across countries, called the Human Life Indicator (HLI), that takes inequality into account and could replace the commonly used ...

A new global ranking puts Cuba at #1, and positions the US and Norway below Niger. This will come as a surprise to anyone used to seeing the Nordic countries topping every country comparison of ...