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The human development index: Suggested corrections
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The Human Development Index: Suggested Corrections
1. Introduction the three factors that go to make up the index - income, life eYnentanov ancl literacv - have not heen chan*ed altholl*h the the three factors that go to make up the index - income, life expectancy, and literacy - have not been changed, although the methods of computing these indicators have been adjusted;
it) there has been no change in the two assumptions implicit in the construction of the index: complete substitutability among the three variables and equal weighting of the three factors.
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