Mashup Indices of Development

Countries are increasingly being ranked by some new “mashup index of development,” defined as a composite index for which existing theory and practice provides little or no guidance for its design. Thus the index has an unusually large number of moving parts, which the producer is essentially free t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ravallion, Martin
Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2013
Subjects:
GDP
web
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15345