Practice question · Numerical answer
The Human Development Index has been published annually by the United Nations Development Programme since which year?
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- It first appeared in the same decade as the collapse of the Soviet Union.
- Nineteen ninety.
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1990
Why
1990. It was designed by Mahbub ul Haq with Amartya Sen as an explicit rebuke to income-only rankings, combining life expectancy, schooling and income. Its weaknesses are the price of that simplicity: three dimensions, equally weighted by fiat, and nothing about distribution.
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