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which are the development indices?
A development index measures a country's performance according to specific development indicators. Some countries may appear to be developed according to some indices, but not according to others.

Human Development Index:
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a creation of the United Nations Development Programme and represents the practical embodiment of their vision of human development as an alternative vision to what they perceive as the dominance of economic indicators in development. Economic development had the gross domestic product (GDP) so human development had to have the HDI. In essence the HDI represents a measure of the ‘quality of life’.


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