Why Hong Kong, Japan and Iceland are the best countries for human development

(Bocconi University) Since its introduction in 1990, UN's Human Development Index has contributed to a better understanding of development, but has its flaws. Bocconi University's Simone Ghislandi and colleagues developed a new index that takes into account only the inequality-adjusted life expectancy at birth: at life expectancy parity, a country with many disadvantaged people dying young and many rich people dying old is considered worse off than a country with all the population living about the same age.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news