Towards a more 'Sustainable' Human Development Index: Integrating the environment and freedom

The simulations and the results of the empirical analysis show how the new class of indexes provide a more flexible approach to the procedure of aggregation, especially when the number of dimensions increases and/or when there is the need to stress the importance of one or more dimensions. The introduction of the two environmental and freedom sustainability dimensions greatly increases the potential of the HDI to address the SHD paradigm by capturing two core issues for the humanity and its common future.