| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 972509 | Mathematical Social Sciences | 2015 | 9 Pages |
Abstract
In this paper we propose to measure human development as a fuzzy concept. We stress that there exists a great deal of vagueness in quantifying a country's level of human development; one such source of vagueness is the weighting scheme embedded in the well-publicized UNDP's Human Development Index (HDI). We propose to evaluate the resulting fuzziness in human development ranking with a truth value function. A truth value is simply a function of the probability that a randomly drawn bundle of weights will rank one country to have a higher HDI than another country. We derive simple and easily computable formulae for calculating the truth value. The method derived is equally applicable to fuzzy rankings with other composite indices.
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Authors
Buhong Zheng, Charles Zheng,