OPINION

What counts to us in development

News, Selim Jahan, Published on 18/09/2017

» To most people, "development" is best measured by the quantity of change -- like gains in average income, life expectancy, or years spent in school. The Human Development Index (HDI), a composite measure of national progress that my office at the United Nations Development Programme oversees, combines all three statistics to rank countries relative to one another.