Human Development Index (IDH) using Mathematical Programming: The Iberoamerican Case.

Towards a Trans-disciplinary Technology for Business Intelligence, Gathering Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Management and Decision Making

Schaker Verlag GmbH

Lugar: Aachen; Año: 2011; p. 345 - 356

The United Nations Development Programme (PNUD) has been calculating since 1990 the Human Development Index (IDH) which, although it has been meant great progress, it has also been subject to criticism. Having in mind the main goal of setting more objective methods to establish weighting on which the PNUD is based for its calculation, we will propose a new methodology to determine this Index, using Mathematical Programming, both to determine the weight of each attribute and to determine the IHD calculation in Iberoamerican countries. The lineal method used to calculate the IDH of these countries is based on the principles used by the Compromise Programming. The results are compared to the ones calculated by the PNUD.