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Francisco Arcelus, Gopalan Srinivasan and Basu Sharma
 
''Assessing the information content of the technology achievement index in the presence of the human development index''
( 2005, Vol. 15 No.4 )
 
 
This paper supports the proposition that the indexes of technological achievement and of human development exhibit similar information validity and similar country rankings, thus questioning the need for the existence of two indexes rather than one.
 
 
Keywords: human development index
JEL: O3 - Technological Change; Research and Development: General
O5 - Economywide Country Studies: General
 
Manuscript Received : Jan 27 2005 Manuscript Accepted : Jan 28 2005

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