Human Development Index (DUE DATE SEPTEMBER 12TH)

1. Human Development
Cesar Alejandro Montelongo Saucedo
INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO DE SALTILLO
12/September/2018

2. Human Development
Human development is defined as the process of enlarging people’s
freedoms and opportunities and improving their well-being. Human
development is about the real freedom ordinary people have to decide
who to be, what to do, and how to live.

4. Human development index (HDI)
The Human Development Index was developed as an alternative to
simple money metrics. It is an easy-to-understand numerical measure
made up of what most people believe are the very basic ingredients of
human well-being: health, education, and income. The first Human
Development Index was presented in 1990. It has been an annual
feature of every Human Development Report since, ranking virtually
every country in the world from number one (currently Iceland) to
number 177 (currently Sierra Leone).

6. Gini index
The Gini index or Gini coefficient is an economic measure that serves to
calculate the income inequality that exists between the citizens of a
territory, usually a country.
It is between 0 and 1, being zero the maximum equality (all citizens have
the same income) and 1 the maximum inequality (all income is a single
citizen). This same concept of inequality can be understood graphically
through the Lorenz curve.

8. Inequality-adjusted human development
index
The IHDI combines a country’s average achievements in health,
education and income with how those achievements are distributed
among country’s population by “discounting” each dimension’s average
value according to its level of inequality. Thus, the IHDI is distribution-
sensitive average level of HD. Two countries with different distributions
of achievements can have the same average HDI value. Under perfect
equality the IHDI is equal to the HDI, but falls below the HDI when
inequality rises.

10. Inequality-adjusted human development
index
The difference between the IHDI and HDI is the human development
cost of inequality, also termed – the loss to human development due to
inequality. The IHDI allows a direct link to inequalities in dimensions, it
can inform policies towards inequality reduction, and leads to better
understanding of inequalities across population and their contribution
to the overall human development cost.

11. Mexico in the list of countries by HDI.
Mexico’s HDI value for 2015 is 0.762, which put the country in the high
human development category, positioning it at 77 out of 188 countries
and territories. Between 1990 and 2015, Mexico’s HDI value increased
from 0.648 to 0.762, an increase of 17.5 percent. Table A reviews
Mexico’s progress in each of the HDI indicators. Between 1990 and
2015, Mexico’s life expectancy at birth increased by 6.2 years, mean
years of schooling increased by 3.1 years and expected years of
schooling increased by 2.7 years. Mexico’s GNI per capita increased by
about 34.9 percent between 1990 and 2015.

14. Conclusions
Regarding human development in Mexico, all states have their potential
in terms of work. It is only a matter of applying well the resources
obtained from them in order to be an entity with greater boom in this
area.
Mexico is a country in which, to my point of view, it needs to make the
most of all its natural assets in order to become a world power and be
able to face countries with greater human development.