Fuzzy well-being in Pacific Asia

McGillivray, Mark and Baliamoune-Lutz, Mina 2006, Fuzzy well-being in Pacific Asia, Journal of the Asia-Pacific Economy, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 168-177.

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Title	Fuzzy well-being in Pacific Asia
Author(s)	McGillivray, Mark Baliamoune-Lutz, Mina
Journal name	Journal of the Asia-Pacific Economy
Volume number	11
Issue number	2
Start page	168
End page	177
Publisher	Routledge
Place of publication	London, England
Publication date	2006-05
ISSN	1354-7860
Keyword(s)	well-being human development index fuzzy logic Pacific Asia health education income per capita
Summary	This paper develops a framework that uses fuzzy-set theory to measure human well-being. Fuzzy sets allow for gradual transition from one state to another while also allowing one to incorporate rules and goals, and hence are more appropriate for measuring outcomes that are ambiguous. Such ambiguity is an inherent characteristic of cross-country achieved well-being assessments. This framework is used to provide a fuzzy representation of the well known Human Development Index (HDI) and its three components. Fuzzy HDI estimates for 14 Pacific Asian countries are provided and compared with non-fuzzy estimates. Quite large differences in rankings emerge. The paper concludes by suggesting that fuzzy measures should be used more widely to measure achieved well-being outcomes.
Language	eng
Field of Research	140399 Econometrics not elsewhere classified
Socio Economic Objective	970114 Expanding Knowledge in Economics
HERDC Research category	C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
Copyright notice	©2006 Taylor & Francis
Persistent URL	http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30028873

Document type:	Journal Article
Collection:	Alfred Deakin Research Institute

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