What Is The Human Development Index (HDI?

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Under the knowledge economy, every country has focused on human development. It is not only the goal of economic development and but also the purpose of development which create an environment allowing people to enjoy a long life, good health and creativity. Human Development Index (HDI) is a concept introduced by UNDP (United Nation Development Programme) launched, with a system of rational and methodology to evaluate and compare the level of economic as well as social development among countries and territories across the world. The HDI is used to evaluate the level of development of the world’s nations.) According to Human Development Report of UNDP, the HDI is a brief measure for approaching long-term process in three basic perspectives …show more content…

There is no doubt that the economic growth, namely income growth, has contributed to the greatest which accounted for more than half of the achievement. Meanwhile, because of indicators of health, low education is slowing overall progress of Vietnam. Public expenditure on education in Vietnam is comparable with countries in the region, but the quality of education is lower. As health care spending is most from private sources and 56% is taken from civilian's tax. In detail, 50% of the poor have no social assistance; only 20% of employees participate in social insurance contributions. Vietnam spends less than 1% of GDP to social assistance for the poor. In the report of 2011 launched the first multi-dimensional poverty index for Vietnam. Multidimensional Poverty Index measures the different forms of deprivation in health, education and standard of living. According to this report, the rate of non-monetary poverty in Vietnam (those lacking the health, education and standard of living) is at 23.3%, higher than the national poverty rate is 14, 5%. (Bac, …show more content…

Evenly, in the period of 1990 and 2000, Vietnam experienced higher HDI growth rate (1.70%) than the period between 2000 and 2013 (0.96). In the Human Development Report in 2011, Vietnam's HDI is lower than China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Philippines but higher than Cambodia and Laos. However, according to this report, along with China and Thailand, Vietnam's HDI ranking in 2011 did not change compared to 2010, while the rating of Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, Philippines and Malaysia have increased. Vietnam has made impressive changes in average life expectancy, rising from 65.6 years old in 1990 to 75.2 years old in 2011. The national income (GNP) per capita increased from 855USD up to 2.805USD during the same period. Expected years of schooling increased from 7.8 years in 1990 to 10.4 years in 2011, while the mean years of schooling increased from 4 to 5.5 years (the same period). From 2000 to 2011, GNP per capita grew 77%, the average life expectancy rose from 72 to 75.2 years old. Nonetheless, the expected number of years of schooling almost unchanged, rising only from 10.3 to 10.4 years and the mean years of schooling increased from 4.5 to 5.5 years. In 2011, the quality of education in Vietnam is lower than other countries in the region. On average in East Asia and the Pacific, the expected

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