Human Development Index: Changes in East Central Europe, 1913–2010

0571247 - HÚ 2024 RIV CZ eng J - Journal Article
Holubec, Stanislav - Tomka, B.
Human Development Index: Changes in East Central Europe, 1913–2010.
Politická ekonomie. Roč. 71, č. 2 (2023), s. 130-152. ISSN 0032-3233. E-ISSN 0032-3233
Institutional support: RVO:67985963
Keywords : Human development index of East Central Europe * 20th century * measuring
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
Impact factor: 0.3, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Open access
https://polek.vse.cz/artkey/pol-202302-0002_human-development-index-changes-in-east-central-europe-1913-2010.php

Studies on the long-term trends of quality of life, and more specifically, the Human Development Index (HDI), have thus far largely neglected East Central Europe, and the existing scholarship tends to be fragmented. The paper seeks to address these shortcomings in research by investigating the trends of the HDI in Poland, Czechoslovakia and its successor states, Czechia and Slovakia, as well as Hungary between 1913 and 2010 within a broader international context. The analysis is based on a new data set developed by the authors. The results demonstrate that the HDI performance of the later decades of state socialism was more moderate than it is commonly assumed.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0342520