Indicadores de desenvolvimento socioeconômico. Uma síntese

• Main Author: Dieter Rugard Siedenberg
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Regional do Noroeste do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul 2003-01-01
• Series: Desenvolvimento em Questão
• Subjects: social; economical development markers; growth; development; developmentsrates; human development index
• Online Access: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=75210104

This article presents some considerations about many different questions related to social-economical development markers: approaches some historical aspects related to the beginningof the researches about markers; summarizes the main controversies and criticisms addressedto the use of GDP (Gross Domestic Product) as a development´s marker; presents someconsiderations about markers, their function, basic requirements and distinguishes theirmain types; shows, in a succinct way, the main social development markers and also mentions other markers and, finally, approaches some aspects related to the United Nation´s HDI(Human Development Index).