| Summary: | 碩士 === 銘傳大學 === 經濟學系碩士班 === 96 === The purpose of this paper is to analyze the long-run trend of the human development in Taiwan . We examine 11 categories of human development and select plausible variables as indicators of these categories. We use the Taiwanese data to calculate the well-known Human Development Index (HDI), gender-related development index (GDI), gender empowerment measure, (GEM), Gini of income. In addition, the other 31 indicators are examined.
The study shows that HDI and GDI from 1990 to 2006 in Taiwan are higher than 0.8, indicating Taiwan is a country with high human development. The mean of GEM from 1990 to 2006 in Taiwan is 0.58, which shows women do not have enough chances in the human development of Taiwan. We also observe that people become less happy over time. However, the empowerment of women and labor, the political freedom, the leisure conditions improve gradually. The family relationship gets worse. Single-parent family rate, children maltreated rate and running away from home rate and the divorce rate are soaring on average. It shows that the social relationships are worsening. As for environmental condtion, we cannot have a decisive conclusion. On the one hand, we find that it improves according to the air and rivers pollution indicator, on the other hand, the emission of the carbon dioxide in Taiwan is increasing over time, indicating its detrimental impact on the environment gets stronger and stronger. We also find HDI is better than income per capita as a HD index.
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