The Human Development Index The Human Development Index is a composite statistic of income per capita, life expectancy and education developed by economists Mahbub ul Haq and Amartya Sen. According to the United Nations Development Programme HDI "should be the ultimate criteria for assessing the development of a country"
In 2010 the United Nations introduced an Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index, stating that "the IHDI is the actual level of human development. Their latests statistics, published on December 14, 2015 placed China 90th overall. There are several reasons to why China is considered a developing country and economy. A step in the right direction was implemented with the use of the 1978 economic reforms which was used to test new regulations and to push the country's GDP. The Hukou system was put in place to control the population of china. It contributed to much urbanization and also created inequality between the rural and Urban China. This improved the HDI of china. |
PoliticalClick below to explore the Political Development of China during the industrialization and how the Hukou system urbanized and furthered inequality in the rural and urban parts of China
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SocialChinese industrialization and the resulting urban growth increased the the social inequality between rural migrants and urban residents in the city of Beijing. Click below to explore the social development of China from the 1980s to the 2010s.
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EconomicClick below to explore the Economic Development of China during the Industrialization Period through the implementation of the Shenzhen SEZ and how it impacted the GDP of China.
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