Revisiting the Meaning of Development: A Multidimensional Taxonomy of Developing Countries |
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Authors: | Sergio Tezanos Vázquez Andy Sumner |
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Affiliation: | 1. Iberoamerican Research Office on International Development &2. Co-operation, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spaintezanoss@unican.es;4. King’s International Development Institute, King’s College London, UK |
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Abstract: | Many have challenged the use of income per capita as the primary proxy for measuring development since Seers’s seminal works. This article continues this tradition with a more recent twist. We use cluster analysis to build a multidimensional taxonomy of developing countries using a set of indicators covering four conceptual frames on ‘development’. The value-added of the article is not to suggest that our classification is the end in itself, but – more modestly – to demonstrate that more work on taxonomies is required in light of the weakness of classifications based solely on income and the changing distribution of global poverty. |
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