This week’s topics
Development Indicators and Measurement
- Gross Domestic Product (GDP) vs Gross National Income (GNI)
- Human Development Index (HDI)
- Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)
- Gender Inequality Index
- Real GDP Per Capita and the Standard of Living (Gross Domestic Product)
- Lecture 23: Income Distribution, Poverty, Productivity
- Linking gender, education and poverty
What you will be able to do
- 3.1 Explain a range of measures of development.
Activity
Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: explain a range of measures of development.
Study materials
Videos
- Real GDP Per Capita and the Standard of Living (Gross Domestic Product) · YouTube · Marginal Revolution University · 5 min · for registered students
- Linking gender, education and poverty · YouTube · UCL Institute of Education · 12 min · for registered students
- Decoding GDP: How to measure pastries, pencils, and pyjamas · YouTube · OECD · 22 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Human Development Report 2025: Technical notes (UNDP) · PDF · Un, guidance · for registered students
- Principles of Economics 3e, ch. 19.1: Measuring the economy – GDP · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 449–457 · for registered students
- Human Development Index data centre (UNDP) · Reading · Un, report · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
