Economics · Human Development Index
The 'capability approach' formulated by Amartya Sen and applied to the framework of Human Development Index (HDI) has often been critically challenged by researchers primarily for:
- 1Overemphasizing formal educational enrollment statistics.
- 2Completely ignoring life expectancy parameters.
- 3Being empirically difficult to operationalize and measure uniformly.✓
- 4Being overly focused on purely macroeconomic growth indicators.
Correct answer
Being empirically difficult to operationalize and measure uniformly.
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