Revisiting the Meaning of Development: A Multidimensional Taxonomy of Developing Countries.

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...

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Published in:	Journal of Development Studies Vol. 49; no. 12; pp. 1728 - 1746
Main Authors:	Tezanos Vázquez, Sergio, Sumner, Andy
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Dec2013
Subjects:	Economic development research Economic indicators Poverty research Economic conditions in developing countries Cluster analysis (Statistics)
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