Índice de Desenvolvimento Humano Sustentável: uma abordagem para blocos econômicos a partir de países selecionados

Abstract

This paper proposes to measure the level of sustainable human development for 56 countries and eight economic blocs in 2018. Specifically, it is intended to rate which countries and economic blocs develop in a sustainable way. For this, the Environmental Index (EI) was constructed, proposed by Blancard & Hoarau (2013) and Chansarn (2014), using the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Subsequently, the Sustainable Human Development Index (SHDI) was measured, based on the geometric mean of the dimensions of the Human Development Index (HDI) and EI, according to the formulation suggested by Blancard & Hoarau (2013) and Bravo (2014). The results indicated that, in general, nations have achieved high EI and experienced improvements in their well-being. Therefore, it is concluded that environmental variables were use efficiently in 2018.