International Journal of Research in Social Sciences

  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 9
  • Issue: 6

Assesing the plausability of GDP as a proxy indicator for measuring social and human development: A case study of India from 2005–2015

  • Author:
  • Nikita Vohra
  • Total Page Count: 9
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 411 to 419

Bachelors program, Majors in Economics, Amity University, Noida

Abstract

Simon Kuznets and further innovators in the showground of National Bookkeeping not once well-thought-out that Gross National Products might or must accommodate as a measure of economic or communal welfare. It critiques the unsuccessful use of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as a grade of nationwide well-being, something for which it was never envisioned. By holding up queries like, weather an upsurge in GDP automatically means that the service level and hence the jobs would grow, further helping in eliminating poverty by giving foremost people an income to tolerate living on or weather former is a fairytale. We conclude that much valuable work has been completed; many of the alternate indicators have been used magnificently in numerous levels of community preparation.

Keywords

Gross domestic product, Social and human development, Sustainable development, Welfare, Redifining prosperity