02721nam a2200385 4500 20260818084422.0 170398 th eng .b10026125 AIT Thesis no. 1146 Vo Dong Khai A composite development index Bangkok : Asian Institute of Technology, 1975 1 v. (various pagings) Thesis ; no. 1146 A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering of the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand . Thesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1975 Development means creating the conditions for the realization of human needs. Its evaluation must therefore take into accost economic as well as social dimensions. G.N.P. or Per Capita Income can grow rapidly without any significant improvement in poverty, unemployment, inequality, etc . .. So ,development must be measured more comprehensively using a multi-dimensional approach. In this study, twenty four factors are selected and grouped into five distinct dimensions of development: (1) Economic, (2) Level of living, (3) Human resources, (4) Cultural, and (S) Demographic. Taxonomic method is first used to determine the dimensional indices. Correlation analysis is then used to find the relative weightage for each of the above dimensions in order to obtain a composite development index. Seventy eight countries in the world, with available data, are studied for ranking and scaling using the composite development index, and twelve of them, specially, in Asia, are studied to measure the development trend during the last decade. Economic development Mathematical models Pakorn Adulbhan, Chairperson Sharif, M. N., Examination Committee Woo, Wai-Ling, Examination Committee Government of Australia, Scholarship Donor Asian Institute of Technology. Thesis ; no. 1146 Full-Text http://203.159.5.9/ait-thesis/detail.php?q=B24146 .b10026125 mnait x 260519 2 951012 m a x 2 mnait mnarc 20 40 Barcode : 30050003022638 CREATED : 1994-05-16 RECORD # : i10007751 LPATRON : 1015808 LCHKIN : 2005-02-07 # RENEWALS : 0 # OVERDUE : 0 IUSE3 : 0 TOT CHKOUT : 2 TOT RENEW : 0 Barcode : 30050160087630 CREATED : 2016-04-05 RECORD # : i12970840 LPATRON : 0 LCHKIN : - # RENEWALS : 0 # OVERDUE : 0 IUSE3 : 0 TOT CHKOUT : 0 TOT RENEW : 0 20398 20398 0 0 0 0 MAIN MAIN mnait 2026-08-18 10.00 0 AIT Thesis no. 1146 30050003022638 2026-08-18 08:44:22 2 2026-08-18 20 0 0 0 0 MAIN MAIN mnarc 2026-08-18 0 AIT Thesis no. 1146 30050160087630 2026-08-18 08:44:22 2026-08-18 40