Visuotinis pažangos indeksas

Abstract

Straipsnyje sisteminami labiausiai paplitę, tačiau kritikuotini valstybės pažangos (vystymosi) matavimo rodikliai. Eigoje siūloma alternatyvi – pagrindinius kritikuotinų rodiklių trūkumus švelninanti ir naujus, svarbius rodiklius apimanti, valstybės vystymosi matavimo metodika – kuria remiantis galima nustatyti atskiros šalies išsivystymą. Tai Visuotinis Pažangos indeksas (VPI) - kuris šalies pažangą matuoja per ekonominę, socialinę, politinę bei aplinkos prizmes

Progress indication, as a result of development, is very important topic for nowadays economists and economy as science. Existing indicators are being criticized for not matching the definition of real country progress and newly created are too simple or too complex to reflect phenomena of development. For this reason, the main topic and problem of this work is what do we mean by the word group „country development“, what compounds it and finally when we realize it, how can we measure it. In the first part of this work the definition of development and progress is being analyzed. The change of development phenomena during the time, there is also showed. The most typical change have been seen in interpretation of development which changed from quantitative to quantitative and qualitative. After a deep investigation in science literature, work shows that development can be traced into progress of four dimensions: economical, social, political and environmental. In the end of this part most popular indicators of progress (used in real life) are being criticized. Work reveals weak parts of such indicators as GDP, Human development indicator (HDI), Physical Quality of Life Index (PQLI), Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW) and Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI). As all criticism was shown in the first part, authors of this article, on behalf of development or progress (there words are used as synonyms) interpretation – build progress measurement mechanism using most popular indicators such as GDP or HDI, by covering their disadvantages with newly added environment and income distribution factors and adding new dimensions in accordance to the progress interpretation used in analysis. In this way the alternative method of measuring country progress has been created. [...]