The value is the average of three statistics: basic literacy rate , infant mortality, and life expectancy at age one, all equally weighted on a 1 to 100 scale.
He thought that they would cover a wide range of indicators like health, sanitation, drinking water, nutrition, education etc.
PQLI might be regarded as an improvement but shares the general problems of measuring quality of life in a quantitative way.
The development of a country should be such that the living standards of the poor rises, and the basic requirements of the citizens are fulfilled.
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