kerala with lower per capita income has a better human development ranking than haryana hence per capita income is not a useful criterion at all and should not be used to compare state do in you agree?discuss
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Answer:
Per Capita Income is a useful but not sufficient criterion.
Explanation:
It is clear from the statement of the question that Haryana with higher PCI lacks behind Kerela which has lower PCI in terms of human development. People require health and education facilities too for development and not just more income.
PCI should be used in ranking states but factors such as health and education of people should also be considered.
No, I do not agree with the statement that per capita income is not a useful criterion at all. Kerala, with lower per capita income has a better human development ranking than Maharashtra because, human development ranking is determined using a combination of factors such as health, education, and income. So, this does not imply that per capita income is not useful. Rather, per capita income is one of the development factors and can not be neglected. The World Bank uses per capita income as the criterion for measuring development and comparing states. But this criterion has certain limitations because of which determination of Human Development Index (HDI) is done using this criterion along with some other development factors like health, education etc. If the rate of population growth, is higher than the rate of growth of national income, this will lead to fall in per capita availability of goods and services and economic welfare.