kerla with lower per capita income has a better human development ranking than maharastra hence per capita income is not useful criterion at all and shiuld not beused to compare states discuss.
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Kerela with lower per capita income has a better human development ranking than Maharashtra because kerela has high literacy rate, less infant mortality rate, high net attendence ratio than Maharashtra.
However,it would be wrong to say that the per capita income is not useful criterion at all .Per capita is not only the criteria to compare states,but it is one of the criterion to compare states.
Per capita tells us about the average income of the states and can be considered one of the criterion to compare states.
Even though ,per capita income has its own limitations,but it can not be rejected as a factor to compare different states.
Different states can be compared by per capita income along with some other factors like literacy rate,infant mortality ratio,net attendance ratio,educational levels,etc.
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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.