@techreport{10902/6324,
year = {2014},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10902/6324},
abstract = {Many existing classifications of developing countries are dominated by income per
capita (such as the World Bank’s low, middle, and high income thresholds), thus
neglecting the multidimensionality of the concept of ‘development’. Even those
deemed to be the main ‘alternatives’ to the income-based classification have income
per capita heavily weighted within a composite indicator. This paper provides an
alternative perspective: clusters of developing countries. We take 4 ‘frames’ on the
meaning of development: economic development, human development, better
governance, and environmental sustainability. We then use a cluster procedure in order
to build groups of countries that are to
some extent internally
‘homogeneous’, but
noticeably dissimilar to other groups. The advantage of this procedure is that it allows
us identify the key development characteristics of each cluster of countries and where
each country fits best. We then use this taxonomy to analyze how the developing
world has changed since the late 1990s in terms of clusters of countries and the
country groupings themselves.},
publisher = {Center for Global Development},
publisher = {Center for Global Development Working Papers, 2014, 375},
title = {How has the developing world changed since the late 1990s? A dynamic and multidimensional taxonomy of developing countries},
author = {Sumner, Andy and Tezanos Vázquez, Sergio},
}