For those of you who might be interested, Sen was also one of the originators of the UN's Human Development Index which measures and ranks countries' human development based on a series of social, economic and cultural indicators. See _http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index) & _http://hdr.undp.org/hdr2006/report.cfm_ (http://hdr.undp.org/hdr2006/report.cfm) . I used to work for UNDP and we used these report extensively. Perhaps complexity models would be a useful tools for the HDIs. Paul Paryski
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