The paper is an attempt to evaluate the efficiency of Pena's DP-2 method over a host of methods used to make composite indices. To undertake this exercise, variables and data used and methodology adopted in Human Development Report 2011 are employed along with nine other methodologies employed...

This study is an attempt to identify the determinant factors of quality of life in Dimapur and its periphery. Dimapur town is the most important and cosmopolitan commercial centre of Nagaland, India. We delineate the township into five concentric rings around the CBD and every ring into several...

This study deals with several issues relating to an investigation into conceptualization, definition, measurement, spatial and community-wise distribution, asymmetry, inequality and a few other related aspects of quality of life in a commercial township of a developing tribal-abundant state...