Abstract
Marchante A. J. and Ortega B. (2006) Quality of life and economic convergence across Spanish regions, 1980–2001, Regional Studies 40, 471–483. Evaluations of regional welfare conventionally rely on gross value added (GVA) per capita as an indicator of living standards. This paper attempts to readdress the regional welfare issue by using alternative composite indicators in the context of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Human Development Indices. Evidence is presented regarding to what extent such alternative measures of living standards are converging. With this aim, a database for the Spanish regions (NUTS II) was constructed for 1980–2001 and an augmented version of the Human Development Index (AHDI) was estimated incorporating sub-indices of health, education and the resources required for a decent standard of living, including an indicator of social exclusion. The regional convergence of three per-capita income measures, and the raw data of seven indicators of quality of life, were also...
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