a component of development. At a basic level it involves such measures as access to water, food, health and education etc. At higher levels, it may include freedom of speech and religious worship. Various attempts have been made to quantify it. Best known is the PQLI -Physical Quality of Life Index -which uses infant mortality, literacy and life expectancy to score countries out of 100.
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