The Moral Development Index
Résumé
In 1990, a “human development index” was introduced, and other indicators have followed. Yet, there is one dimension still missing from all international comparisons: the moral development of a society. My proposal is then to integrate moral development amongst development indicators. At a time when populists claim that the people is innocent and the elite corrupt, why not measure which people is the most generous in the world? We could measure the perceived moral development, as is also done for the perceived corruption indicator (albeit by a combined indicator). Using a questionnaire, we could estimate the number and quality of acts of generosity/honesty etc. that people have performed in a given country, and the ones they have benefited from, over the same period.