Indeed, the United Nations has developed a measure of quality of life called the Human Development Index ( UN HDI).

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Using the recent discussion of the United Nations Human Development Index (HDI), which relates quality of life with access to energy ( The Middle Class, Energy And Terrorism), we can speculate as to whether Egypt will be better off after the Arab Spring than before it.

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