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framework may also be relevant to the construction of other indexes in related
areas, such as tracking the global SDGs or child development. Since the SPI is
currently available only for 2016, another promising direction is to collect time
series data for the new index, both going forward and for several years past,
and expand the current framework to allow for dynamic changes over time.

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