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Procesos of Human and Social Development
By Robert Macfarlane - Sept. 20, 1999

 
K. Watkins: Journal of Human Development
K. Watkins:
Globalization and Liberalization: Implications for Poverty, Distribution and Inequality
1997
Some concepts come to define entire economic policy eras. For the 1990s, 'globalisation' will be recorded as the dominant theme. States are in retreat in the face of powerful international economic forces which, we are constantly told, are circumscribing their sphere of action. The resurgence of laissez faire economic theory celebrates the fact. While carrying different connotations for different people, globalisation encapsulates both a description of changing patterns of world trade and finance, and an overwhelming conviction that deregulated markets will achieve optimal outcomes for growth and human welfare. Seldom since the heyday of free trade in the nineteenth century has economic theory inspired such certainty - and never has it been so far removed from reality.
To the detached observer, noting the contrast between the presumed benefits of globalisation and developments in the real world, the international economy displays a number of worrying trends. Most obviously, poverty, mass unemployment, and inequality have grown alongside the expansion of trade and foreign investment associated with globalisation. In the developing world, poverty continues to increase in absolute terms, and the gap between 'successful' and 'unsuccessful' countries is widening. In the industrialised world, unemployment has reached levels not witnessed since the 1930s and, in some countries, income inequalities are wider than at any time this century. In a world of disturbing contrasts, the gap between rich and poor countries, and between rich and poor people, continues to widen. It is increasingly apparent that this reality will not be changed through growth alone.

  U.N.: Globalization and Liberalization (Report, June 1996)
UNDP: Human Development Report 1999. Overview.
UNDP: Ten years of Human Development (1990-1999)
UNDP: Human Development Reports: global, regional and national
  M.ul Haq: Human Development in a changing world, 1992
UNDP: Human Development Report Indicators
UNDP: Growth as means to human development (1996)
R.Rojas: The dynamics of unequal social relations: gender, race, income
  UNDP: Poverty Eradication: A Policy Framework for Country Strategies
IMF: Social Dimensions of the IMF's Policy Dialogue
UNCTAD: The Trade and Development Report, 1997 (press release 1)
UNCTAD: The Trade and Development Report, 1997 (press release 2)
 
 
Research Institute for Social Development/United Nations
 
The Center for Economic and Social Rights
UNDP: Occasional Papers and Background Papers
In preparation for the Human Development Report every year, the HDRO commissions a number of experts to write papers on issues related to the theme of the Report. The following is a compilation of selected Occasional Papers written since 1992. Individually, each paper brings to light a key facet of human development in different parts of the world. Together, they help establish a framework of tools, concept and action to address the issue of human development worldwide.

The report also draws from a number of independent research papers by distinguished academics and policymakers. These background papers are available online and can also be purchased from the UN publications office.

Viewing some of these papers will require Adobe Acrobat Reader. This free software can be downloaded here

  1. Measuring Technology Achievement of Nations and the Capacity to Participate in the Network Age
    M. Desai, S. Fukuda-Parr, C. Johansson, and F. Sagasti
     
  2. Fiscal Policy, Accountability and Voice: The Example of Gender Responsive Budget Initiatives
    Isabella Bakker
     
  3. Political and Economic Institutions, Growth and Poverty – Experience of Transition Countries
    Marek Dabrowski and Radzislawa Gortat 2002
     
  4. Trends Toward Transnational Justice: Innovations and Institutions
    Richard Falk 2002
     
  5. Voice, Accountability and Human Development: The Emergence of a New Agenda
    Anne Marie Goetz and Rob Jenkins 2002
     
  6. Voice and Accountability: the Media and the Internet in Democratic Development
    Takashi Inoguchi 2002
     
  7. Civil Society and Accountability
    Mary Kaldor 2002
     
  8. State of the Art in Governance Indicators
    Adeel Malik 2002
     
  9. Basic Social Services for All? Ensuring Accountability Through Deep Democratic Decentralisation
    Santosh Mehrotra 2002
     
  10. Mixing Money and Politics: How Campaign Finance affects Democratic Governance in the U.S.
    Lincoln Mitchell and Leo Glickman 2002
     
  11. Regional Overview of the Impact of Failures of Accountability on Poor People
    Ahmed Mohiddin 2002
     
  12. Giving Voice to the Voiceless: Good Governance, Human Development & Mass Communications
    Pippa Norris and Dieter Zinnbauer 2002
     
  13. Expanding Voice and Accountability Through the Budgetary Process S. R.
    Osmani 2002
     
  14. Civil society, the media and internet as tools for creating accountability to poor and disadvantaged groups
    Enrique Peruzzotti and Catalina Smulovitz 2002
     
  15. Political Parties, Justice Systems and the Poor: The Experience of the Arab States
    Nazih Richani 2002
     
  16. Civil Society, Media and Accountability in the Arab Region
    Naomi Sakr 2002
     
  17. Political and Judicial Accountability Failures to the Poor in Latin America
    Sergio Spoerer 2002
     
  18. Empowerment, Participation and the Poor
    Paul Streeten 2002
     
  19. Role of the Media and the Internet as Tools for Creating Accountability to Poor and Disadvantaged Groups
    Katarina Subasic 2002
     
  20. The Media, Accountability, and Civic Engagement in Africa
    Wisdom J. Tettey 2002
     
  21. Poverty Eradication and Democracy in the Developing World
    Ashutosh Varshney 2002
     
  22. Accountability in Global Governance
    Ngaire Woods 2002
     
  23. ICT in a Developing Country Context: An Indian Case Study
    C.P. Chandrasekhar, 2001
     
  24. Energy and Human Well Being
    Jose Goldemberg, 2001
     
  25. People’s Initiatives to Bridge the Digital Divide
    Nadia Hijab, 2001
     
  26. Industrialization Options for the Poorest Countries
    Howard Pack, 2001
     
  27. Global Governance and Technology
    Calestous Juma, 2001
     
  28. Trends in Digital Divide
    S. Nanthikesan, 2001
     
  29. The Knowledge Explosion and the Digital Divide
    A Sagasti, 2001
     
  30. National strategies for technology adoption in the industrial sector: Lessons of recent experience in the developing regions
    Sanjaya Lall, 2001
     
  31. Venture capital. New ways of financing technology innovation
    Andreas Pfeil, 2001
     
  32. Intertemporal Welfare Dynamics
    Shahin Yaqub, 2001
     
  33. Social technology and human health
    David E. Bloom, River Path Associates and Karen Fang, 2001
     
  34. Costa Rica´s Development Strategy based
    on Human Capital and Technology: how it got there, the impact of INTEL, and lessons for other countries

    Andres Rodríguez-Clare, Visiting Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard University, 2001
     
  35. The Income Component of Human Development Index
    Sudhir Anand and Amartya Sen, 2000
     
  36. Human Rights in Action: Cambodia Country Study
    Kassie Neou, 2000
     
  37. Human Rights and Human Development: Thailand Country Study
    Vitit Muntarbhorn, 2000
     
  38. Informe Sobre Desarrollo Humano 2000: Desarrollo Humano Y Derechos Humanos En Chile
    Jorge Correa Sutil, 2000
     
  39. Human Rights, Environment and Development: with Special Emphasis on Corporate Accountability
    Ayesha Dias, 2000
     
  40. Egypt Human Rights Report
    Bahey El-Din Hassan, 2000
     
  41. The United Nations and Human Rights: Achievements and Challenges
    Cornelius Flinterman and Jeroen Gutter, 2000
     
  42. Rules of International Economic Integration and Human Rights
    Jayati Ghosh, 2000
     
  43. Human Rights and Human Development: Learning from Those Who Act
    Nadia Hijab, 2000
     
  44. Housing Rights
    Scott Leckie, 2000
     
  45. Human Development and Human Rights—South African Country Study
    Sandra Liebenberg, 2000
     
  46. Human Rights and Human Development: India
    Dr. Vina Mazumdar, Prof. Lotika Sarker and Prof. S.P. Sathe, 2000
     
  47. Human Rights in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Regional Perspective
    Juan E. Mendez, 2000
     
  48. Human Rights and Human Development: Thailand Country Study
    Vitit Muntarbhorn, 2000
     
  49. The African Human Rights System: A Critical Evaluation
    Makau Mutua, 2000
     
  50. Human Rights in Action: Cambodia Country Study
    Kassie Neou, 2000
     
  51. Separate and Unequal: Trade and Human Rights Regimes
    Roger Normand, 2000
     
  52. Regional Study  on Human Development and Human Rights—Central Asia
    Martha Brill Olcott, 2000
     
  53. Human Rights and Sustainable Development  in  Contemporary Africa—A  New  Dawn or Retreating Horizon?
    Joseph Oloka-Onyango, 2000
     
  54. Country Study - Honduras: The Birth of Citizenship and State Conscience
    Andrés E. Perez, 2000
     
  55. Has Income Distribution really Worsened in the South? And Has Income Distribution Really Worsened Between the North and the South?
    Pable Rodas-Martini, 2000
     
  56. Country Study of Uzbekistan
    Akmal Saidov, 2000
     
  57. National Strategies—Human Rights Commissions, Ombudsmen, Specialized Agencies and National Action Plans
    Paulo Sergio Pinheiro and David Carlos Baluarte, 2000
     
  58. Regional Study on Human Development and Human Rights in Central and Eastern Europe
    Darko Silovic, 2000
     
  59. Droits de la Personne et Developpement Humain Au Rwanda: 1984-1999 Bilan et Perspectives
    Jean Rubaduka and Noël Twagiramungu, 2000
     
  60. Antecedents of the Idea of Human Rights: A Survey of Perspectives
    Polly Vizard, 2000
     
  61. The State of Human Development Data and Statistical Capacity Building in Developing Countries
    Jacques Loup, 2000
     
  62. UNDP’s Gender-Related Indices: A Critical Review. World Development 27(6): 985–1010. (GDI, GEM)
    Bardhan, Kalpana, and Stephan Klasen. 1999
     
  63. Social Impacts of the Asian Crisis: Policy Challenges and Lessons
    Jong-Wha Lee and Changyong Rhee, 1999
     
  64. Financial Management of Globalization of Developing Countries
    Arjun Sengupta, 1999
     
  65. Poverty, Human Development and Financial Services
    J. D. Von Pischke, 1997
     
  66. Globalizaton and Liberalization: Implications for Poverty, Distribution and Inequality
    Kevin Watkins, 1997
     
  67. Human Poverty in Transition Economies: Regional Overview for HDR 1997
    Ewa Ruminska-Zimny, 1997
     
  68. Growth, Human Development and Economic Policies in Japan: 1955-1993
    Tsuneo Ishikawa, 1997
     
  69. Economic Growth and Human Development in the Republic of Korea
    Jong-Wha Lee, 1997
     
  70. Poverty Alleviation in China: Commitment, Policy and Expenditures
    Amei Zhang, 1997
     
  71. Human Development and Shelter: A Human Rights Perspective
    Clarence J. Dias and Scott Leckie, 1996
     
  72. Growth, Poverty and Human Development in Pakistan
    Nurul Islam, 1996
     
  73. The Rise and Fall of the "Swedish Model"
    Stefan de Vylder, 1996
     
  74. Economic and Human Development in China
    Amei Zhang, 1996
     
  75. Growth, Human Development in Latin American Countries--Long-term Trends
    Oscar Altimir, 1996
     
  76. Poverty and Human Development in India: Getting Priorities Right
    A.K. Shiva Kumar 1, 1996
     
  77. Gender Inequality in Human Development: Theories and Measurement
    Sudhir Anand and Amartya Sen, 1995
     
  78. Measures of Unrecorded Economic Activities in Fourteen Countries
    Luisella Goldschmidt-Clermont and Elisabetta Pagnossin-Aligisakis, 1995
     
  79. Sustainable Human Development: Concepts and Priorities
    Sudhir Anand and Amartya K. Sen, 1994
     
  80. Reflections on Human Development
    Mahbub ul Haq, 1995 (available from Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-510193-6)
     
  81. New patterns of Macro-Economic governance
    Hans W. Singer and Stephany Griffith-Jones, 1994
     
  82. A New Framework for Development Cooperation
    Keith Griffin and Terry McKinley, 1994
     
  83. Human development Index: Methodology and Measurement
    Sudhir Anand and Amartya K. Sen, 1994
     
  84. Decentralization : a Survey of Literature from a Human Development Perspective
    Jeni Klugman, 1994
     
  85. Decentralization in Chile
    Frances Stewart and Gustav Ranis, 1994
     
  86. Decentralization in Zimbabwe
    Frances Stewart, Jeni Klugman and A.H. Helmsing, 1994
     
  87. War, Peace and Third World Development
    Dan Smith, International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, 1994
     
  88. Human Development: An African Perspective
    Sadig Rasheed and Eshetu Chole, 1994
     
  89. A Means to Closing Gaps: Disaggregated Human Development Index
    A. Halis Akder, 1994
     
  90. Human Development: From Concept to Action, A 10-Point Agenda
    Inge Kaul and Saraswathi Menon, 1993
     
  91. Human Development in a Changing World
    Mahbub ul Haq, 1992
     
  92. Globalisation and the Developing World: An Essay on the International Dimensions of Development in the Post-Cold War Era
    Keith Griffin and Azizur Rahman Khan, 1992
     
  93. Developing Countries in the International Economic System: Their Problem and Prospects in the Markets for Finance, Commodities, Manufactures and Services
    Dragoslav Avramovic, 1992
     
  94. Global Governance for Human Development
    Paul Streeten, 1992
     
  95. Disarmament as a Chance for Human Development: Is there a Peace Dividend?
    Herbert Wulf, 1992
     
  96. Towards a Human Development Strategy
    Keith Griffin and Terry McKinley, 1992
     
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Background Papers:

Gaye, Amie
Access to Energy and Human Development [331 KB]
Access to modern energy services is fundamental to fulfilling basic social needs, driving economic growth and fueling human development. This is because energy services have an effect on productivity, health, education, safe water and communication services. Modern services such as electricity, natural gas, modern cooking fuel and mechanical power are necessary for improved health and education, better access to information and agricultural productivity.
There are wide variations between energy consumption of developed and developing countries, and between the rich and poor within countries, with attendant variations in human development. Furthermore, the way in which energy is generated, distributed and consumed affects the local, regional and global environment with serious implications for poor people’s livelihood strategies and human development prospects1. This paper attempts to examine the linkages between energy services and human development in developing countries. It does so by comparing modern energy use in developed and developing countries and argues that a threshold of modern energy is required to achieve growth and improvement in human development. The paper also assesses the effect of fossil fuel use on greenhouse gas emissions and developing countries’ capacity to adapt to climate change. It discusses the dual challenge of mitigating climate change and meeting the energy demands of developing countries in a sustainable way.

Kelkar, Ulka, and Suruchi Bhadwal
South Asian Regional Study on Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation: Implications for Human Development [728 KB]
It is now increasingly realised that even with the currently agreed regime of emissions control, concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHG) are likely to rise over the next few decades and over the millennia. Climate change is likely to threaten all life forms on earth with the extent of vulnerability varying across regions and populations within regions. The impacts however are likely to fall disproportionately upon developing countries, in particular, the poor living within them. Reduced capacities to be able to effectively respond to increased climatic variability and change in the climate exacerbates vulnerabilities.
Changes in temperature and precipitation patterns and numerous other factors will impact both natural and human systems. Climate sensitive sectors like agriculture, forestry, water resources and coastal regions, and, human systems including human health, human settlements, industry and energy sectors will be drastically affected (IPCC 2001).

Volpi, Giulio
Climate Mitigation, Deforestation and Human Development in Brazil [1,406 KB]
Climate change mitigation in developing countries is a growing priority for many governments. Much of the current research into this area concentrates on emissions from industry and households. However, in many countries changing land use patterns drives carbon flows into the atmosphere. This Thematic Paper for the UNDP Human Development Report 2007 focuses on tropical deforestation as a major source of rising carbon emissions and wider human development problems in the Brazilian Amazon–the largest area of tropical forests in the world. Consistently with the Terms of Reference, this paper cover five broad themes: (i) the scale, pace and location of deforestation; (ii) an analysis of the factors driving deforestation, including public policies; (iii) how deforestation is contributing to carbon emissions; (iv) the human development effects of deforestation, and; (v) what can be done to address the problem.

Chaudhry, Peter, and Greet Ruysschaert
Climate Change and Human Development in Viet Nam [224 KB]
Viet Nam is a low-income country, but has recently made spectacular progress in terms of both economic growth and poverty reduction. The official poverty rate has fallen from 58 percent in 1993, to 19.5 percent in 2004 (VASS 2006). Strong economic growth is likely to continue following recent accession to the World Trade Organisation, with increased international trade and direct foreign investment reinforcing Viet Nam’s progress towards middle-income country status. As Viet Nam continues to be transformed from a highly centralised command economy, to a more market based one, the urgent challenge is to ensure that the relatively equitable growth that has taken place to date is sustained. Inequality is already increasing, with growth and poverty reduction rates in remote areas markedly lower than those in and around the growth poles of Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, and this may have significant long term consequences for Viet Nam’s future ability to respond collectively to climate related vulnerabilities.

IGAD, ICPAC
Climate Change and Human Development in Africa: Assessing the Risks and Vulnerability of Climate Change in Kenya, Malawi and Ethiopia [2,305 KB]
Human induced climate change emanating largely from increase in the concentration greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and sustainable development are two closely related challenges facing human kind in the 21st century. The challenges associated with the devastating effects of climate change has been addressed by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) which calls for stabilization of the Greenhouse gases (GHGs) emissions in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent ‘dangerous anthropogenic interference’ with climate system, with a time frame sufficient to allow ecosystems and the environment as a whole to adapt naturally to climate change, to ensure that food production is not threatened, and enable economic development to proceed in sustainable manner.

Carvajal, Liliana
Impacts of Climate Change on Human Development [663 KB]
Scientific research throughout the past decades has demonstrated how climatic changes have important impacts on the livelihoods of people around the world. For most of developing countries their level of structural and social vulnerability, are a dangerous combination and a formula for impacts of higher magnitude. Therefore, climatic phenomenon such as tropical storms, floods and droughts, more often become tragedies in these countries. This paper analyzes the impacts of such phenomenon in the human development of people across the world. Some of the climate change related issues analyzed in this parte are: Droughts and water security, tropical cyclones and storms, rising tides, warming seas, coral bleaching, fish stocks, melting glaciers, heat waves and cold spells and the impact on human health are discussed in this paper along with the differentiated impact on countries in various levels human development is also discussed



Human Development Report 2007/2008
Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world
Climate change is the defining human development challenge of the 21st Century. Failure to respond to that challenge will stall and then reverse international efforts to reduce poverty. The poorest countries and most vulnerable citizens will suffer the earliest and most damaging setbacks, even though they have contributed least to the problem. Looking to the future, no country—however wealthy or powerful—will be immune to the impact of global warming.
The Human Development Report 2007/2008 shows that climate change is not just a future scenario. Increased exposure to droughts, floods and storms is already destroying opportunity and reinforcing inequality. Meanwhile, there is now overwhelming scientific evidence that the world is moving towards the point at which irreversible ecological catastrophe becomes unavoidable. Business-as-usual climate change points in a clear direction: unprecedented reversal in human development in our lifetime, and acute risks for our children and their grandchildren.

Human Development Report 2006
Beyond scarcity: power, poverty and the global water crisis
Throughout history water has confronted humanity with some of its greatest challenges. Water is a source of life and a natural resource that sustains our environments and supports livelihoods – but it is also a source of risk and vulnerability. In the early 21st Century, prospects for human development are threatened by a deepening global water crisis. Debunking the myth that the crisis is the result of scarcity, this report argues poverty, power and inequality are at the heart of the problem.

In a world of unprecedented wealth, almost 2 million children die each year for want of a glass of clean water and adequate sanitation. Millions of women and young girls are forced to spend hours collecting and carrying water, restricting their opportunities and their choices. And water-borne infectious diseases are holding back poverty reduction and economic growth in some of the world’s poorest countries.


Human Development Report 2005
International cooperation at a crossroads: Aid, trade and security in an unequal world
This year's Human Development Report takes stock of human development, including progress towards the MDGs. Looking beyond statistics, it highlights the human costs of missed targets and broken promises. Extreme inequality between countries and within countries is identified as one of the main barriers to human development and as a powerful brake on accelerated progress towards the MDGs.


Human Development Report 2004
Cultural Liberty in Today's Diverse World
Accommodating people's growing demands for their inclusion in society, for respect of their ethnicity, religion, and language, takes more than democracy and equitable growth. Also needed are multicultural policies that recognize differences, champion diversity and promote cultural freedoms, so that all people can choose to speak their language, practice their religion, and participate in shaping their culture so that all people can choose to be who they are.

Human Development Report 2003
Millennium Development Goals: A compact among nations to end human poverty

The range of human development in the world is vast and uneven, with astounding progress in some areas amidst stagnation and dismal decline in others. Balance and stability in the world will require the commitment of all nations, rich and poor, and a global development compact to extend the wealth of possibilities to all people.

Human Development Report 2002
Deepening democracy in a fragmented world
This Human Development Report is first and foremost about the idea that politics is as important to successful development as economics. Sustained poverty reduction requires equitable growth-but it also requires that poor people have political power. And the best way to achieve that in a manner consistent with human development objectives is by building strong and deep forms of democratic governance at all levels of society.

Human Development Report 2001
Making new technologies work for human development
Technology networks are transforming the traditional map of development, expanding people's horizons and creating the potential to realize in a decade progress that required generations in the past.

Human Development Report 2000
Human rights and human development
Human Development Report 2000 looks at human rights as an intrinsic part of development and at development as a means to realizing human rights. It shows how human rights bring principles of accountability and social justice to the process of human development.

Human Development Report 1999
Globalization with a Human Face
Global markets, global technology, global ideas and global solidarity can enrich the lives of people everywhere. The challenge is to ensure that the benefits are shared equitably and that this increasing interdependence works for people not just for profits. This year's Report argues that globalization is not new, but that the present era of globalization, driven by competitive global markets, is outpacing the governance of markets and the repercussions on people.

Human Development Report 1998
Consumption for Human Development
The high levels of consumption and production in the world today, the power and potential of technology and information, present great opportunities. After a century of vast material expansion, will leaders and people have the vision to seek and achieve more equitable and more human advance in the 21st century.

Human Development Report 1997
Human Development to Eradicate Poverty
Eradicating poverty everywhere is more than a moral imperative - it is a practical possibility. That is the most important message of the Human Development Report 1997. The world has the resources and the know-how to create a poverty-free world in less than a generation.

Human Development Report 1996
Economic growth and human development
The Report argues that economic growth, if not properly managed, can be jobless, voiceless, ruthless, rootless and futureless, and thus detrimental to human development. The quality of growth is therefore as important as its quantity for poverty reduction, human development and sustainability.

Human Development Report 1995
Gender and human development
The report analyses the progress made in reducing gender disparities in the past few decades and highlights the wide and persistent gap between women's expanding capabilities and limited opportunities. Two new measures are introduced for ranking countries on a global scale by their performance in gender equality and there follows an analysis of the under-valuation and non-recognition of the work of women. In conclusion, the report offers a five-point strategy for equalizing gender opportunities in the decade ahead.

Human Development Report 1994
New dimensions of human security
The report introduces a new concept of human security which equates security with people rather than territories, with development rather than arms. It examines both the national and the global concerns of human security.

Human Development Report 1993
People's Participation
The Report examines how and to what extent people participate in the events and processes that shape their lives. It looks at three major means of peoples' participation: people-friendly markets, decentralised governance and community organisations, especially non-governmental organisations (NGOs), and suggests concrete policy measures to address the growing problems of increasing unemployment.

Human Development Report 1992
Global Dimensions of Human Development
The richest 20% of the population now receives 150 times the income of the poorest 20%. The Report suggests a two-pronged strategy to break away from this situation. First, making massive investments in their people and strengthening national technological capacity can enable some developing countries to acquire a strong competitive edge in international markets (witness the East Asian industrializing tigers). Second, there should be basic international reforms, including restructuring the Bretton Woods institutions and setting up a Development Security Council within the United Nations.

Human Development Report 1991
Financing Human Development
Lack of political commitment rather than financial resources is often the real cause of human development. This is the main conclusion of Human Development Report 1991 - the second in a series of annual reports on the subject.

Human Development Report 1990
Concept and Measurement of human development
The Report addresses, as its main issue , the question of how economic growth translates - or fails to translate - into human development. The focus is on people and on how development enlarges their choices. The Report discusses the meaning and measurement of human development, proposing a new composite index. However, its overall orientation is practical and pragmatic.

Desarrollo Humano y Derechos Humanos en Chile
Jorge Correa Sutil, 2000
UNDP: Informe sobre el desarrollo humano 2002
 
UNDP: Rapport Mondial sur le développement humain 2002

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