Readings in Human Development Concepts, Measures, and Policies for a Development Paradigm

by Fukuda-Parr, Sakiko; Kumar, A. K. Shiva; Sen, Amartya

• ISBN13: 9780195664058
• ISBN10: 0195664051
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-05-08
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This volume brings together the collection of papers that have shaped the human development approach with its set of concepts, measurement tools and policy perspectives. The book is divided into three sections:- conceptual foundations comprising classic papers by Sen, Haq, and Streetan measurement which discusses the methodology for constructing the human development index and other aspects such as political freedom, gender inequality and poverty- policy explorations which includes a collection of articles from previous reports An essential reader for students, researchers and policy-makers, this book is an invaluable resource.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Mark Malloch Brown
Foreword	vii
Amartya Sen
Acknowledgements	xv
Contributors	xvii
Common Abbreviations	xix
Introduction	xxi
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
A. K. Shiva Kumar
Section 1: Conceptual foundations
Development as capability expansion	3	(14)
Amartya Sen
The human development paradigm	17	(18)
Mahbub ul Haq
Human capital and human capability	35	(3)
Amartya Sen
The concept of human poverty	38	(10)
Human Development Reports 1997, 1998
Human rights and human development	48	(13)
Human Development Report 2000
Choices that shaped the Human Development Reports	61	(7)
Inge Kaul
Shifting fashions in development dialogue	68	(14)
Paul Streeten
Human development and neo-liberalism: paradigms compared	82	(11)
Richard Jolly
Rescuing the human development concept from the HDI: reflections on a new agenda	93	(10)
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
Section 2: Measurement
The birth of the human development index	103	(11)
Mahbub ul Haq
Human development index: methodology and measurement	114	(14)
Sudhir Anand
Amartya Sen
Evolution of the human development index	128	(12)
Selim Jahan
Critiques of the human development index: a review	140	(13)
Kate Raworth
David Stewart
Using the HDI for policy analysis	153	(11)
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
Kate Raworth
A. K. Shiva Kumar
Measuring political freedom	164	(22)
Meghnad Desai
Gender inequality in human development: theories and measurement	186	(18)
Sudhir Anand
Amartya Sen
Concepts of human development and poverty: a multidimensional perspective	204	(17)
Sudhir Anand
Amartya Sen
A technical note: calculating the human development indices	221	(12)
Human Development Report 2002
Section 3: Some policy explorations
Financing human development	233	(30)
Human Development Report 1991
Valuing women's work	263	(16)
Human Development Report 1995
Growth for human development?	279	(12)
Human Development Report 1996
The politics of poverty eradication	291	(17)
Human Development Report 1997
Unequal human impacts of environmental damage	308	(28)
Human Development Report 1998
The invisible heart -- care and the global economy	336	(9)
Human Development Report 1999
Inclusive democracy secures rights	345	(24)
Human Development Report 2000
About the contributors	369