Reflections on Human Development

✍ Scribed by Mahbub ul Haq

• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 276
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This work explores a new development paradigm whose central focus is on human well-being. Increase in income is treated as an essential means, but not as the end of development, and certainly not as the sum of human life. Development policies and strategies are discussed which link economic growth with human lives in various societies. The book also analyzes the evolution of a new Human Development Index which is a far more comprehensive measure of socio-economic progress of nations than the traditional measure of Gross National Product. For the first time, a Political Freedom Index is also presented.The book offers a new vision of human security for the twenty-first century where real security is equated with security of people in their homes, their jobs, their communities, and their environment. The book discusses many concrete proposals in this context, including a global compact to overcome the worst aspects of global poverty within a decade, key reforms in the Bretton Woods institutions of World Bank and IMF, and establishment of a new Economic Security Council within the United Nations.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Foreword......Page 10
Preface......Page 20
Part I: Towards a New Development Paradigm......Page 24
1. The Missing People in Development Planning......Page 26
2. The Human Development Paradigm......Page 36
3. The Advent of the Human Development Report......Page 47
4. The Birth of the Human Development Index......Page 69
5. The Design of a Political Freedom Index......Page 90
6. A Framework for Sustainable Development......Page 99
7. Human Development Strategies in South Asia......Page 116
8. Human Development Potential in the Islamic World......Page 128
Part II: Towards a New International Dialogue......Page 136
9. New Imperatives of Human Security......Page 138
10. What Happened to the Peace Dividend?......Page 149
11. A New Framework of Development Cooperation......Page 157
12. The Myth of the Friendly Markets......Page 163
13. Policy Direction of the World Bank......Page 170
14. Bretton Woods Institutions in Global Governance......Page 187
15. A New 20:20 Global Compact for Basic Social Services......Page 201
16. An Economic Security Council......Page 209
17. A New Global Vision......Page 223
Statistical Annex: Human Development Profile of Nations......Page 228
Selected Bibliography......Page 260