Advancing Human Development
Theory and Practice
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 1 March 2018
- ISBN 9780198794455
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages306 pages
- Size 242x163x26 mm
- Weight 634 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Human Development is a prime goal of many development strategies. This book explains what Human Development is, and how it emerged from previous development methods. By exploring developments over the last forty years, it explains what makes for success and failure, and how progress has been made across the globe.
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Human Development has been advocated as the prime development goal since 1990, when the publication of the first UNDP Human Development Report proposed that development should improve the lives people lead in multiple dimensions instead of primarily pursuing economic growth. This approach forms the foundation of Advancing Human Development: Theory and Practice. It traces the evolution of approaches to development, showing how the Human Development approach emerged as a consequence of defects in earlier strategies.
Advancing Human Development argues that Human Development is superior to measures of societal happiness. It investigates the determinants of success and failure in Human Development across countries over the past forty years, taking a multidimensional approach to point to the importance of social institutions and social capabilities as essential aspects of change. It analyses political conditions underlying the performance of Human Development, and surveys global progress in multiple dimensions such as life expectancy, infant mortality, and education and outcomes, whilst reflecting on dimensions which have worsened over time, such as rising inequality and declining environmental conditions. These deteriorating conditions inform Advancing Human Development's account of the challenges to the Human Development approach, covering the insufficient attention paid to macroeconomic conditions and the economic structure needed for sustained success.
Table of Contents:
The evolution of development thought: from growth to Human Development
Should happiness or Human Development be the main development objective?
The relationship between Human Development and economic growth
Success and failure in Human Development, 1980-2014
Successful transition towards a virtuous cycle of Human Development and economic growth: country studies
Human Development: beyond the HDI
Capabilities and Human Development: beyond the individual - the critical role of social institutions and social capabilities
The politics of progress in Human Development
Achievements, challenges and the way forward
