Handbook of Human Development

Sakiko Fukuda-Parr is Visiting Professor, New Schools Graduate Program in International Affairs, Harvard University; AK Shiva Kumar Advisor to UNICEF, India and member of National Advisory Council

PREFACE;FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION ; I. CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS ; 1.1 Development as Capability Expansion ; 1.2 The Human Development Paradigm; ; 1.3. Human Capital and Human capability; ; 1.4. The Concept of human poverty ; 1.5. Human Rights and Human Development ; 1.6. Choices that Shaped the Human Development Report ; 1.7 Shifting Fashions in Development Dialogue ; 1.8 Human Development and Neo-Liberalism: Paradigms Compared ; 1.9 Rescuing the Human Development Concept from the HDI Reflections on a new agenda; II. Measurement ; 2.1 The Birth of Human Development Index ; 2.2 Human Development Index: Methodology and Measurement ; 2.3 Evolution of Human Development Index ; 2.4 Critiques of the Human Development Index: A Review ; 2.5 Using the HDI for Policy Analysis ; 2.6 Measuring Political Freedom ; 2.7 Gender Inequality in Human Development: Theories and Measurement ; 2.8 Concepts of Human Development and Poverty: A Multidimensional Perspective ; 2.9 A Technical Note: Calculating the Human Development Indices; ; III. SOME POLICY EXPLORATIONS ; 3.1 Financing Human Development ; 3.2 Valuing Women's Work ; 3.3 Growth for Human Development ; 3.4 The Politics of Poverty Eradication ; 3.5 Unequal Human Impacts of Environmental Damage ; 3.6 The Invisible Heart: Care and the Global Economy ; 3.7 Inclusive Democracy Secures Rights ; IV. NEW FRONTIERS ; 4.1 Global Initiatives to Create Technologies for Human Development ; 4.2 Deepening Democracy by Tackling Democratic Deficits ; 4.3 Cultural Liberty and Human Development ; 4.4 Building Multicultural Democracy ; ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS