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Agenda:
• Human Development Concept
• HDI History, Meaning and
• HDI and its related indices
• Calculation of HDI
• Link between Economic Growth & Human
Development
• Planning in terms of Human Development
• HDI - India
• HDI - Critics
Human Development is necessary
because:
• Human Development is an end while
economic growth is only a means to it
• It is a means to higher productivity
• Helps in lowering family size
• It is good for the physical environment
• It reduces poverty and contributes to a
healthy civil society, increased democracy and
Essential components of Human
Development:
• Equity - People must enjoy equitable access
to opportunities
• Sustainability – The next generation must
enjoy the same well being that we enjoy
• Productivity – Requires investment in people
and enabling micro-environment for them
• Empowerment – It means people are in a
• An alternate to GNP - measure of nation’s
human development
HPI
measure of agency
three dimensions
achievement
index
• The last group of critics refers to the
(McGillivray)1991