CONTENTS: Introduction by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and A. K. Shiva Kumar xxi Section 1: Conceptual foundations 1.1Development as capability expansion 3 Amartya Sen (1989) 1.2The human development paradigm 17 Mahbub ulHaq (1995) 1.3Human capital and human capability 35 Amartya Sen (1997) 1.4The concept of human poverty 38 Human Development Reports 1997, 1998 1.5Human rights and human development 48 Human Development Report 2000 1.6Economic growth and human development 61 Gustav Ranis, Frances Stewart andAlejandro Ramirez (2000) 1.7Choices that shaped the Human Development Reports 85 Inge Kaul (2002) 1.8Shifting fashions in development dialogue 92 Paul Streeten (2003) 1.9Human development and neo-liberalism: paradigms compared 106 Richard olly (2002) 1.10 Rescuing the human development concept from the HDI: reflections on a new agenda 117 Sakiko Fukuda-Parr (2002) Section 2: Measurement 2.1The birth of the human development index 127 Mahbub ulHaq (1995) 2.2Human development index: methodology and measurement 138 SudhirAnandandAmartya Sen (1994) 2.3Evolution of the human development index 152 Selim Jahan (2002) 2.4Critiques of the human development index: a review 164 Kate Raworth and David Stewart (2002) 2.5Using the HDI for policy analysis 177 Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Kate Raworth, and A. K Shiva Kumar (2002) 2.6Measuring political freedom 188 MeghnadDesai (1994) 2.7Gender inequality in human development: theories and measurement 210 SudhirAnandandAmartya Sen (1995) 2.8Concepts of human development and poverty: a multidimensional perspective228 SudhirAnandandAmartya Sen (1997) 2.9A technical note: calculating the human development indices 245 Human Development Report 2002 Section 3: Some policy explorations 3.1Financing human development 257 Human Development Report 1991 3.2Valuing women's work 287 Human Development Report 1995 3.3Growth for human development? 303 Human Development Report 1996 3.4The politics of poverty eradication 315 Human Development Report 1997 3.5Unequal human impacts of environmental damage 332 Human Development Report 1998 3.6The invisible heart - care and the global economy 360 Human Development Report 1999 3.7Inclusive democracy secures rights 369 Human Development Report 2000 Section 4: New frontiers 4.1Global initiatives to create technologies for human development 395 Human Development Report 2001 4.2Deepening democracy by tackling democratic deficits 428 Human Development Report 2002 4.3Cultural liberty and human development 463 Human Development Report 2004 4.4Building multicultural democracies 478 Human Development Report 2004