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.

Advancing Human Development: Theory and Practice

Business & Money

Stewart, Frances

Ranis, Gustav

Samman, Emma

Economics

Oxford University Press

Comparative Development Perspectives

Routledge

Science And Technology: Lessons For Development Policy

Evenson, Robert

Science & Math

The Taiwan Success Story: Rapid Growith With Improved Distribution In The Republic Of China, 19521979

Kuo, Shirley W Y

Reference

This book brings together an international team of contributors to assess the political economy of the IMF and World Bank programs. Contributors include Stephen Coate, Stephen Morris, Ravi Kanbur and Allen Drazen.

Globalization and the Nation State: The Impact of the IMF and the World Bank (Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy)

Kosack, Stephen

Vreeland, James

Globalization and Self-Determination (Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy)

Is the nation state under siege? A common answer is that globalization poses two fundamental threats to state sovereignty. The first concerns the unleashing of centrifugal and centripetal forces - such as increasing market integration and the activities of institutions like the IMF, World Bank, and WTO - that imperil state sovereignty from 'outside' the nation state. The second threat emanates from self-determination movements that jeopardize state sovereignty from 'inside'. Rigorously analyzing popular hypotheses on globalization's effect on state sovereignty from a broad social sciences perspective, the authors use empirical evidence to suggest that globalization's multilevel threats to state sovereignty have been overestimated. In most instances globalization is likely to generate pressure for increased government spending while only one form of market integration - foreign direct investment by multinational enterprises - appears to increase any feeling of economic insecurity. This volume will be invaluable to course instructors at both graduate and undergraduate levels, policy makers and members of the general public who are concerned about the effects of globalization on the nation-state.

Globalization and Self-Determination: Is the Nation-State Under Siege? (Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy)

Cameron, David R.

Zinn, Annalisa

Japan and the Developing Countries: A Comparative Analysis

Ohkawa, Kazushi

Blackwell Pub.

Macro Policies For Appropriate Technology In Developing Countries (Westview Special Studies in Social, Political, and Economic Development)

Kaplinsky, Raphael

Rudra, Ashok

Maxwell, Philip

Westview Press

Looking at examples of East Asian development and pointing out the commonalities behind differing policies, goals, and cultural and economic systems, the authors draw on developments in technology choice, technological change, institutions and human resources.

Science And Technology: Lessons For Development Policy (WESTVIEW SPECIAL STUDIES IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND PUBLIC POLICY)

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