In 1990 UNDP published its first Human Development Report,with its newly devised Human Development Index. The premise of the HDI, considered radical at the time, was elegantly simple: national development should be measured not simply by national income, as had long been the practice, but also by life expectancy and literacy.The new HDI had its shortcomings, as the Report’s authors forthrightly acknowledged, including a reliance on national averages, which concealed skewed distribution, and the absence of “a quantitative measure of human freedom.
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Progress Report
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Keywords:
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT,HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX, GENDER INEQUALITY
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UNDP
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Social and Institutional Developoment
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- Political Conditions, Institutions, Movements
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