Human Development Approach and India

Human Development Reports (UNDP), Origins of the Human Development Approach, p. 1, available online at http://hdr.undp.org/en/humandev/origins/accessed on 6th February, 2009 at 10.50 p.m.

Human Development Report 1990, UNDP, Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 1990, (Overview), p. 1, available online at http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/hdr_1990_en_overview.pdf accessed on 10th February, 2009 at 11.41 a.m.

Kundu Amitabh Shariff Abusaleh Ghosh P.K. ‘Indexing Human Development in India: Indicators, Scaling, and Composition’ in Shariff Abusaleh Krishnaraj Maithreyi (eds.), State Markets and Inequalities: Human Development in Rural India, Orient Longman, New Delhi, 2007, p. 44.

Human Development Report 1990, UNDP, Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 1990, Chapter-1 entitled ‘Defining and Measuring Human Development’, available online at http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/hdr_1990_en__chap1.pdf accessed on 10th February, 2009 at 11.46 a.m.

Sen Amartya Dreze Jean India: Development and Participation, Oxford University Press, Oxford and New Delhi, 2002, pp. 34-38.

Human Development - Human Development Reports, UNDP, The Human Development Concept, p. 1, available online at http://hdr.undp.org/en/humandev/accessed on 6th February, 2009 at 10 45 p.m. Also vide Human Development Report 1990, UNDP, Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 1990, Chapter-1 entitled ‘Defining and Measuring Human Development’, available online at http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/hdr_1990_en_chap1.pdf accessed on 10th February, 2009 at 11.46 a.m.

Human Development - Human Development Reports, UNDP, The Human Development Concept, available online at http://hdr.undp.org/en/humandev/accessed on 6th February, 2009 at 10.45 p.m.

Human Development - Human Development Reports, UNDP, p. 1, Origins of the Human Development Approach, available online at http://hdr.undp.org/en/humandev/origins/accessed on 6th February, 2009 at 10.50 p.m.

Human Development Report, 1990 UNDP (Overview (p. 1), Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York available at http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/hdr_1990_en_overview.pdf accessed on 10th February, 2009 at 11.41 a.m.

Human Development Reports (UNDP) - History of the Human Development Report, p. 1, available online at http://hdr.undp.org/en/humandev/reports/accessed on 6th February, 2009 at 10 p.m. For details about the four new composite indices, see Human Development Reports (UNDP) - Human Development Indices, p. 1, available online at http://hdr.undp.org/en/humandev/hdi/accessed on 6th February, 2009 at 10.15 p.m. Also vide the following: (a) Human Development Index (HDI) - Human Development Reports (UNDP) - The Human Development Index, pp1-2, available online at http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/indices/hdi/accessed on 6th February, 2009 at 10.20 p.m. (b) Gender Related Indices (GDI/GEM) - Human Development Reports (UNDP) - Measuring Inequality: Gender-related Development Index (GDI) and Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM), p. 1, available online at http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/indices/gdi_gem/_ accessed on 6th February, 2009 at 10.30 p.m. (c) Human Poverty Index (HPI)- Human Development Reports (UNDP)- The Human Poverty Index (HPI), p. 1, available online at http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/indices/hpi/accessed on 6th February, 2009 at 10.45 p.m.

Kapila Uma Indian Economy: Performance and Policies, Academic Foundation, New Delhi, Eighth Edition, 2008-2009, p. 33.

Ibid, p. 34. Here Kapila refers to the article of Seeta Prabhu K. ‘Human Development Index’, in Basu Kaushik (ed.), Oxford Companion to Economics in India, 2007.

Human Development Reports-Human Development Indices, (UNDP), p. 1, available online at http://hdr.undp.org/en/humandev/hdi accessed on 6th February, 2009 at 10 p.m.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Human Development Reports (UNDP), History of the Human Development Report-The Regional, National and Sub-national Reports, p. 1, available online at http://hdr.undp.org/en/humandev/reports/accessed on 6th February, 2009 at 10 p.m.

Human Development Report, 1991, UNDP, OUP, Oxford and New York, 1991. Also vide Gopal Ji Bhakri Suman (eds.), Human Development in India. Ane Books, New Delhi, 2005, p. 14.

Human Development Reports, 1992, UNDP, OUP, Oxford and New York, 1992. Also vide Gopal Ji Bhakri Suman (eds.), Human Development in India, pp. 14-15.

Human Development Reports, 1993, 1994, 1999 and 2002, UNDP, OUP, Oxford and New York, 1993, 1994, 1999 and 2002. Also vide Gopal Ji Bhakri Suman (eds.), Human Development in India, pp. 14-15.

Human Development Report, 2003, UNDP, OUP, Oxford and New York, 2003, available online at http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr2003/accessed on 20th February, 2009 at 11.44 a.m.

Human Development Report, 2004, UNDP, OUP, Oxford and New York, 2004, available online at http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr2004/accessed on 20th February, 2009 at 11.44 a.m.

Human Development Report, 2006, UNDP, OUP, Oxford and New York, 2006, available online at http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr2006/accessed on 20th February, 2009 at 11.44 a.m.

Human Development Report, 2007/2008, UNDP, OUP, Oxford and New York, 2007/08, available online at http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr2007-2008/accessed on 20th February, 2009 at 11.44 a.m.

Human Development Report, 2009, UNDP, available online at http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr2009/accessed on 13th March, 2009 at 3.16 a.m.

Kapila Uma ‘Indian Economy at Independence’, (Chapter:1), in Kapila Uma (ed.), Indian Economy Since Independence (New Revised Eighteenth Edition 2006-07), Academic Foundation, New Delhi, 2006, p. 29.

Ibid, p. 30.

Deolalikar Anil B. ‘Human Development in India: Past Trends and Future Challenges’, (Chapter-9), in Jha Raghbendra (ed.), The Indian Economy: Sixty Years After Independence, Palgrave Macmillan, USA and UK, 2008, p. 155.

Op. cit. Kapila Uma Indian Economy: Performance and Policies, p. 38.

Ibid, For details vide pp. 38-42.

Mehrotra Santosh Delamonica Enrique Eliminating Human Poverty: Macroeconomic and Social Policies for Equitable Growth, Orient Longman, Hyderabad, 2008, p. xiii.

Op. cit. Deolalikar , p. 176.

Dreze Jean ‘Bangladesh shows the way’, Opinion Page, The Hindu, 17th September, 2004.

Op. cit Deolalikar p. 177. Deolalikar in this context quotes from Jean Dreze’s article, ‘Bangladesh shows the way’, Opinion Page, in The Hindu, 17th September, 2004.

Ibid.

Op. cit. Kapila Uma Indian Economy: Performance and Policies, p. 38. For details also vide The National Human Development Report, 2001, published by the Planning Commission, Government of India, in March 2002, available online at http://www.planningcommission.nic.in/reports/genrep/nhdrep/nhdch1.pdf accessed on 7th March, 2009 at 11.48 a.m.

Ghosal Anupama ‘Gender and Poverty: A Case Study of India’, in Jadavpur Journal of International Relations, Department of International Relations, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, Volume 11-12, 2006-2008, pp. 312-313.

Op. cit. Kapila Uma Indian Economy: Performance and Policies, p. 40.

Ibid, pp. 40-41.

Ibid, p. 41. Also vide Human Development Report 2007/2008- Country Fact Sheets-India available online at http://hdrstats.undp.org/countries/country_fact_sheets/cty_fs_IND.html accessed on 7th March, 2009 at 11.53 a.m.

Op. cit. Kapila Uma Indian Economy: Performance and Policies, p. 42.

Planning Commission’s Report of the Committee on India Vision 2020 and Vision Documents of Some States , Academic Foundation, New Delhi, 2003, pp. 83-84.