Human Development in an Unequal World
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9780199490240
Publication date:
05/02/2019
Hardback
400 pages
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ISBN:
9780199490240
Publication date:
05/02/2019
Hardback
400 pages
K. Seeta Prabhu and Sandhya S. Iyer
Human Development in an Unequal World offers an integrated understanding of the importance of capabilities, freedoms, and human flourishing in the process of development. It deals with the twenty-first-century challenges of unstable economic growth and sustainability and the re-emergence of deprivations and inequalities in multiple realms and argues that the broader perspective of human development is most suited in reorienting development towards a more equitable, sustainable, and empowering world.
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K. Seeta Prabhu and Sandhya S. Iyer
Description
Human Development in an Unequal World deals with the twenty-first-century challenges of unstable economic growth and sustainability and the re-emergence of deprivations and inequalities in multiple realms. It argues that the broader perspective of human development is most suited in reorienting development towards a more equitable, sustainable, and empowering world.
The authors discuss the concept and philosophy of the capabilities and human development approach, its measurement, the links between economic growth and human development, and the role of social sector policy, gender equality, and securing sustainability. In doing so, they analyse frameworks, processes, institutions, and actors, and weave together concepts, methods, and evidence from numerous developing countries. The chapters offer an integrated understanding of the importance of capabilities, freedoms, and human flourishing in the process of development. This volume calls for an approach that focuses on the humanness of development and brings people back to the centre stage—a phenomenon that has receded to the background in the neoliberal era.
About the Author
Seeta Prabhu is a development economist and was Tata Chair Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India, and head, Human Development Resource Centre, UNDP, India.
Sandhya S. Iyer is associate professor and chairperson, Centre for Public Policy, Habitat and Human Development, School of Development Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India.
K. Seeta Prabhu and Sandhya S. Iyer
Table of contents
List of Boxes, Figures, and Tables
List of Abbreviations
Preface
- Introduction
- The Concept
- Human Flourishing and Well-Being
- Measuring Human Progress
- Economic Growth and Human Development: Evidence of Muddled Pathways
- Social Sectors in Human Development
- Deprivation and Distribution
- Gender and Human Development
- Sustainability: Securing the Present and the Future
- Epilogue
Annexure A: Critical Reflections on Values That Shaped
Contemporary Approaches to Development
Annexure B: Discussion on Development Paradigms
Annexure C: Tracing Women-Centric Explanations in
Various Development Approaches
Annexure D: Setting the Global Agenda for an Equitable
World: Then and Now
Name Index
Subject Index
About the Authors
K. Seeta Prabhu and Sandhya S. Iyer
K. Seeta Prabhu and Sandhya S. Iyer
Description
Human Development in an Unequal World deals with the twenty-first-century challenges of unstable economic growth and sustainability and the re-emergence of deprivations and inequalities in multiple realms. It argues that the broader perspective of human development is most suited in reorienting development towards a more equitable, sustainable, and empowering world.
The authors discuss the concept and philosophy of the capabilities and human development approach, its measurement, the links between economic growth and human development, and the role of social sector policy, gender equality, and securing sustainability. In doing so, they analyse frameworks, processes, institutions, and actors, and weave together concepts, methods, and evidence from numerous developing countries. The chapters offer an integrated understanding of the importance of capabilities, freedoms, and human flourishing in the process of development. This volume calls for an approach that focuses on the humanness of development and brings people back to the centre stage—a phenomenon that has receded to the background in the neoliberal era.
About the Author
Seeta Prabhu is a development economist and was Tata Chair Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India, and head, Human Development Resource Centre, UNDP, India.
Sandhya S. Iyer is associate professor and chairperson, Centre for Public Policy, Habitat and Human Development, School of Development Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India.
Read MoreTable of contents
List of Boxes, Figures, and Tables
List of Abbreviations
Preface
- Introduction
- The Concept
- Human Flourishing and Well-Being
- Measuring Human Progress
- Economic Growth and Human Development: Evidence of Muddled Pathways
- Social Sectors in Human Development
- Deprivation and Distribution
- Gender and Human Development
- Sustainability: Securing the Present and the Future
- Epilogue
Annexure A: Critical Reflections on Values That Shaped
Contemporary Approaches to Development
Annexure B: Discussion on Development Paradigms
Annexure C: Tracing Women-Centric Explanations in
Various Development Approaches
Annexure D: Setting the Global Agenda for an Equitable
World: Then and Now
Name Index
Subject Index
About the Authors
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