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2008 Update
Human Development Indices: A statistical update 2008 was released on 18 December 2008.
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Select background readings
- Human development Index: Methodology and Measurement Sudhir Anand and Amartya K. Sen, 1994
- Human development Index: Methodology and Measurement HDR 1994 [2,242 KB]
- Sustainable Human Development: Concepts and Priorities
Sudhir Anand and Amartya K. Sen, 1994
Read the article online - A Means to Closing Gaps: Disaggregated Human Development Index
A. Halis Akder, 1994
Read the article online - Gender Inequality in Human Development: Theories and Measurement
Sudhir Anand and Amartya Sen, 1995
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Selected chapters and boxes from the Human Development Report
Defining and measuring human development
- HDR 1995, Chapter 3: Measuring gender inequality [Measuring Gender Inequality HDR 1995 [3,604 KB]]
- HDR 1997, Chapter 1: Poverty in the human development perspective: concept and measurement [Poverty in HD Perspective HDR 1997 [2,497 KB]]
- HDR 2000, Box 5.2: The freedom indices [Freedom Indices HDR 2000 [70 KB]]
- HDR 2003, Box 2.7: Disaggregated data within countries [Disaggregated data countries HDR 2003 [114 KB]]
- HDR 2006, Technical note 2: A human development index by income group [HDI by income group HDR 2006 [88 KB]]
Papers presented at the Gender related indices workshop: Special issue of the Journal of Human Development, Volume 7, Number 2 - July 2006.
Papers may be access via: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713431425
- Dana Shuller. The Uses and Misuses of the Gender-related Development Index and Gender Empowerment Measure: A Review of the Literature. pp. 161-181
- Nancy Flobre. Measuring Care: Gender, Empowerment, and the Care Economy. pp. 183-199
- Sylvia Chant. Re-thinking the “Feminization of Poverty” in Relation to Aggregate Gender Indices. pp. 201-220
- Hanny Cueva Beteta. What is missing in measures of Women's Empowerment? pp. 221-241
- Stephan Klasen. UNDP's Gender-related Measures: Some Conceptual Problems and Possible Solutions. pp. 243-274
- A. Geske Dijkstra. Towards a Fresh Start in Measuring Gender Equality: A Contribution to the Debate. pp. 275-283
Other selected references
- Aturupane, H. P. Glewwe and P. Isenman (1994) Poverty, Human Development and Growth: An Emerging Consensus? American Economic Review, 84(2), pp. 244-249.
- Bardhan, Kalpana, and S, Klasen (1999) UNDP’s Gender-Related Indices: A Critical Review. World Development 27(6), pp. 985–1010.
- Jahan, S. (2002) Evolution of the Human Development Index in Readings in Human Development, S. Fukuda-Parr and A.K. Shiva-Kumar eds., Oxford University Press.
- Kelley, A. (1991) The Human Development Index: "Handle with Care”. Population Development Review, 17(2), pp. 315-324.
- Panigrahi, R. and S. Sivramkrishna (2002) An Adjusted Human Development Index: Robust Country Rankings with Respect to the Choice of Fixed Maximum and Minimum Indicator Values. Journal of Human Development. 3(2). pp. 301-311.
- Raworth, K and D. Stewart (2002) Critiques of the Human Development Index: a review in Readings in Human Development, S. Fukuda-Parr and A.K. Shiva-Kumar eds., Oxford University Press.
- Srinivasan, T. N. (1994) Human Development: A New Paradigm or Reinvention of the Wheel? American Economic Review, 84(2), pp. 238-243.
- Streeten, P. (1994) Human Development: Means and Ends, American Economic Review, 84(2), pp. 232-237.
