Economic Growth Contributes Most To Poverty Reduction When It Expands The Employment, Productivity And Wages Of Poor People And When Public Resources Are Channeled To Promoting Human Development.
Human
Development In India
Measures
of human development
Economic Growth Contributes Most
To Poverty Reduction When It Expands The Employment, Productivity And Wages Of
Poor People And When Public Resources Are Channeled To Promoting Human
Development. A Virtuous Cycle Of Economic Growth And Human Development Arise
When Growth Is Labour Using And Employment Generating And When Human Skills And
Health Improve Rapidly.
Income, clearly, is only one
option that people would like to have, though an important one. But it is not
the sum total of their lives. Income is also a means, with which human
development meets the end. Ever since the publication of the human development
report 1990, efforts have been made to devise and further refine measures of
human developments. Three measures have been developed. They are human
development index (HDI), gender related development index (GDI) and human
poverty index (HDI).*For 1994 – 95 using $ 11 a day
(1994 PPP US $) Note: countries have been arranged in the descending order on the basis of HDI Source: Compiled From UNDP, Human Development Report 2004. Human Development Index
Hdi measures the average achievement in three basic
dimensions of human development: - A long and healthy life as measured by life
expectancy at birth
- Knowledge as measured by the
adult literacy rate (with two third weight) and the combined primary, secondary
and tertiary gross enrolment ratio (with one third weight)
- A decent standard of living as measured by GDP per
capita (PPP US $)
Before calculating hdi, an index
for each of the three dimensions is created,
The hdi is calculated as a simple
average of the dimension indices. The table indicates human development index
for 2002 for selected countries as reported in HDR 2004. Countries have been
grouped under three categories: - Countries in the HDI range 0.8
And above are in the high human development group
- Countries in the HDI range 0.5 To
0.8 Are in the range of medium human development group
- Countries in the HDI range less
than 0.5 Are in the low human development group
The data has been collected for 177 countries.
Among them 55 countries were in the high human development range, 86 countries
were in medium human development range and 36 countries were in low human
development range. India, which was at no.138 In hdi in 1994, has improved its
position to no.127 In 2002.
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