The 20th Human Development Report has introduced a new version of its famous Human Development Index (HDI). The HDI aggregates country-level attainments in life expectancy, schooling and income per capita. Each year's rankings by the HDI are keenly watched in both rich and poor countries. The...

Countries are increasingly being ranked by some new "mashup index of development," defined as a composite index for which existing theory and practice provides little or no guidance to its design. Thus the index has an unusually large number of moving parts, which the producer is essentially...

Inclusive growth is a buzz-word in policy circles nowadays, among developed and developing countries. In India from 11th Five year planning onward inclusive growth has become the priority of the government. Mere increase in GDP growth has not achieved the targets of Indian planning like poverty...

Measuring gender inequality and women's empowerment is essential to understand the determinants of gender gaps, evaluate policies and monitor countries' progress. With this aim, over the past two decades, research has mainly been directed towards the development of composite indices. The purpose...

Both indigenous peoples and the capability approach (CA) take a holistic view on development and stress the multiple dimension of development as the expansion of people's well-being including social, cultural and spiritual elements. The paper investigates to what extent the capability approach...

"... provides guidance to national statistical offices on producing statistics for SDGs. It lays out what needs to be done, who is to do what and when, who are the stakeholders, and what are the opportunities for cooperation. The Road Map deals with establishing national indicators, providing...

Do World Bank policy loans that are focused on social policy reform help improve social policies and institutions in borrower countries? To help answer this question, this paper provides new empirical evidence of the association between World Bank policy lending and measures of the quality of...

The present paper is a review of methodological advancements in human development literature starting from 1990 till date. While highlighting the contribution of UNDP to the concept of human development and construction of HDI it mentions that the introduced concept and method of measurement is...