Paper prepared for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Human Development Report 1992. The purposes of this short monograph are, first, to introduce the general reader to the basic concepts of human development, seen as an all-embracing strategy of development, and, second, to devise...

This section tries to explain the global progress, local variability and lack of systematic relationship between economic growth and progress in other dimensions of human development, emphasizing the importance of ideas and technologies. Money matters, but the facts clearly show that it is...