Twenty years after the UNDP published its first Human Development Report (HDR), it is plain that those ideas have been deeply influential and powerful. Yet, precisely because of that influence, the HDR’s Human Development Index now looks stale and in need of review. This paper argues the case for an Enhanced Human Development Index, to maintain a more coherent alternative to the Millennium Development Goals, or their successors.
2009 The case for an enhanced human development index PDF
Paper for LaTrobe University MDGs conference, 1 December 2009