An Introduction to Human Development and Capability Approach

Contents: 1. A normative framework for development. 2. The human development and capability approach. 3. Ideas related to human development. 4. Economic growth. 5. Equality and justice. 6. Poverty and inequality measurement.

The word development has as many meanings as there are listeners. For some development means more material prosperity: owning money, land and a house. For others, development concerns liberation from oppression. Some see development as a new word for neo-colonialism and despise it. For still others development is a holistic project of personal social and spiritual progress. (jacket)