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    The document outlines a learning objectives and introduction to human development. It discusses the origin of the human development approach as emerging in response to the human costs of 1980s structural adjustment policies. The concept was proposed by UNDP and developed by Mahbub ul Haq and Amartya Sen, building on ideas from Aristotle and Kant. By 1990, when the first Human Development Report was released, consensus had been built around the human development concept.

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    The document outlines a learning objectives and introduction to human development. It discusses the origin of the human development approach as emerging in response to the human costs of 1980s structural adjustment policies. The concept was proposed by UNDP and developed by Mahbub ul Haq and Amartya Sen, building on ideas from Aristotle and Kant. By 1990, when the first Human Development Report was released, consensus had been built around the human development concept.

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    HUMAN DEVELOPMENT:

    CONCEPT & APPROACH

    K Seeta Prabhu
    Tata Institute of Social Sciences

    Strengthening Capacity on Human Development in Asia-Pacific:


    Analysis, Measurement and Processes
    New Delhi, 29-30 October 2013
    LEARNING OBJECTIVES
    • Human Development: Origin and Context
    • Functionings and Capability
    • Human Development and Related Approaches
    • Human Development Principles
    • Characteristics of HD Approach
    ORIGIN OF THE HD APPROACH
    • Emerged in response to demand for newer
    approaches to development
    • Context the huge human costs of structural
    adjustment policies of 1980s
    • Process concept discussed at 3 North-South Round
    Tables organised by Mahbub ul Haq in 1980s
    • Proposed by UNDP with Mahbub ul Haq and
    Amartya Sen as main architects – origins in writings
    of Aristotle and Immanuel Kant
    • By 1990 when concept made official debut in
    Inaugural HDR, consensus on concept already built

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