Human Development Reports - United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Select background readings

• Designing the Inequality-Adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI) Sabina Alkire and James Foster, 2010.
• Acute Multidimensional Poverty: A New Index for Developing Countries Sabina Alkire, 2010.
• Advances in sub-national measurement of the human development index: the case of Mexico, Rodolfo de la Tore, 2010.
• A household-based Human Development Index, Stephan Klasen and Kenneth Harttgen, 2010.
• Birth Satisfaction Units (BSU): Measuring cross national well-being. Lant Pritchett, 2010.
• Measuring gender inequality and women’s empowerment: Alternative measures to the GEM and GDI. Amie Gaye, Liliana Carvajal, Milorad Kovacevic and Beth Daponte, 2010.
• Human development categories and rankings: Robustness and reliability. Milorad Kovacevic, 2010.
• A review of conceptual and measurement innovations in national and regional Human Development Reports, 1998 to 2010. Amie Gaye and Shreyasi Jha, 2010.
• Beyond HDI: A review of dimensions and indicators. Emma Samman, 2010.
• Happiness: A critical Survey. Emma Samman, 2010.
• Review of critique of HDI and potential improvement. Milorad Kovacevic, 2010.
• Measurement of inequality in human development: A review. Milorad Kovacevic, 2010.
• Handbook of Human Development – Concepts, measures and policies. Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and A.K. Shiva Kumar 2009
• Human development Index: Methodology and Measurement Sudhir Anand and Amartya K. Sen, 1994
• Human development Index: Methodology and Measurement HDR 1994 [2,242 KB]
• Sustainable Human Development: Concepts and Priorities Sudhir Anand and Amartya K. Sen, 1994
• A Means to Closing Gaps: Disaggregated Human Development Index A. Halis Akder, 1994
• Gender Inequality in Human Development: Theories and Measurement Sudhir Anand and Amartya Sen, 1995

Selected chapters and boxes from the Human Development Report

Defining and measuring human development

• HDR 2011 The HDI 2010: New Controversies, Old Critiques [740 KB]
• HDR 2011 Inequality Decomposition without Income or Expenditure Data: Using an Asset Index to Simulate Household Income [431 KB]
• HDR 2010 Refining the Human Development Index [76 KB]
• HDR 2009 Box 1.2: How movement matters to the measurement of progress [76 KB]
• HDI 2008 Box 2: The robustness of HDI country ranks to changes in weights [87 KB]
• HDI 2008 Chapter 4: Measuring Inequalities in income and gender [205 KB]
• HDR 2009 Box 1.2: How movement matters to the measurement of progress [76 KB]
• HDR 2006, Technical note 2: HDI by income group HDR 2006 [88 KB]
• HDR 2003, Box 2.7: Disaggregated data countries HDR 2003 [114 KB]
• HDR 2000, Box 5.2: Freedom Indices HDR 2000 [70 KB]
• HDR 1997, Chapter 1: Poverty in HD Perspective HDR 1997 [2 497 KB]
• HDR 1995, Chapter 3: Measuring Gender Inequality HDR 1995 [3 604 KB]

Papers presented at the Gender related indices workshop: Special issue of the Journal of Human Development, Volume 7, Number 2 - July 2006.

Papers may be access via:
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713431425

• Dana Shuller. The Uses and Misuses of the Gender-related Development Index and Gender Empowerment Measure: A Review of the Literature. pp. 161-181 
• Nancy Flobre. Measuring Care: Gender, Empowerment, and the Care Economy. pp. 183-199
• Sylvia Chant. Re-thinking the “Feminization of Poverty” in Relation to Aggregate Gender Indices. pp. 201-220
• Hanny Cueva Beteta. What is missing in measures of Women's Empowerment? pp. 221-241
• Stephan Klasen. UNDP's Gender-related Measures: Some Conceptual Problems and Possible Solutions. pp. 243-274
• A. Geske Dijkstra. Towards a Fresh Start in Measuring Gender Equality: A Contribution to the Debate. pp. 275-283

Other selected references

• Aturupane, H. P. Glewwe and P. Isenman (1994) Poverty, Human Development and Growth: An Emerging Consensus? American Economic Review, 84(2), pp. 244-249.
• Bardhan, Kalpana, and S, Klasen (1999) UNDP’s Gender-Related Indices: A Critical Review. World Development 27(6), pp. 985–1010.
• Gray Molina, George and Yañez, Eduardo (2009) The moving middle: migration, place premiums and human development in Bolivia. Human Development Research Paper 2009/46.
• Grimm, M., K. Harttgen, S.Klasen and M. Misselhorn, T. Munzi and T. Smeeding (2007). A Human Development Index by Income groups Extension. University of Gottingen. July 2007Grimm, M., K. Harttgen, S.Klasen and M. Misselhorn (2008). A Human Development Index by Income groups. World Development, published online. Doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2007.12.001.
• Harttgen, Kenneth and Klasen, Stephan (2009), A Human Development Index by Internal Migrational Status. Human Development Research Paper 2009/54.
• Jahan, S. (2002) Evolution of the Human Development Index in Readings in Human Development, S. Fukuda-Parr and A.K. Shiva-Kumar eds., Oxford University Press.
• Kelley, A. (1991) The Human Development Index: "Handle with Care”. Population Development Review, 17(2), pp. 315-324.
• Klasen, S. and D. Schuler (2007). Reforming the gender-related development index (GDI) and the gender empowerment measure (GEM): implementing some of the proposals. University of Gottingen. July 2007.
• Panigrahi, R. and S. Sivramkrishna (2002) An Adjusted Human Development Index: Robust Country Rankings with Respect to the Choice of Fixed Maximum and Minimum Indicator Values. Journal of Human Development. 3(2). pp. 301-311.
• Martin Ravallion (1997) Good and Bad Growth: The Human Development Reports, World Development, Vol. 25 (May), pp. 631-38.
• Ortega, Daniel (2009) Human Development of Peoples. Human Development Research Paper 2009/49.
• Raworth, K and D. Stewart (2002) Critiques of the Human Development Index: a review in Readings in Human Development, S. Fukuda-Parr and A.K. Shiva-Kumar eds., Oxford University Press.
• Srinivasan, T. N. (1994) Human Development: A New Paradigm or Reinvention of the Wheel? American Economic Review, 84(2), pp. 238-243.
• Streeten, P. (1994) Human Development: Means and Ends, American Economic Review, 84(2), pp. 232-237.
• Wolfers, Justin (2009). “Another Perspective on the Human Development Index”. New York Times Blog: Freakonomics. May 22 and Response from HDRO’s Head of research Francisco Rodriguez. June 1, 2009.

Reports

• Report of the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress (Sarkozy Commission) released September 2009.

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