Subject(s): Economic development -- Social aspects -- Methodology -- Human capital -- Quality of life -- Social accounting -- Conceptual foundations : Development as capability expansion, human development paradigm, human capital and human capability, concept of human poverty, human rights and human development, choices that shaped the human development reports, shifting fashions in development dialogue, human development and neo-liberalism, paradigms and compare, rescuing the human development concept from the HDI- reflecting on a new agenda -- Measurement : Birth of the human development index, human development index- methodology and measurement, evolution of the human development index, critiques of the human development index, using the HDI for policy analysis, measuring political freedom, gender inequality in human development- theories and measurement, concepts of human development and poverty- multidimensional perspective, technical note- calculating the human development indices -- Some policy explorations : Financing human development, valuing women's work, growth for human development, politics of poverty eradication, unequal human impacts of environmental damage, invisible heart- care and global economy, inclusive democracy secures rights