n an age when development is charted through graphs, forecasts and statistics, the dominance of quantifiability as the cornerstone of societal progress is nearly unchallenged. From GDP to literacy ...

The obsession with economic output as a measure of human development puts sustainability on the back burner. Researchers can ...

This research uses panel data to explore inferences about human development associated with two different formulations of the Human Development Index (HDI). The first is the standard HDI as computed ...

Each year, the United Nations Development Program produces the Human Development Report. This is a compilation of country-level data around education, health, and economic security that aspires to ...

Composite indicators have become an indispensable tool to synthesise multifaceted data into a single, interpretable metric for assessing human development. The construction of these indicators ...

Srilanka, May 8 -- Sri Lanka ranks 89th among the 193 countries featured in the 2025 Human Development Index (HDI) released recently by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Sri Lanka leads ...

Pakistan Economic and Social Review, Vol. 57, No. 2 (Winter 2019), pp. 221-240 (20 pages) The welfare of human-beings serves as a catalyst for laying down the foundation of an egalitarian social order ...

Deputy Premier and Minister of Health and Population Khaled Abdel Ghaffar chaired a meeting of the ministerial group for human development on Monday, September 8th, 2025, bringing together top ...