Question

Human development index was development by

Answer 1

The origins of the Human Development Index (HDI) are found in the annual human development reports of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). These were devised and launched by Pakistani economist Mahbub-ul-Haq in 1990.

To produced the Human Development Reports, Mahbub-ul-Haq brought together a group of well-known development economists including Paul Streeten, Frances Stewart, Gustav Ranis, Keith Griffin, Sudhir Anand and Meghnad Desai. But it was Nobel laureate Amartya Sen’s work on capabilities and functioning that provided the underlying conceptual framework.

The term ‘human development’ is a corollary of ‘development’ in the index. The UNDP published its first HDR in 1990.