28 HUMAN DEVELOPMENT Notes

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MODULE - 9Human resourcedevelopment in IndiaNotes 285Human DevelopmentGEOGRAPHY28HUMAN DEVELOPMENTWhenever, we think about DEVELOPMENT , we normally tend to think about thematerial and economic DEVELOPMENT . Materials may include house, landed prop-erty, motor vehicle, jewellery etc. Again all these material assets are converted interms of money, whenever or wherever the need arises. Till today, the entireworld is divided into two groups of countries - developed and developing. Thisclassification is mostly based on level of economic DEVELOPMENT . Though thistrend is still continuing but a change in thinking about DEVELOPMENT was intro-duced and that was a change in emphasis on measurement of DEVELOPMENT frompurely economic to HUMAN .

1990 onwards, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), each year calculate Human Development Index (HDI) and publish as a report which is known as Human Development Report (HDR). This report, is published each year in which almost all the countries are placed under three categories, high, medium and low based on the defined parameters.

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