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 . In 1990 two economists - Prof.

picture of human development rather to provide a measure which goes beyond the traditional measurement of development i.e income. Therefore, HDI is a ba-rometer for changes in human well-being and for comparing progress in different regions. Human development concept is based on the idea of development as a freedom.

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