HUMAN 
DEVELOPMENT
REPORT
1990

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CONCEPT AND MEASUREMENT OF
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

 
The Report addresses, as its main issue , the question of how economic  growth translates - or fails to translate - into human development. The focus is on people and on how development enlarges their choices. The
Report discusses the meaning and measurement of human development,  proposing a new composite index. But its overall orientation is practical  and pragmatic. It summarises the record of human development over the  past three decades, and it analyses the experience of 14 countries in  managing economic growth in the interest of the broadest possible number of people. With this as its foundation, the Report then sets forth  strategies for human development in the 1990s, emphasising the importance of restructuring budgetary expenditures, including military
expenditures, and creating an international economic and financial environment conducive to human development.