8A.1 - Human Development

• Measuring human development


  • Traditionally measured by economic factors, but links to wellbeing are complex
  • GDP
  • GDP per capita
  • HDI
  • HPI
  • Gini coefficient
• USA


  • GDP - $25 trillion (1st)
  • HDI - 0.927 (20th)
  • HPI - 32.1 (102nd)
• China


  • GDP - $18 trillion (2nd)
  • HDI - 0.788 (75th)
  • HPI - 41.9 (51st)
• India


  • GDP - $3.4 trillion (5th)
  • HDI - 0.644 (134th)
  • HPI - 27.8 (121st)
• Bolivia - Evo Morales


  • Resigned 2019 - far-right successor
  • Return of mas - political party
  • Pensions, literacy programs, infrastructure development, education programs
  • Mother Earth Law - holds land as sacred and protects it
  • Greenlighted 190-mile highway
  • Inequality down and GDP up
• ICESCR


  • Crucial in human development
  • Central in understanding human rights
  • International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - part of international Bill of Human Rights passed by the UN and signed by 163 countries in 1948
• Afghanistan


  • 36% of girls enrolled in school (2012-13)
  • 2001 - 21% of children
  • 2011 - 97% of children
  • Taliban banned girls in education