Human development index.

human development index "the basic purpose of development is to enlarge people's choices. In principle, these choices can change over time .people often value achievements that donot show up at all or not ultimately in income or growth figures:greater access to knowledge, better nutrition and health services, moer secure livelihoods, security against crime and physical violences, satisfying leisure hours ,political and cultural freedoms and sense of participation in community activities. the objective of development …showed first 75 words of 1404 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1404 total…human beings are ultimately concerned with the lives they lead and income though important is only insturmental in achieving this. hence poverty as capability failure is much more relevant than income poverty and can provide the invariant absolutist core to poverty identification. poverty as capability failure is more intense than income poverty. the absolutist core or the set of functionings do not change generally. however variations in relative deprivation affect the intensity of capability failure.