Human development in theory: Amartya Sen - capability approach, John Rawls - critique of
utilitarianism, Mahbub ul Haq � the making of human development index; Conceptual issues: basic
needs and capabilities, capabilities and human development, functionings and freedom, agency
functions, collective action, Millennium Development Goals; Human Development Index: evolution,
measurement, refinements, debates, world, national and state Human Development Reports;
Human development in practice: Multi-dimensional poverty measures, country case studies; Hunger,
unemployment and public action: food security, employment security; Indian case: state of the Indian
farmer, agrarian crisis and farmer�s suicides, state of primary and secondary schooling, public
health, gender related conflicts.
Texts/References:
1.A. Sen, Development as Freedom, Oxford University Press, 2000
2.S. Fukuda-Parr and A. K. Shivakumar (eds.), Readings in Human Development: Concepts, Measures
and Policies for a Development Paradigm, Oxford University Press, 2005.
3.J. Dreze and A. Sen (eds.), The Political Economy of Hunger, Volume 1: Entitlement and Well-Being,Clarendon Press Oxford, 1990.
4.UNDP, World Human Development Reports, United Nations, 1990-2011.
5.K. Haq and R. Ponzio (eds.), Pioneering the Human Development Revolution: An Intellectual
Biography of Mahbub ul Haq, Oxford University Press, 2008
6.J. Rawls, Justice as Fairness: A Restatement, The Belknap Press, 2000
