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Article: Implementing a Human Development Strategy.
- Article from:
- Journal of Economic Issues
- Article date:
- March 1, 1996
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At the invitation of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Griffin and McKinley have provided in a relatively small book (138 pages) a highly commendable and thorough synthesis and review of the first three Human Development Reports (HDR) for the years 1990-92.
The objectives of the book are to introduce the general reader to a conception of human development that can provide an all-embracing strategy of development and to devise guidelines for policymakers, advisors, and academics in constructing and implementing development strategies that give high priority to human development.
Human development is ". . . seen as the enlargement of human ...