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This is not a good moment to come up with small improvements to the definition of human development, says Isabel Ortiz – governments are facing an unprecedented level of debt and fiscal deficits because of the COVID-19 emergency, and now is the time to solidly make the case for human development, as agreed by governments at the UN for decades.
13.06.2020
Marc Fleurbaey proposes to define human development with a diversity of values in mind.
11.06.2020
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr argues that we need to go back to the big, visionary ideas at the heart of human development 30 years ago, the idea that human development is about freedom – about having the ability to live the life one has reason to value
09.06.2020
Facundo García Valverde argues that social and environmental factors make people’s capability sets unequal. Institutions, policies, laws and social norms in particular have a tremendous influence in the shaping of people’s capabilities. Human development therefore needs to incorporate a specific account of egalitarian relations as there is a strong link between inequality and lack of valuable freedoms.
05.06.2020
Only through listening to poor and vulnerable people can we understand what human development means. We need to collect people’s stories about how they live their lives and make this central to our rearticulation of human development, says Adrian Jjuuko.
04.06.2020
Big questions have been raised about the neoliberal agenda by COVID-19, Stuart Carr observes, and points out that the challenge lies in transforming macro indicators to capture what really makes a difference in people’s everyday lives.
29.05.2020
Jhonatan Clausen Lizárraga suggests that environmental sustainability be considered a dimension of human development and that there is a need to engage the broader public to link concepts related to the human development approach to their daily lives.
29.05.2020
Ilona M. Otto speaks about the importance of contributions from various disciplines, complex modelling tools and multidimensional approaches to address complex realities.
28.05.2020
Karen O’Brien asserts that human development needs to address connections across societies, with non-human species and with the environment.
25.05.2020
Craig Calhoun discusses, among other things, the importance of including solidarity (among humans and with non-humans) and transformation as central concepts to enrich our ideas about human development.
22.05.2020
