Disparities in the Enabling Variables of Human Development in India
Keywords:
Human development, poverty and deprivationsAbstract
This study looked at disparities in the enabling variables of human development in India. Human development becomes meaningful only when poverty and deprivation are reduced to their lowest possible level in society. Whereas, in an egalitarian multi-cultural society like India, simultaneous assessment of human development and human deprivation would become relevant. The primary goal of the analysis of human deprivation within the human development framework is to identify non-income variables that play a dual role in society, namely the acceleration of human development and the deceleration of human deprivation. Lack of income among individuals as a measure of poverty only provides partial picture of the welfare of individuals as it does not reveal the basic dimensions of human life namely longevity, health, nutrition, education and level of interaction in the society.
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