11. Unequal Development in the 1990s: Growing Gaps in Human Capabilities
- Author:
- Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and David Stewart
- Publication Date:
- 05-2007
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- The New School Graduate Program in International Affairs
- Abstract:
- This paper assesses poverty trends by using human development outcomes rather than by using income measures alone. It shows that the decade of the 1990s was a decade of prosperity and progress for the world but also of development disaster for many of the world's poorest countries where key indicators of human development not only failed to progress but began to register reversals based on both income and capability indicators. The paper goes on to identify the poorest performing countries and examines their characteristics. These characteristics suggest common constraints that they face, constraints that merit attention in the fight against global poverty.
- Topic:
- Development, Economics, Political Economy, and Poverty