Murray, Christopher J. L.2019-09-252019-09-252011-06-241991-05http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/179441"Monitoring and evaluating the development process is a major priority for all those concerned with ameliorating the conditions of the world’s poor and underprivileged. To this aim, the United Nations Development Programme Human Development Report 1990 is a major contribution (UNDP, 1990). Clearly, it is intended to bring as much attention to improvements in human welfare as the World Development Report (World Bank, 1990) brings to changes in the global economy. While the motives behind the design, preparation and dissemination of the Human Development Report are to be applauded, the difficulties of measuring the development process should not be trivialized. This short piece uses the new human development index in the Human Development Report as focal point for discussing the empirical constraints on monitoring and evaluating social and economic development. Not intended to be an encyclopedic litany of the limitations of various datasets, my comments will be restricted to the human development index (HDI) and its component parts. The basic conclusion is that real data problems limit the ways in which we can measure development especially over time."(pg 3)Pages: 24engWith permission of the license/copyright holdermoral developmentmethodologyPolitical ethicsEthics of political systemsEthics of lawRights based legal ethicsPeace ethicsDevelopment ethicsBook