Human Development Index Model¶

• Argues for holistic development
• Capability approach

Freedom

Economic growth should only be a means and not an end goal

Focus on individual development, rather than market development

• Health
• Education
• Standard of living

State should be a integral part of the system

HDI¶

Human Development Index

Encourages¶

• Capability
• Beings: Conscience
• Productivity
• Empowerment

Significance¶

• Helps control population
• Increase efficiency
• Other resources are better utilized
• Society becomes healthy and safe
• Conservation of environment

IDk¶

Welfare States¶

• Financial services
• Social services
• Non-cash benefits

Modern welfare states: France, Finland, Belgium, Netherlands

IDK¶

• Military expenditure
• Vicious cycle of offensive and defensive
• Govts don’t keep education as a point in their agenda
• Life expectancy: Mental health is often forgotten
• Electricity consumption as an indicator of development is not ideal, as governments will be incentivized to increase consumption and hence increase CO2
• Creating more awareness about smoking

Case Studies¶

Bihar Sithamali¶

Open Defecation: Gives a chance to interact with each other

Kerala Development Model¶

Advantages¶

Disadvantages¶

• Agricultural stagnation
• Industrial stagnation
• Power deficiency
• Lack of good infrastructure
• Private sector declining
• Rising local unemployment in the state
• Poor investment in climate (2018, 2019, 2020 Floods)
• Headland workers: Harthal and Bandh

IDK¶

• Remove table
• 3^rd person: This paper highlights/attempts
• 1^st person may cause bias
• Future/present-perfect study
  • Will analyze
  • analyzes

Drawbacks¶

Measurement

• Civil war
• We are not considering other external factors such as
• Invasion
• Natural disasters

Steps¶

• Objective
• Measurement
• Outcome

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