Monitoring Human Development: Enlarging People’s Choices To Have Access To The Resources Needed For A Decent Standard Of Living

Résumé: Abstract: Human development is the process of enlarging people’s opportunities to live a healthy and happy life and takes into account the level of the actually achieved well-being. The Human Development Index reflects socio-economic aspects that are left out in other indexes such as the Gross National Product. It serves to monitor progress and to make comparisons between different countries. Through disaggregation, the Human Development Index allows to study inequalities between the values that led to the Human Development Index and highlights for example disparities between regions within a country. Over the past generation, the Arab world experienced rapid progress in human development outcomes, including declining child mortality, extended schooling and increasing stature of women. These development gains penetrated most Arab states and subpopulations. This essay traces the impact of human development on the economical and socio-economical change, focusing on the events of the Arab Spring and the political change in the Arab countries.

Publié dans la revue: Revue Finance & marchés