Development with a Human Face

Santosh Mehrotra is Senior Development Economist at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva. Richard Jolly is Special Adviser to the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

• PART I: OVERVIEW ; 1. Profiles in Success: Reasons for Hope and Priorities for Action ; 2. Social Development in High-Achieving Countries: Common Elements and Diversities ; 3. Health and Education Policies in High-Achieving Countries: Some Lessons ; PART II: CASE-STUDIES ; 4. Botswana: Social Development in a Resource-rich Economy ; 5. Mauritius: The Roots of Success 1960-1993 ; 6. Rapid Social Transformation despite Economic Adjustment and Slow Growth: The Experience of Zimbabwe ; 7. The Route to Social Development in Kerala: Social Intermediation and Public Action ; 8. Social Policies in a Slowly Growing Economy: Sri Lanka ; 9. Social Policies in a Growing Economy: The Role of the State in the Republic of Korea ; 10. Malaysia: Social Development, Poverty Reduction, and Economic Transformation ; 11. Barbados: Social Development in a Small Island State ; 12. Costa Rica: Social Development and Heterodox Adjustment ; 13. Human Development in Cuba: Growing Risk of Reversal ; PART III: CONCLUSION ; 14. Paths to Social Development: Lessons from Case-Studies ; 15. The Links between Economic Growth, Poverty Reduction, and Social Development: Theory and Practice

This path-setting and highly commendable study on human development does much to counter the widespread mood of development pessimism that afflicts both the developed and developing world