Chapter 2

1.   `Human Development´ has both inspired the UNDP's Human Development Reports and is their cornerstone.

2.   Conceptual framework, based on a survey of empirical studies, as delineated in (a) Gustav Ranis and Frances Stewart, ‘Strategies for Success in Human Development’, Queen Elizabeth House, Working Papers Series, Working Paper No. 32, 2000; and (b) Alejandro Ramirez, Gustav Ranis and Frances Stewart, ‘Economic Growth and Human Development’, Queen Elizabeth House, Working Paper Series, Working Paper No. 18, 1988.

3.   Alejandro Ramirez, Gustav Ranis and Frances Stewart, 1988, op. cit.

4.   Ibid., p. 20.

5.   Ibid., pp. 22–23.

6.   Madhusudan Ghosh, Economic ‘Growth and Human Development in Indian States’, Economic and Political Weekly, XLI (30) (2006): pp. 3326–3327.

7.   Ibid., p. 3324.

8.   Gustav Ranis and Frances Stewart, 2000, op. cit.

9.   Besides, aid flows could be made conditional to a country's standing in terms of human development and its will or capacity to advance on that front.

10. The text so far is in part based on several HDRs.

11. Gustav Ranis, Frances Stewart and Emma Samman, ‘Human Development: Beyond the HDI’, Queen Elizabeth House, Working Paper Series, Working Paper No. 135, 2006.

12. Ibid.

13. Ibid., p. 29

14. Ibid., p. 32

15. Richard Morse, ‘Participatory Self Review: Recovering Our Roots in John Dewey’, Social Change, 28 (2 and 3) (1998): pp. 122–141.

16. Abdul Aziz and David D. Arnold, eds., Decentralised Governance in Asian Countries (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1996).

17. Ashok Swain, 2000. ‘Social Capital and Popular Mobilisation: Studying Environmental Protests in an Indian State’, Asian Journal of Political Science, 8 (1) (June 2000): pp. 33–46. Cited in Hans Blomkvist and Ashok Swain, ‘Investigating Democracy and Social Capital in India’ Economic and Political Weekly (24 February 2001): p. 641.

18. Hans Blomkvist and Ashok Swain, 2001, op. cit., p. 639

19. Robert Putnam, Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993).

20. Hans Blomkvist and Ashok Swain, 2001, op. cit., p. 639.

21. Sudha Pai, ‘Social Capital, Panchayats and Grass-roots Democracy: Politics of Dalit Assertion in Uttar Pradesh’, Economic and Political Weekly (24 February 2001): p. 652.

22. Ibid., pp. 652–654.

23. John C. Caldwell, ‘Routes to Low Mortality in Poor Countries’, Population and Development Review, 12 (2) (1986): p. 182.

24. T. M. Thomas Isaac and Michael Tharakan, ‘Kerala: Towards a New Agenda’, Economic and Political Weekly, XXX (31 and 32) (1995): pp. 1993–2004.

25. Ibid., pp. 189–190, 192.

26. Ibid., pp. 188–189.

27. John C. Caldwell, 1986, op. cit., p. 193.

28. Ibid., pp. 91, 207–208.

29. Scott B. Halstead, Julia A. Walsh and Kenneth S. Warren, ‘Good Health at Low Cost’, Proceedings of a Conference at the Bellagio Conference Centre, Bellagio, Italy, 29 April to 3 May 1985, Rockefeller Foundation.

30. Moni Nag, ‘The Impact of Social and Economic Development on Mortality: Comparative Study of Kerala and West Bengal’. In Scott B. Halstead, Julia A Walsh and Kenneth S. Warren, eds., Good Health at Low Cost (New York: Rockefeller Foundation, 1985), pp. 71–73.

31. Shripad Dharmadhikary, ‘The Narmada—Death of a River’, IIC Quarterly, 33 (1) (2006): p. 68.

32. Ibid., pp. 68–69.

33. Ibid., p. 70.

34. Ibid., p. 65.

35. Ibid., p. 71.

36. Mike Levien, ‘Narmada and the Myth of Rehabilitation’, Economic and Political Weekly, XLI (33) (2006): pp. 3581–3585.

37. Mike Levien, 2006, op. cit..

38. Ibid., p. 3583.

39. Ramaswamy R. Iyer, ‘Narmada Rehabilitation: OSG Report and After’, The Hindu, 1 August 2006.

40. Mike Levien, 2006, op. cit., p. 3582

41. Ramaswamy R. Iyer, 2006, op. cit.

42. Milke Levien, 2006, op. cit., p. 3584; Ramaswamy R. Iyer, 2006, op. cit.

43. Ramaswamy R. Iyer, 2006, op. cit.

44. Milke Levien, 2006, op. cit., p. 3582.

45. Ibid., pp. 70, 73.

46. Ibid., p. 3583.

47. Ibid., p. 73.