New paper for the UN Development Programme by Flavio Comim

Dr Flavio Comim has authored a background paper to the Global Human Development Report prepared by the United Nations Development Program.

The paper 'Beyond the HDI? Assessing alternative measures of human development from a capability perspective' explores how the human development perspective can be enlarged by using the capability approaches of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum. It examins alternative measures of human development, besides the Human Development Index (HDI), and suggests guidelines for building human development indicators from a capability perspective.