The Indian Journal for Human Development (IJHD) is a peer-reviewed journal that provides an open platform for promoting debates and discussions from a human development perspective. The focus of IJHD is to address issues of human poverty and deprivation as they affect the lives of ordinary people, not just in India, but across the developing world.
The Journal, launched in December 2006 by Professor Amartya Sen, is published bi-annually.
The Indian Journal for Human Development: welcomes original, innovative inter-disciplinary contributions from a human development perspective that address social, economic, political, cultural and legal concern, promote fresh debate on concepts and measurement of human development and offer human development policy insights.
The Journal publishes scholarly essays and short comments, lectures and orations, reflections and perspectives, previously published articles, book reviews, information on events and statistics relating to human development. Expressions of all shades and opinions are welcome.
Some of the contributions in the first two issues (2007) of the Journal include:
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Amartya Sen: Children and Human Rights |
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Amitabh Kundu and Ravi Srivastava: Meeting the Food Security Challenge in India: medium Term Goals and Strategies |
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Arjun Sengupta: A Rights-Based Approach to Removing Poverty: Eradicating Poverty as Realizing Human Rights |
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Ashwani Saith: Downsizing and Distortion of Poverty in India: The Perverse Power of Official Definitions |
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Brent Edelman and Arup Mitra: Slums as Vote Banks and Residents’ Access to Basic Amenities: The Role of Political Contact and its Determinants. |
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E. Wayne Nafziger: Economic Development, Inequality and War |
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Gerry Rodgers: Decent work, Social Inclusion, and Development |
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G. Omkarnath: The Formation of Capabilities |
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Jean Dreze, Reetika Khera and Sudha Narayanan: Early Childhood in India: Facing the Facts |
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K.P. Kannan and N. Vijayamohanan Pillai: Conceptualizing Social Security in a Human Development and Rights Perspective |
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Lincoln C Chen and A.K. Shiva Kumar: Turnaround in China’s Health Policies? |
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Rajeev Bhargava: Inclusion and Exclusion in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh: The Role of Religion |
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Rajeev Malhotra: Human Development Measures: From Advocacy to Policy Monitoring at Country Level |
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Ravi Kanbur: What’s Social Policy Got to Do with Economic Growth? |
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S.R. Osmani: Employment and Human Development: Promoting the Millennium Development Goals |
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Sabina Alkire: Measuring Agency: Issues and Possibilities |
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Sakiko Fukuda-Parr: Has the Human Development Approach Influenced Policy? The Case of World Bank Flagship Reports |
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