Human Development Essay

INTRODUCTION

The Concept of Human Development:
"The basic purpose of development is to enlarge people's choices. In principle, these choices can be infinite and can change over time. People often value achievements that do not show up at all, or not immediately, in income or growth figures: greater access to knowledge, better nutrition and health services, more secure livelihoods, security against crime and physical violence, satisfying leisure hours, political and cultural freedoms and sense of participation in community activities. The objective of development is to create an enabling environment for people to enjoy long, healthy and creative lives."- Mahbub ul Haq ‐‐ Founder of the Human Development Report
The Human Development Index (HDI)

Purdy (1997) - Communication Technology is a relational field (simply, a medium that connects people) and its implications for human communication and listening. It tend to be one–way, taking people away from community activity and controlled by political economic interests—as opposed to interactive media channels which are, and have the potential to be, a means for extending interactive human communication (dependent on perception).
Rapid Rise in Communication Technology
Hamelink (1997) Communication Technology has been showing a rapid rise in its development from years, a brief of it detailed below:
First phase (1939-1945): Media for transmission was fast-running couriers, carrier pigeons, smoke signals, talking drums, semaphores, books, printed press, telegraph, telephone, radio, television and

It was concluded that yet it has positive effect on development but the negative aspects yet to be studied, very few studies exist on this perspective and the finding of developing do not apply to developed countries.
Gholami et al. (2010) - The analysis finds out that change in health care, education, Information and Communication Technology have a stronger impact on Human Development Index scores for less Developed than Highly Developed. Education foster direct and indirect effect on ICT and at higher levels it only has indirect effect.
Jones et al. (2010) - In this analysis is done on Inequality and polarization in health care responsiveness of health system performance. The data was used from world heath survey to measure and compare across 25 European countries, and it was observed that there exists a large variability in inequality in health care responsiveness across countries. The countries which perform poor in one domain also perform poor in other. Yet inequality in health care responsiveness does not show inequality in access to specialist or heath