Human Development
Access to resources, health and education are the key areas in human development. Suitable
indicators have been developed to measure each of these aspects.
Very often, people do not have the capability and freedom to make even basic choices. This
may be due to their inability to acquire knowledge, their material poverty, social
discrimination, inefficiency of institutions and other reasons. This prevents them from
leading healthy lives, being able to get educated or to have the means to live a decent life.
access to resources is therefore, important in enlarging their choices. If people do not have
capabilities in these areas, their choices also get limited.
For example, an uneducated child cannot make the choice to be a doctor because her choice
has got limited by her lack of education. Similarly, very often poor people cannot choose to
take medical treatment for disease because their choice is limited by their lack of resources.