title:3.6 Psychological bias
1. Appropriation by institutions
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title:3.5 Cultural and educational biases
The range of significance attributed to "culture" by different schools of thought is notorious, whether or not such distinctions are made in a spirit of clarification or obfuscation. At best the promotion of culture is an effort to cultivate every aspect of the human spirit, whereas at worst it is merely an effort to attract tourists (increasingly the only justification for the allocation of funds to "culture").
title:3.4 Social and educational biases
1. Acknowledgement of non-economic dimensions
The limitations of the economic focus of human development have long been acknowledged in isolated statements. Examples include:
title:3.3 Economic bias
1. Subsumption of human development
title:3.2 Co-existence of unrelated human development paradigms
1. Biased approaches to human development.
title:3.1 Intent
1. Intent
The term "human development" points to a process which is of vital interest at a time when the organization and future of life on this planet is challenged by the consequences of past understandings of that same process. For it is human development, through its lack of restraint, which has given rise to a high proportion of the problems of the world. There is nevertheless much confusion concerning the significance of the term. And yet there is great need to harness the forces of human development to meet the challenge of the times more effectively.
title:Significance
This section provides commentaries related to the significance of Human Development, a section of the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential
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title:Human potential and development project - index to notes and commentaries
title:Modes of awareness
Rationale
title:Concepts
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