Human Development Index (HDI) and it’s Components - Pakistan at HDI Ranking
It described HDI with special reference to Pakistan. HDI history, its standard. Limitation and criticism on HDI. What are the Challenges of Human Development in Pakistan? Some figure/data about HDI of Pakistan
Human Development Index (HDI) and it’s Components - Pakistan at HDI Ranking
1. Human Development Index (HDI) and it’s
Components - Pakistan at HDI Ranking
Dr Usman Mustafa
Team Leader, National Program for Improvement of Watercourses in Pakistan
ME&IE Consultant, G3, Islamabad
usman1811@gmail.com
2. Format
Wgat is HDI?
• Life Expectation
• Level of education
• Standerd of living
History of HDI
Factor Considered for FDI
How to Calculate HDI?
Limitation & Criticism on HDP
Why HDI of Pakistan is low?
What are the Challenges of Human
Development in Pakistan?
HDI Figures
6. What is the meaning of a level education?
The extent of formal
instruction a person has
received (e.g., the highest
grade in school completed or
its equivalent or the highest
degree received) e.g.
Primary, secondry,
intermediate, graduation,
higher education.
7. Standered of Living - GNI/Per Capita PPP ...
Purchasing power parity (PPP)
is a measure of the price of
specific goods in different
countries and is used to
compare the absolute
purchasing power of the
countries' currencies.
8. Purchasing power parity
(PPP)
It is a measure of the price of
specific goods in different countries
and is used to compare the
absolute purchasing power of the
countries' currencies.
14. Original HDI = 1/3(Life
Expectancy)+1/3(Education)+1/3
(Per-Capita Income)
Education included adult literacy
rate and school enrollments.
Original HDI used arithmetic
mean to calculate HDI.
Hybrid HDI uses geometric mean
rather than arithmetic mean in
calculating HDI.
24. The UNDP Pakistan National
Human Development Report on
Inequality 2020 detailed how the
country's allocation on education,
health services, and social
protection programmes is lower
than its neighbouring countries,
which spend a higher share of
their GDP on human development
and consequently have higher HDI
rankings.
25. Insufficient education, health, and
income indicators:
Skyrocketing inflation,
Soaring joblessness, and
Worsening security
Which will further dampen
economic growth, the attention of
our policy and decision makers is
riveted by a vicious power tussle
26.
27. “With over 20 million school-age
children out of school, high levels
of child malnutrition, and low
empowerment of women,
Pakistan’s human capital
challenges are among the most
serious in the world—it is a human
capital crisis that is profound,
silent and with far reaching
negative effects on the potential
of the country and its people,”