This 9th edition of The Human Development Report focuses on consumption patterns prevalent in today's world. It provides unique data tables updated annually and derived from a set of human development indicators.

This 9th edition of The Human Development Report focuses on consumption patterns prevalent in today's world. It provides unique data tables updated annually and derived from a set of human development indicators.

This valuable volume contains seven of the actual papers commissioned for the 1998 Human Development Report which focused on the theme, Consumption for Human Development. These unique papers address the economic & political dimensions of human development. This academic publication makes a significant contribution to the exciting world-wide debate that has emerged in the past several years on issues of human development.