Ambitious Agendas

Without a stronger focus on human development, Indonesia's economic growth is at risk.

May 28, 2002

How should a country measure its development? Do you measure the length of its roads, the height of its dams, or the growth of that crudest of statistics, its GDP? That was certainly the thinking in earlier years. Or is development better measured by variables that don't lend themselves to easy quantification—the health of a country's citizens, the freedom of its workers, the education of its youth? Perhaps neither approach fully captures a

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