POSITION OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA IN THE BALKANS IN THE CONTEXT OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
POSITION OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA IN THE BALKANS IN THE CONTEXT OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

Author(s): Maida Fetahagić
Subject(s): Regional Geography, Social development, Demography and human biology
Published by: Akademija Nauka i Umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: human development; human development indicators; inequality distribution; multidimensional poverty; Bosnia and Herzegovina;
Summary/Abstract: What position does B&H take in relation to the surrounding countries in terms of human development indicators? What kind of human development trends have been present in relation to the Balkan countries? What position does B&H take in the world? An effort to answer these questions will be made by analysis of B&H’s position in terms of human development indicators: Human Development Index, Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index, Gender Inequality Index and Multidimensional Poverty Index for 2010. The context of human development is getting increasingly important, as the concept of human development is becoming a developmental paradigm of the 21st century. In the first Human Development Report that was published in 1990, the UN introduced the concept of human development, with holistic vision of development that puts people in the center of all developmental processes. After over 20 years of practice and academic papers on human development and capability approach, the latest HDR 2010 defines human development as a process of the expansion of people’s freedom to live long, healthy and creative life; to advance other goals they have reason to value; and to engage actively in shaping development equitably and sustainably on shared planet. (HDR 2010, p. 12) The report involved 169 countries, the classification of which was carried out in accordance with the achieved human development indicators. Bosnia and Herzegovina takes the 68th position, with the achieved HDI of 0.710, and belongs to the group of countries with high human development.

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