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Revisiting the MDG’s: Exploring a Multidimensional Framework for Human
Development
three-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system. The three
spaces of personal circumstances, resources and conversion
factor constitute the three axes of this system. On each of
the universally applicable capabilities, the coordinates of
these three axes determine the loci of prevailing and desired
levels of human development. The distance between these
loci defines the domain of the development project. The
figure given below indicates how this approximation within a
three dimensional Cartesian system depicts a more complete
picture of people’s prevailing circumstances to identify the
scope of a development project with greater precision.
In the above figure, the three spaces of personal
circumstances, resources and conversion factor are
represented by the x, y and z-axes respectively. The
prevailing and desired levels of human development are
identified on this plane by the coordinates of these three
axes. In the figure, the dark grey box represents the
prevailing () and the light grey box the desired () levels of
human development. A development project is commissioned
to bring about a change from to . In this process, serves
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