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Nasir Khan, University of Auckland, New Zealand
the dictates of diverse circumstances. In particular,
functionality within the space of personal circumstances pay
proper heed to such crucial dynamics as the role of informal
institutions in the societies of developing world. This helps in
both identifying the existing states of human development
and influencing the trajectories of development intervention
towards the desired thresholds. The outline provided in the
above lines gives an indication of how such a framework
could be configured. It obviously runs short of a compact
model, but the intention was not so much to provide a plan
but to throw some feelers in the directions from which
human development could be properly addressed. The aim
would be considered achieved if these lines even stir up
some thinking towards a revisiting of the prevailing
paradigms of human development.
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