Human Development

Human development may refer to:

  • Human development (biology), the process of a human becoming biologically mature
  • Developmental psychology, also known as human development
  • Human development (humanity), as it relates to economics and standards of living
  • Human Development Index, an index used to rank countries by level of human development

Famous quotes containing the words human and/or development:

    But nothing is better than a truth which appears not to have the semblance of truth. There is always something incomprehensible about the great heroic deeds performed by humanity because they rise so far beyond the mediocre measure of mere mortals; but it is always only because of the incredible feats that human beings have accomplished that humanity recovers its faith in itself.
    Stefan Zweig (18811942)

    On fields all drenched with blood he made his record in war, abstained from lawless violence when left on the plantation, and received his freedom in peace with moderation. But he holds in this Republic the position of an alien race among a people impatient of a rival. And in the eyes of some it seems that no valor redeems him, no social advancement nor individual development wipes off the ban which clings to him.
    Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825–1911)