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The United Nations Development Programme has recently launched
an annual series of Human Development Reports (HDRs) see UNDP
(1990-annual). This event marks a major initiative to broaden the debate
over development strategies and, in particular, to secure a greater
emphasis within that debate on people and their circumstances. From the
outset the Human Development Reports have documented the fact that the
correlations between economic growth and improvements in health,
education and other social indicators are not necessarily close,
although there are obvious causal links which can be traced in both
directions. In particular, there are countries for which the economic
growth performance has been more impressive than the gains which are
suggested by various social indicators. Pakistan is a case in point and
this paper reports on an effort to first understand why this might be,
and then to develop a framework within which to structure the issues
arising as an initial step towards the redesign of policies.