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| | :: Sustainable Human Development :: Introduction to SHD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Development that is achieved at the expense of the poorer, or which increases the riches of certain social segments at the expense of others, or that which suppresses freedoms or disturbs the social or political balances, is the antithesis of sustainable human development. |
 | | Hence, the link between economic development and human life should, by necessity, be a general, enlightened policy that starts and ends with the human being and society, and not with the growth in numbers, in spite of their importance. |
 | | Since the strategies of fulfilling human development are concentrated on effecting changes in the legal and institutional environment in which humans live, the basis remains widening human choices, and therefore expanding the space of human freedom, which includes, but is not restricted to, the economic dimension of development. |
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