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Research in Human Development is a quarterly peer-reviewed interdisciplinary scientific journal that publishes research on all aspects of human development. Its scope includes the perspectives of biology, psychology, and sociology, among other disciplines. It was established in 2004 and is published by Taylor & Francis.
Human Development publishes theoretical and metatheoretical contributions and integrative reviews of lines of research in psychological development within conceptual, historical, and methodological frameworks. Contributions serve to raise theoretical issues, flesh out interesting and potentially powerful ideas, and differentiate key constructs.
The concept of human development expands upon the notion of economic development to include social, political and even ethical dimensions.Since the mid-twentieth century, international organisations such as the United Nations and the World Bank have adopted human development as a holistic approach to evaluating a country’s progress that considers living conditions, social relations ...
Human development may refer to: Development of the human body; Developmental psychology; Development theory; Human development (economics) Human Development Index, an index used to rank countries by level of human development; Human evolution, the prehistoric process leading to the modern human species; Human Development, a journal published by ...
Cognitive development is primarily concerned with how infants and children acquire, develop, and use internal mental capabilities such as: problem-solving, memory, and language. Major topics in cognitive development are the study of language acquisition and the development of perceptual and motor skills.
The Human Development and Capabilities Association is an academic and research society whose aim is to promote the field of human development in general and the capability approach in particular. The Association was launched in 2004 with conferences in the UK at Cambridge and in Italy at Pavia. And has run conferences annually since.
The National Human Development Reports (NHDR) take the Global Human Development Report approach to the national level and are prepared and owned by national teams. More than 540 national and sub-national HDRs have been produced so far by 135 countries, in addition to 31 regional reports.
The Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA) was launched in September 2004 at the Fourth Capability Conference in Pavia, Italy. [1] It was founded to promote research from many disciplines on key problems including poverty, justice, well-being, and economics.