There is also the Human Development in South Asia Report, brought out by the Islamabad-based Human Development Research Centre, now renamed the Mahbub-ul Haq Human Development Centre. Three editions of the South Asian HDR have already been published and the fourth, for the year 2000, has just been released.
HDRs document deprivation rather than development and this new incarnation focuses on the gender question. There is also the comparative issue of how India fares vis-