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24- The Human Development Report which is annually

brought out by the United Nations Development Programme

(UNDP). This report ranks countries on the basis of their

performance in social indicators like literacy and education

levels, life expectancy and maternal mortality rates. This

measure is called the Human Development Index.

25- In democratic countries the right of people to participate

in decision making is emphasised.

26- A decentralised approach to development makes it

possible to use various kinds of technologies — traditional

and modern — in a creative manner.

27- An alternative model of development would also try to

move away from the high cost, ecologically wasteful,

technology driven notion of development.