An Indicator for Human Development

Introduction The goal here is to devise an indicator for development. This indicator is being sought in addition to more conventional measures of water infrastructure in a region and the region’s formal measures of economic performance. Defining such a metric can take many approaches, such as a focus on institutions for human cooperation and resource management. I have adopted a different path in order avoid the challenge of formal vs. informal institutions and also to try to get to the heart of the question rather than play at its periphery. In doing so, I may have become too much of a functionalist, but that is the bias in my training and how I frame problems.