लेखक: Amartya Sen

Sarah Burd-Sharps served as the deputy director of UNDP”s Human Development Report Office until September 2006.Kristen Lewis was a lead author of the water and sanitation report of the U.N. Millennium Project, led by Jeffrey Sachs, and writes extensively on development, gender, and the environment.Eduardo Borges Martins was the chief statistician in the creation of the Human Development Index for Brazil”s municipalities.The American Human Development Project is an independent, non-profit initiative of Oxfam America, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council, with additional support from the Annenberg Foundation.