ABSTRACT
In the last chapter I attempted to trace the patterns of unevenness in human development in Pakistan and Bangladesh. I argued that the primary axes of social divide in these two countries comprise the vast structural inequality between a small elite and a large disenfranchised ‘subaltern’, rather than ethnicity or religion. Our three approaches to human development give us three distinct ways to understand this social divide. To recall very briefl y, the different perspectives I have identifi ed (namely; the capabilities approach, the human face approach, and the social power approach) focused on three aspects of the problematic of human development. The capability perspective sees human development as a process of enlarging people’s choices; the human face approach prioritizes social protection, and the social power perspective sees human development as reconfi guration of the matrices of power.
