Robert Chambers is certainly today the best-known of all of us in institute of development studies. His pioneering contributions to the practice and articulation of participatory development have long been at the core of his work and creativity. The HDRs have taken human development methodology into a number of new areas: economic growth for human development (and participation); finance; human security; consumption; globalization; human rights; deepening inclusive democracy; cultural liberty in today’s diverse world; aid, trade and security in an unequal world. Human development has also stressed priorities and interactions within a broader context – economic, political and democratic, dealing with such issues as the conditions for inclusive democracy, the links with human rights and the priorities for macro-economic strategies that open opportunities for people to strengthen their own capabilities and expand their own choices. Human development has also expanded its horizons to explore what is needed for globalization to be a more equitable, stable and sustainable process.