The Human Values Index: conceptual foundations and evidence from Brazil
介绍了人类价值观指数（HVI），该指数基于人类发展视角，将价值观纳入发展策略，旨在为普通公民提供有用的统计工具，促进公共推理和社会正义。
The dominance of the 'growth fetish' ideology has much contributed to lure societies into believing that people's value judgements are unnecessary for a better life and social justice. The theme 'human values' became the central research topic for the United Nations Development Programme Human Development Report team in Brazil after the promotion of a nationwide consultation to choose the focus of its 2009/10 report. A new index, named the Human Values Index (HVI), was created to tackle the issue of human values as part of development strategies. The main objective of this paper is to introduce this index, showing its features and properties. The HVI is built on an understanding that development is not a value-neutral concept and that from a human development perspective, welfare indicators should be qualitatively closer to human values focusing on statistics that can be useful to ordinary citizens, with the hope that in their hands the HVI might become a useful tool in promoting public reasoning and social justice. Copyright , Oxford University Press.