Each year, the Human Development Reports (HDRs) commissioned annually by the United Nations Program Development (UNDP) build a number of suggestions aimed at encouraging governments, civil society, social movements, private powers (economic leaders in general) to seek ways to make decentralized and vertically integrated decisions. This article will demonstrate, through documentary research, what the proposals of the HDRs of the 2000s are to strengthen political procedures that corroborate not only local political actions, but also generation of income and resources capable of promoting human development, understood as strengthening capabilities and opportunities for social, economic and political improvements.
human development; local government; decentralization