The paper introduces a poset-generalizability perspective for analysing human development indicators. It suggests a new method for identifying admissibility of different informational spaces and criteria in human development analysis. From its inception, the Capability Approach has argued for informational pluralism in normative evaluations. But in practice, it has turned its back to other (non-capability) informational spaces for being imperfect, biased or incomplete and providing a mere evidential role in normative evaluations. This paper offers the construction of a proper method to overcome this shortcoming. It combines tools from poset analysis and generalizability theory to put forward a systematic categorization of cases with different informational spaces. It provides illustrations by using key informational spaces, namely, resources, rights, subjective well-being and capabilities. The offered method is simpler and more concrete than mere human development guidelines and at the same time it avoids results based on automatic calculations. The paper concludes with implications for human development policies and an agenda for further work.

本文介绍了一种用于分析人类发展指标的偏序泛化视角。它提出了一种在人类发展分析中识别不同信息空间和标准的可接受性的新方法。从一开始，能力方法就在规范评估中主张信息多元化。但在实践中，它已经转向其他（非能力）信息空间，因为它不完善、有偏见或不完整，并且在规范评估中仅提供证据作用。本文提供了一种适当的方法来克服这个缺点。它结合了偏集分析和泛化理论的工具，提出了具有不同信息空间的案例的系统分类。它通过使用关键信息空间（即资源、权利、主观幸福感和能力。所提供的方法比单纯的人类发展指南更简单、更具体，同时它避免了基于自动计算的结果。该文件的结论是对人类发展政策的影响和进一步工作的议程。