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BUTTO, Luis Alberto. SÍNTESIS HISTÓRICA DE LOS CAMBIOS OCURRIDOS EN EL ÍNDICE DE DESARROLLO HUMANO EN VENEZUELA ENTRE 1936 Y 1945. Investigación y Postgrado [online]. 2002, vol.17, n.2, pp.113-140. ISSN 1316-0087.

This paper is the outcome of historical research based on examination of documents produced by government agencies, active participants, and scholars of the period in question. The core objective was to identify some of the principal changes in certain indictors of the human development index in Venezuela between 1936 and 1945, and relate these changes with the actions in the health and education areas taken by the administrations of Presidents Eleazar López Contreras and Isaías Medina Angarita. The key conclusion from the research is the finding that the human development index for Venezuelans underwent a very significant change, reflecting the country's shift from a pre-modern society to one whose indicators are those associated with modernity. This paper is the author's contribution to the collective research project undertaken by the Economic and Social History Course of the Doctoral Program in History at Andrés Bello Catholic University during the March - July 2001 term.

Palavras-chave : Venezuela; human development index; Eleazar López Contreras; Isaías Medina Angarita governments.