According to recent papal teaching, integral human development is a vocation at which all personal, social, and political activity must be directed. As such, it is not a social but an anthropological program. An ontological reconstruction of the term places the concern for true humanity in the center, which is subject to development as a process that can be fostered by a proper alignment of its components. Integrality refers to the whole-part structure of human development. Development can also be understood as a state at a point in time, and much of the social policy debate plays on this polysemy. The only known model that integrates all aspects of the complex entity that is integral human development is the Holy Trinity. Following the vocation described by Catholic anthropology and social teaching therefore means emulating Trinitarian relations in individual and social lives.
Wolfgang Grassl, "Integral Human Development in Analytical Perspective: A Trinitarian Model", Journal of Markets and Morality 16, no. 1 (Spring 2013): 135-155