I have no data to provide an unequivocal answer to your question. Some countries, like Malaysia, Korea, etc, has moved ahead. Others like Phillippines, Chile, Argentina has slipped. I think East Europeans have also lagged. 

Comparatively, perhaps we haven't made progress. There is no reason to believe we made progress until 1989. I think we have moved ahead in post 1989, but I could be wrong.

In absolute term, we have made progress. In 1989, there were 951 doctors, less than 1% had access to telephone, less than 8% had access to electricity, our longevity was 47 years and literacy rate was sub 30%. Only 25 families controlled our import-export business then. Very few people had seen foreign countries and passport was a privilege not the right that we have now. Child mortality rate was one of the highest in the world. There were scarcely 2000 Km of roads, and even opening a 'goreto' and 'ghoreto' tracks used to be news in radio, which , by the way, was only one at the time. Despite war, we have come very far in these twenty years.