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Human Development Report 1998 Consumption for Human Development
(United Nations, 1998)The 1998 Report investigates the 20th century's growth in consumption, unprecedented in its scale and diversity. The benefits of this consumption have spread far and wide. More people are better fed and housed than ever ... -
Human Development Report 1999 Globalization with a Human Face
(United Nations, 1999)Global markets, global technology, global ideas and global solidarity can enrich the lives of people everywhere. This year’s Report argues that globalization is not new, but that the present era of globalization, driven ... -
Human Development Report 2000 Human Rights and Human Development
(United Nations, 2000)Human rights and human development share a common vision and a common purpose—to secure, for every human being, freedom, well-being and dignity. Divided by the cold war, the rights agenda and development agenda followed ... -
Human Development Report 2001 Making New Technologies Work for Human Development
(2001)The 2001 Report, like all previous Human Development Reports, is about people. It is about how people can create and use technology to improve their lives. It is also about forging new public policies to lead the revolutions ... -
Human Development Report 2002 Deepening Democracy in a Fragmented World
(United Nations, 2002)This Report is about politics and human development. It is about how political power and institutions—formal and informal, national and international—shape human progress. And it is about what it will take for countries ... -
Human Development Report 2003 Millennium Development Goals: A Compact Among Nations to End Human Poverty
(United Nations, 2003)The new century opened with an unprecedented declaration of solidarity and determination to rid the world of poverty. In 2000 the UN Millennium Declaration, adopted at the largest-ever gathering of heads of state, committed ... -
Human Development Report 2004 Cultural Liberty in Today’s Diverse World
(United Nations, 2004)Accommodating people’s growing demands for their inclusion in society, for respect of their ethnicity, religion, and language, takes more than democracy and equitable growth. Also needed are multicultural policies that ... -
Human Development Report 2005 International cooperation at a crossroads: Aid, trade and security in an unequal world
(United Nations, 2005)This 2005 Human Development Report takes stock of human development, including progress towards the MDGs. Looking beyond statistics; it highlights the human costs of missed targets and broken promises. Extreme inequality ... -
Human Development Report 2006 Beyond scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis
(United Nations, 2006)Throughout history water has confronted humanity with some of its greatest challenges. Water is a source of life and a natural resource that sustains our environments and supports livelihoods – but it is also a source of ... -
Human Development Report 2007/8 Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world
(United Nations, 2007)Climate change is the defining human development challenge of the 21st Century. Failure to respond to that challenge will stall and then reverse international efforts to reduce poverty. The poorest countries and most ... -
Human Development Report 2009 Overcoming barriers: Human mobility and development
(United Nations, 2009)Migration, both within and beyond borders, has become an increasingly prominent theme in domestic and international debates, and is the topic of the 2009 Human Development Report (HDR09). The starting point is that the ... -
Human Development Report 2010 The Real Wealth of Nations: Pathways to Human Development
(United Nations, 2010)The first Human Development Report in 1990 opened with the simply stated premise that has guided all subsequent Reports: “People are the real wealth of a nation.” By backing up this assertion with an abundance of empirical ... -
Human Development Report 2011 Sustainability and Equity: A Better Future for All
(United Nations, 2011)The 2011 Human Development Report argues that the urgent global challenges of sustainability and equity must be addressed together – and identifies policies on the national and global level that could spur mutually reinforcing ... -
Human Development Report 2013 The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World
(United Nations, 2013)The 21st century is witnessing a profound shift in global dynamics, driven by the fast-rising new powers of the developing world. China has overtaken Japan as the world’s second biggest economy, lifting hundreds of millions ... -
Human Development Report 2014 Sustaining Human Progress: Reducing Vulnerabilities and Building Resilience
(United Nations, 2014)The Human Development Report Office (HDRO) is pleased to inform that the 2014 Human Development Report 'Sustaining Human Progress: Reducing Vulnerability and Building Resilience' was launched in Tokyo, on 24 July 2014. The ... -
Human Development Report 2015 Work for Human Development
(United Nations, 2015)From a human development perspective, the notion of work is broader and deeper than that of jobs or employment alone. The jobs framework fails to capture many kinds of work that have important human development implications ... -
Human Development Report 2016 Human Development for Everyone
(United Nations, 2016)Universalism is at the core of the human development approach. Human freedoms must be enlarged for all human beings—not a few, not the most, but all, in every corner of the world—to be able to realize their full potential ... -
Human Development Report 2019 Beyond income, beyond averages, beyond today: Inequalities in human development in the 21st century
(United Nations, 2019)Inequalities in human development are a roadblock to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. They are not just about disparities in income and wealth. They cannot be accounted for simply by using summary ... -
Human Development Report 2020 The next frontier Human development and the Anthropocene
(United Nations Development Programme, 2020)Thirty years ago, UNDP created a new way to conceive and measure progress. Instead of using growth in GDP as the sole measure of development, we ranked the world’s countries by their human development: by whether people ... -
Human Development Report 2021-22 Uncertain Times, Unsettled Lives: Shaping our Future in a Transforming World
(United Nations, 2022)We live in a world of worry. The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, having driven reversals in human development in almost every country, continues to spin off variants unpredictably. War in Ukraine and elsewhere has created ...