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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ...
Climate Change and Turkey Impacts, Sectoral Analyses, Socio-Economic Dimensions
(United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Turkey Office, 2007)
This publication integrates and synthesises the findings of various working groups headed by researchers, working closely with relevant national ministries, private sector representatives and NGOs.