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Human
Development Report 2007/2008
Fighting climate change: Human
solidarity in a divided world
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
vulnerable citizens will suffer the earliest and most damaging setbacks, even
though they have contributed least to the problem. Looking to the future, no
country—however wealthy or powerful—will be immune to the impact of global
warming.
The Human Development Report 2007/2008 shows that climate change is not just
a future scenario. Increased exposure to droughts, floods and storms is already
destroying opportunity and reinforcing inequality. Meanwhile, there is now
overwhelming scientific evidence that the world is moving towards the point at
which irreversible ecological catastrophe becomes unavoidable. Business-as-usual
climate change points in a clear direction: unprecedented reversal in human
development in our lifetime, and acute risks for our children and their
grandchildren.
Human
Development Report 2006
Beyond scarcity: power, poverty and the
global water crisis
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 risk and
vulnerability. In the early 21st Century, prospects for human development are
threatened by a deepening global water crisis. Debunking the myth that the
crisis is the result of scarcity, this report argues poverty, power and
inequality are at the heart of the problem.
In a world of unprecedented wealth, almost 2 million children die each year
for want of a glass of clean water and adequate sanitation. Millions of women
and young girls are forced to spend hours collecting and carrying water,
restricting their opportunities and their choices. And water-borne infectious
diseases are holding back poverty reduction and economic growth in some of the
world’s poorest countries.
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Human
Development Report 2005
International
cooperation at a crossroads: Aid, trade and security in an unequal
world
This
year's 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 between
countries and within countries is identified as one of the
main barriers to human development and as a powerful brake
on accelerated progress towards the MDGs.
GLOBAL - 2005
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Human
Development Report 2004
Cultural Liberty in
Today's Diverse World
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 recognize differences, champion
diversity and promote cultural freedoms, so that all people
can choose to speak their language, practice their religion,
and participate in shaping their culture so that all people
can choose to be who they are.
GLOBAL - 2004 |
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Human
Development Report 2003
Millennium
Development Goals: A compact among nations to end human poverty
The
range of human development in the world is vast and uneven,
with astounding progress in some areas amidst stagnation and
dismal decline in others. Balance and stability in the world
will require the commitment of all nations, rich and poor,
and a global development compact to extend the wealth of
possibilities to all people.
GLOBAL - 2003
Human
Development Report 2002
Deepening democracy
in a fragmented world
This
Human Development Report is first and foremost about the
idea that politics is as important to successful development
as economics. Sustained poverty reduction requires equitable
growth-but it also requires that poor people have political
power. And the best way to achieve that in a manner
consistent with human development objectives is by building
strong and deep forms of democratic governance at all levels
of society.
GLOBAL - 2002
Human
Development Report 2001
Making new
technologies work for human development
Technology
networks are transforming the traditional map of
development, expanding people's horizons and creating the
potential to realize in a decade progress that required
generations in the past.
GLOBAL - 2001
Human
Development Report 2000
Human rights and
human development
Human
Development Report 2000 looks at human rights as an
intrinsic part of development and at development as a means
to realizing human rights. It shows how human rights bring
principles of accountability and social justice to the
process of human development.
GLOBAL - 2000
Human
Development Report 1999
Globalization with a
Human Face
Global
markets, global technology, global ideas and global
solidarity can enrich the lives of people everywhere. The
challenge is to ensure that the benefits are shared
equitably and that this increasing interdependence works for
people not just for profits. This year's Report argues that
globalization is not new, but that the present era of
globalization, driven by competitive global markets, is
outpacing the governance of markets and the repercussions on
people.
GLOBAL - 1999
Human
Development Report 1998
Consumption for Human
Development
The
high levels of consumption and production in the world
today, the power and potential of technology and
information, present great opportunities. After a century of
vast material expansion, will leaders and people have the
vision to seek and achieve more equitable and more human
advance in the 21st century.
GLOBAL - 1998
Human
Development Report 1997
Human Development to
Eradicate Poverty
Eradicating
poverty everywhere is more than a moral imperative - it is a
practical possibility. That is the most important message of
the Human Development Report 1997. The world has the
resources and the know-how to create a poverty-free world in
less than a generation.
GLOBAL - 1997
Human
Development Report 1996
Economic growth and
human development
The
Report argues that economic growth, if not properly managed,
can be jobless, voiceless, ruthless, rootless and
futureless, and thus detrimental to human development. The
quality of growth is therefore as important as its quantity
for poverty reduction, human development and sustainability.
GLOBAL - 1996
Human
Development Report 1995
Gender and human
development
The
report analyses the progress made in reducing gender
disparities in the past few decades and highlights the wide
and persistent gap between women's expanding capabilities and
limited opportunities. Two new measures are introduced for
ranking countries on a global scale by their performance in
gender equality and there follows an analysis of the
under-valuation and non-recognition of the work of women. In
conclusion, the report offers a five-point strategy for
equalizing gender opportunities in the decade ahead.
GLOBAL - 1995
Human
Development Report 1994
New dimensions of human
security
The
report introduces a new concept of human security which
equates security with people rather than territories, with
development rather than arms. It examines both the national
and the global concerns of human security.
GLOBAL - 1994
Human
Development Report 1993
People's Participation
The
Report examines how and to what extent people participate in
the events and processes that shape their lives. It looks at
three major means of peoples' participation: people-friendly
markets, decentralised governance and community organisations,
especially non-governmental organisations (NGOs), and suggests
concrete policy measures to address the growing problems of
increasing unemployment.
GLOBAL - 1993
Human
Development Report 1992
Global Dimensions of
Human Development
The
richest 20% of the population now receives 150 times the
income of the poorest 20%. The Report suggests a two-pronged
strategy to break away from this situation. First, making
massive investments in their people and strengthening national
technological capacity can enable some developing countries to
acquire a strong competitive edge in international markets
(witness the East Asian industrializing tigers). Second, there
should be basic international reforms, including restructuring
the Bretton Woods institutions and setting up a Development
Security Council within the United Nations.
GLOBAL - 1992
Human
Development Report 1991
Financing Human
Development
Lack
of political commitment rather than financial resources is
often the real cause of human development. This is the main
conclusion of Human Development Report 1991 - the second in a
series of annual reports on the subject.
GLOBAL - 1991
Human
Development Report 1990
Concept and Measurement
of human development
The
Report addresses, as its main issue , the question of how
economic growth translates - or fails to translate - into
human development. The focus is on people and on how
development enlarges their choices. The Report discusses the
meaning and measurement of human development, proposing a new
composite index. However, its overall orientation is practical
and pragmatic.
GLOBAL - 1990
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