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Background
Papers:
In
preparation for the Human Development Report every year, the HDRO
commissions a number of experts to write papers on issues related to the
theme of the Report. The following is a compilation of selected
Occasional Papers written since 1992. Individually, each paper brings to
light a key facet of human development in different parts of the world.
Together, they help establish a framework of tools, concepts and actions
to address the issue of human development worldwide.
The report also draws
from a number of independent research papers by distinguished academics
and policymakers. These background papers are available online and can
also be purchased from the UN publications office.
2007
Thematic Papers
Issue Notes
- Pederson, Peter
D. "Japan"
2006
Thematic Papers
Issue Notes
Additional Papers
2005
Thematic papers
Issue notes
Barber, Catherine. 2005.
“Potential Benefits of Labour Mobility and Mode 4 Negotiations: Rule of Origin
and Trade Preferences.”
2004
2003
Country Case Studies
2002
2001
2000
1999
1997
1996
1995
1994
- Haq, Mahbub ul.
"Reflections on Human Development" (available from Oxford
University Press, ISBN 0-19-510193-6)
1993
Kaul,
Inge, and Saraswathi Menon. "Human
Development: From Concept to Action, A 10-Point Agenda"
1992
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Human
Development Report 2007-2008
Human Development and Climate Change
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.
Selected
background papers
Human
Development Report 2006
Beyond scarcity: power, poverty and the
global water crisis In preparation for the Human Development
Report, the HDRO commissions every year a number of experts to write papers
on issues related to the theme of the Report. Click
here to view the compilation of selected background papers
written for the Human Development Report 2006 "Beyond scarcity: Power,
poverty and the global water crisis". Individually, each paper brings
to light a key facet of human development in different parts of the world.
Together, they help establish a framework of tools, concepts and actions to
address the issue of human development worldwide.
Human
Development Report 2005
International
cooperation at a crossroads: Aid, trade and security in an unequal
world
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