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Human Development Reports (HDRs) have been released most years since 1990 and have explored different themes through the human development approach. They have had an extensive influence on development debate worldwide. The reports, produced by the Human Development Report Office for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), are ensured of editorial independence by the United Nation’s General Assembly
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Human Development Report 1998
Dec 1998
Book
Prepared by a team of eminent economists and distinguished development professionals Human Development Report 1998 reviews the challenges that all people and all countries face - to forge consumption patterns that are more environmentally friendly more socially equitable that meet basic needs of all and that protect consumer health and safety. This book marshals environmental developmental technological and moral arguments to present a critique of consumption patterns that are inimical to human development and an agenda for action to create an enabling environment for sustainable consumption for human development.
Human Development Report 1997
Dec 1997
Book
The Human Development Report's eighth annual edition continues its tradition of updating the unique Human Development Indicators comparing human development in most countries of the world and the data tables on all aspects of human development. The 1997 edition focuses on the goal of eradicating extreme poverty in the early 21st century and views this goal as completely attainable regarding it as a moral imperative to which almost all countries committed themselves at the World summit for Social Development in 1995.
Human Development Report 1996
Dec 1996
Book
The Human Development Report seventh edition updates the unique Human Development Indicators comparing human development in most countries of the world and the data tables on all aspects of human development. The special focus of this edition is on the important link between economic growth and human development. The Report maintains that the link is not automatic but can be established through proper policy management arguing the case for initiating and accelerating economic growth and at the same time accelerating and sustaining human development in different parts of the world. The Report also maintains that the quality of growth is as important as its quantity; otherwise growth can be jobless voiceless ruthless rootless and futureless. It identifies employment as an important instrument in translating the benefits of economic growth into people's lives.
Human Development Report 1995
Gender and Human Development
Dec 1995
Book
The theme of the 1995 Human Development Report is gender and human development. The sixth in an annual series prepared by an independent team of eminent economists and social scientists it analyses global trends in closing and widening gender gaps in different regions and countries. It shows graphically that no country treats its women as well as its men and identifies a new action agenda for promoting gender equity in the decades ahead. This report has been prepared in advance of the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in September 1995.
Human Development Report 1994
Dec 1994
Book
The 1994 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. The Report seeks to deal with these concerns through a new paradigm of sustainable human development capturing the potential peace dividend a new form of development co-operation and a restructured system of global institutions.
Human Development Report 1993
Dec 1993
Book
The challenge for development is to identify the best route to unleash people’s entrepreneurial spirit – to take risks to compete to innovate to determine the direction and pace of development. Every institution – and every policy action – should be judged by one critical test: how does it meet the genuine aspirations of the people? This is the vision national and global decision-makers must consider if the 1990s are to emerge as a new watershed in peaceful development – and if the 21st century is to see the full flowering of human potential all over the world. It is fitting therefore that this year’s Human Development Report has people’s participation as its special focus.
Human Development Report 1992
Dec 1992
Book
The world has a unique opportunity in the current decade to use global markets for the benefit of all nations and all people. This report looks at the workings of these global markets – at how they meet or fail to meet the needs of the world’s poorest people. The global issues in this Report supplement the analysis of domestic policy issues in the first two Reports. It attempts to analyse global markets from a human perspective. It presents a disturbing new analysis of the global distribution of income and opportunities 00 demonstrating that income disparities have in recent years widened dramatically. It concludes that if developing countries are to trade on a more equal basis they will need massive investments in people – because knowledge and the mastery of new technology are a country’s best competitive advantage today.
Human Development Report 1991
Dec 1991
Book
This report is about financing human development. A single powerful idea runs through it – that the potential is enormous for restructuring national budgets and international aid in favour of human development. It lays foundations for a fresh set of priorities. It aims to refine further the concepts and the methods of measurement – and to distil more practical experience from many countries. Another aim is to do more research and analysis on participatory development and to examine the global dimensions of human development looking at familiar international issues from a human perspective. The final message of this Report is one of hope. If we can mobilize the political base for action – nationally and globally – the future of human development is secure.
Human Development Report 1990
Dec 1990
Book
This report is about people — and about how development enlarges their choices. It is about more than GNP growth more than income and wealth and more than producing commodities and accumulating capital. A person's access to income may be one of the choices but it is not the sum total of human endeavour. This report lays out a concrete priority agenda for better data collection that will enable the human development index to be used increasingly as a genuine measure of socioeconomic growth. It analyses the record of human development for the last three decades and the experience of 14 countries in managing economic growth and human development. It ends with a special focus on the problems of human development in an increasingly urban setting.
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