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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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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