Publications
Global Human Development Report
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Human Development Report 2007
Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world
The report provides a stark account of the threat posed by global warming. It argues that the world is drifting towards a “tipping point” that could lock the world’s poorest countries and their poorest citizens in a downward spiral, leaving hundreds of millions facing malnutrition, water scarcity, ecological threats, and a loss of livelihoods.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Global 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.
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Global Human Development Report 2002
Deepening democracy in a fragmented world
Politics matter for human development. Reducing poverty depends as much on whether poor people have political power as on their opportunities for economic progress. Democracy has proven to be the system of governance most capable of mediating and preventing conflict and of securing and sustaining well-being. By expanding people's choices about how and by whom they are governed, democracy brings principles of participation and accountability to the process of human development.
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Global 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.
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Indonesia Human Development Report
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Indonesia Human Development Report 2004
The Economics of Democracy: Financing Human Development in Indonesia
Indonesia's Second Human Development Report examines the cost of guaranteeing these rights
for every citizen. The Report argues that, in the economics of democracy, public expenditure
is the critical driver in delivering basic standards and rights. Understanding these costs,
and their benefits, is especially vital to a country that is consolidating its democracy.
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Indonesia Human Development Report 2001
Towards a New Consensus: Democracy and Human Development in Indonesia
This report puts people first. It argues that progress in
human development is not just essential in itself but also lays the
foundations for a stable and unified democracy, and promotes the transition
towards a rules-based market economy that can permit sustained economic
growth. In a country as large and diverse as Indonesia, however, this can
only be achieved through extensive national and regional consultations –
leading to a new consensus and a shared commitment to human development.
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