PHM-Exch> Human Development Report 2010 - The Real Wealth of Nations: Pathways to Human Development

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) <ruglucia at paho.org>
crossposted from: EQUIDAD at listserv.paho.org


 *Human Development Report 2010 —20th Anniversary Edition

* *The Real Wealth of Nations: Pathways to Human Development

* *United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) – November 4th, 2010

* *Available online PDF [236p.] at: http://bit.ly/915GUq

*

…..The first *Human Development Report *in
1990<http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr1990/> opened
with the simply stated premise that has guided all subsequent Reports:
*“People are the real wealth of a nation.”
* By backing up this assertion with an abundance of empirical data and a new
way of thinking about and measuring development, the *Human Development
Report *has had a profound impact on development policies around the world.
…”

This year’s Report celebrates the contributions of the human development
approach, which is as relevant as ever to making sense of our changing world
and finding ways to improve people’s well-being. Indeed, human development
is an evolving idea—not a fixed, static set of precepts—and as the world
changes, analytical tools and concepts evolve. So this Report is also about
how the human development approach can adjust to meet the challenges of the
new millennium….”

“………Addressing these issues requires new tools. In this Report we introduce
three measures to the HDR family of indices—the Inequality-adjusted Human
Development Index, the Gender Inequality Index and the Multidimensional
Poverty Index (for definitions of basic terms used in the Report, see box
1).

These state-of-the-art measures incorporate recent advances in theory and
measurement and support the centrality of inequality and poverty in the
human development framework. We introduce these experimental series with the
intention of stimulating reasoned public debate beyond the traditional focus
on aggregates.

Today’s challenges also require a new policy outlook. While there are no
silver bullets or magic potions for human development, some policy
implications are clear. First, we cannot assume that future development will
mimic past advances: opportunities today and in the future are greater in
many respects.
Second, varied experiences and specific contexts preclude overarching policy
prescriptions and point towards more general principles and guidelines.
Third, major new challenges must be addressed—most prominently, climate
change.

Many challenges lie ahead. Some are related to policy: development policies
must be based on the local context and sound overarching principles;
numerous problems go beyond the capacity of individual states and require
democratically accountable global institutions.

There are also implications for research: deeper analysis of the
surprisingly weak relationship between economic growth and improvements in
health and education and careful consideration of how the
multidimensionality of development objectives affects development thinking
are just two examples…”

 *Content:*

 Download Summary
<http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_2010_EN_Summary.pdf>[2,860 KB]

 ·         Complete
report<http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_2010_EN_Complete.pdf>[11,178
KB]

·         Foreword, Acknowledgments and
Contents<http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_2010_EN_Contents.pdf>[240
KB]
*Introduction by Amartya Sen*

·         Overview
<http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_2010_EN_Overview.pdf>[119 KB]

·         Chapter 1 - Reaffirming human
development<http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_2010_EN_Chapter1.pdf>[362
KB]

·         Chapter 2 - The advance of
people<http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_2010_EN_Chapter2.pdf>[6,143
KB]

·         Chapter 3 - Diverse paths to
progress<http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_2010_EN_Chapter3.pdf>[551
KB]

·         Chapter 4 - Good things don’t always come
together<http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_2010_EN_Chapter4.pdf>[620
KB]

·         Chapter 5 - Innovations in measuring inequality and
poverty<http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_2010_EN_Chapter5.pdf>[2,061
KB]

·         Chapter 6 - The agenda beyond
2010<http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_2010_EN_Chapter6.pdf>[560 KB]

·         Notes and
Bibliography<http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_2010_EN_NotesBiblio.pdf>[302
KB]

·         Readers
guide<http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_2010_EN_Readers.pdf>[87 KB]

·         Human development statistical
tables<http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_2010_EN_Tables.pdf>[644 KB]

·         Technical
notes<http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_2010_EN_TechNotes.pdf>[339 KB]

 *Press Releases*

·         2010 Human Development Report: 40-year Trends Analysis Shows Poor
Countries Making Faster Development
Gains<http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/PR1-HDR10-overview-E-rev6.pdf>[2,337
KB]

·         2010 Human Development Report: Innovative new measurements chart
impact of poverty, gender,
inequality<http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/PR2-HDR10-3Indices-E-rev5.pdf>[1,818
KB]

·         UNDP Releases 2010 Human Development
Index<http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/PR3-HDR10-HD1-E-rev4.pdf>[1,388 KB]

·         Build Your Own Index: UNDP provides free web access to 40 years of
data <http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/PR4-HDR10-Website-E-rev4-sm.pdf> [200 KB]

·         Human Development Report: Education drives Africa development
gains over 40 years<http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/PR5-HDR10-RegRBA-E-rev5-sm.pdf>[203
KB]

·         2010 Human Development Report: Asian countries lead development
progress over 40
years<http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/PR6-HDR10-RegRBAP-E-rev5-sm.pdf>[263
KB]

·         Human Development Report: Five Arab countries among top leaders in
long-term development
gains<http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/PR7-HDR10-RegRBAS-Erev5-sm.pdf>[205
KB]

·         2010 Human Development Report: Latin America and Caribbean
approaching EU, US levels in life expectancy,
school<http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/PR8-HDR10-RegRBLAC-E-rev6.pdf>[768
KB]

·         2010 Human Development Report: Eastern Europe and Central Asia
found highly ‘equitable’, but life expectancy declines slow area’s long-term
development progress<http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/PR9-HDR10-RegECIS-Erev5-sm.pdf>[205
KB
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://phm.phmovement.org/pipermail/phm-exchange-phmovement.org/attachments/20101105/d1cfb8f2/attachment.html>