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21 March 2017
The Human Development Report 2016 ‘Human Development for Everyone’ will be launched on 21 March in Stockholm with the Prime Minister of Sweden, Stefan Löfven; United Nations Development Programme Administrator, Helen Clark; and the Director of the Human Development Report Office and lead author of the report, Selim Jahan.
In past decades, there...
06 December 2016
The awardees are the teams behind the National Human Development Reports from Chile (2012), Montenegro (2013), Sri Lanka (2014) and Uganda (2015). HRH Crown Prince Haakon of Norway and UNDP Administrator, Helen Clark joined Human Development Report Office Director, Selim Jahan, in presenting the awards. Read More...
20 October 2016
October 20 is World Statistics Day and a good occasion to reflect on the ever growing attention to statistics. Not only does the old adage “if you cannot measure it you cannot manage it” hold true, but increasingly we suspect that if “you do not measure it you do not pay attention to it.” However, reliable statistics remain expensive to produce...
21 September 2016
Human trafficking, which represents the recruitment, transport, receipt and harboring of people for the purpose of exploiting their labor, affects almost all parts of the world and it is having a negative impact on human development progress. According to the 2016 Slavery Index there are today some 46 million men, women and children in modern...
12 June 2016
How has the world of child labour changed since you first got involved in the field? What are some of the positive changes and some of the less positive ones?
When I started in 1981, there was complete ignorance about this serious problem. People easily ignored it with a common perception that they are poor children, and they are working,...
09 June 2016
There is no denying that conflict has far-reaching negative effects, including on employment. But the prevailing understanding of the relationship between conflict and employment does not fully recognize the complexity of this relationship – a shortcoming that undermines effective employment policies in fragile states.
The conventional wisdom is...
08 June 2016
Chaque année, l’Indice de Développement Humain (IDH), indice phare des rapports sur le développement humain, fait les gros titres à travers le monde, tandis que les pays suivent leur progrès en matière d’éducation, de santé et de revenu. Bien que l’IDH ne soit pas une mesure complète de développement humain, c’est une valeur de bien-être élargie...