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The pathways from climate change to insecurity

16 July 2021 | Florian Krampe, Kheira Tarif and Malin Mobjörk (formerly) of the Climate Change and Risk Programme at Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
The idea that climate change can trigger conflict has captured the popular imagination, but it is sometimes dismissed by conflict analysts. In a sense, both views are correct. Pinpointing the true causes of a conflict is rarely straightforward...Read more

2020 HDR Q&A: The need to remove development's 'stark distinctions'

06 May 2021 | Devex
This article originally appeared on Devex. Visit the Focus on: People and the...Read more

2020 HDR Q&A: Why human development metrics may have to shift

09 April 2021 | Devex
This article originally appeared on Devex. Visit the Focus on: People and the...Read more

2020 HDR Q&A: Why local and Indigenous communities are vital to sustainable human development

15 March 2021 | Devex
This article originally appeared on Devex. Visit the Focus on: People and the...Read more

2021 Seminar Series on Multidimensional Poverty

20 January 2021 | HDRO, UNDP
The Institute for International Economic Policy (IIEP) at George Washington University and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), with the support of the United Nations Development Programme’s Human Development Report office (UNDP...Read more

Reimagining Human Development and the Planet

04 January 2021 | Kishan Khoday, Regional Team Leader - Nature, Climate and Energy, UNDP Global Policy Network
The world has entered a new era of complexity and instability, with atmospheric carbon levels not seen in three million years, onset of the sixth mass extinction in the Earth’s history, growing severity of disasters and accelerating frequency of...Read more

Broken societies put people and planet on collision course, says UNDP

15 December 2020 | HDRO
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In Memory of Prof. Stephan Klasen (1966-2020)

16 November 2020 | HDRO
The Human Development Report Office is greatly saddened by the death of Stephan Klasen, Professor of Development Economics and Empirical Economic Research at the University of Göttingen. We lost a friend, advisor, thought leader and a regular...Read more

The Subnational Gender Development Index: Within-country variation in gender (in)equality revealed

29 October 2020 | Jeroen Smits, Professor of Economic and Human Development and Director of the Global Data Lab at Radboud University; Iñaki Permanyer, Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow at the Centre d’Estudis Demogràfics
In most societies worldwide, gender inequality is widespread, with males better positioned in social, economic, and political hierarchies. Gender equality is important in and of itself, and it is also instrumental in achieving other socially desirable...Read more

Human mobility: a driver of building forward better

28 October 2020 | Luca Renda, Head of the Recovery Solutions and Human Mobility Team, UNDP Crisis Bureau
A decade ago, sending a postcard home was as common as packing a toothbrush for the traveler. Now it’s a relic, a victim of the digital world. How we move has always been a dynamic phenomenon affected by external events – or, as 2020 has shown, how we...Read more
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