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How did Europe do on SDG 10.1 - sustaining income growth of the bottom 40%?

23 May 2019 | Thomas Blanchet and Lucas Chancel and Amory Gethin
At the World Inequality Lab, Thomas Blanchet is the Statistical tools and methods coordinator; Lucas Chancel is the Co-Director; and Amory Gethin is a Research Fellow. After a decade of economic...Read more

Measuring inequality in middle-income countries

13 May 2019 | Carlos Gradín and Kunal Sen, UNU-WIDER
Income inequality is the result of complex processes with multiple interacting driving forces but understanding those drivers in emerging economies is particularly difficult because of data and analytical challenges. While most middle-income countries...Read more

Human Development Reimagined

21 March 2019 | Pedro Conceição, Director of the Human Development Report Office at UNDP
UNDP’s Human Development Report (HDR) celebrates its 30th birthday next year. And in the run up to that the Human Development Report Office is embarking on a major effort to re-articulate human development for today’s world. The HDR came at a...Read more

Are you Happy with your Government?

20 March 2019 | Jon Hall, Policy Specialist at the Human Development Report Office, UNDP
Since 2013 the United Nations has celebrated the International Day of Happiness on March 20 as a way recognize the importance of happiness to people’s lives. Although few would disagree that “happiness” is a basic aspiration of humankind, until...Read more

Wildlife–Not Money–Makes the World Go Round

28 February 2019 | Jon Hall, Policy Specialist at the Human Development Report Office, UNDP
Late last year the World Wide Fund for Nature released their Living Planet Report for 2018. WWF’s estimates were stark: populations of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and...Read more

Policies for Human Development

07 February 2019 | Christina Lengfelder, Research Analyst at the Human Development Report Office, UNDP
In the proliferating landscape of development reports, many have asked the question of the value-added of the Human Development Reports (HDRs) in the era of...Read more

How cultural and creative industries can power human development in the 21st Century

23 January 2019 | Thangavel Palanivel, Deputy Director of the Human Development Report Office, UNDP
Cultural and creative industries, which include arts and crafts, advertising, design, entertainment, architecture, books, media and software, have become a vital force in accelerating human development. They empower people to take ownership of their...Read more

North East Nigeria’s Crisis: A case of religious bigotry or a consequence of the failed promise of prosperity?

04 December 2018 | Ojijo Odhiambo, Senior Economic Advisor, UNDP Nigeria
The decade-long Boko Haram insurgency, epitomized by the abduction in April 2014 of 276 girls from Government Secondary School in Chibok, has left in its wake a tale of destruction, tens of thousands of deaths, displacement of millions of...Read more

Violence against women, a cause and consequence of inequality

19 November 2018 | Selim Jahan, Director of the Human Development Report Office, UNDP
The lack of women’s empowerment is a critical form of inequality. And while there are many barriers to empowerment, violence against women and girls (VAW) is both a cause and a consequence of gender inequality. Estimates by the World Health...Read more

Measuring multidimensional poverty for leaving no one behind

06 November 2018 | Carolina Rivera and Monica Jahangir
Carolina Rivera is a Research Analyst at the Human Development Report Office at UNDP and Monica Jahangir is a Policy and Advocacy Officer at the International Movement ATD Fourth World. Poverty has many dimensions beyond a lack of money...Read more
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