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2019 MPI—Going beyond averages to show subnational disparities

30 July 2019 | HDRO
Disaggregation matters The global MPI highlights inequalities at the global, regional, national and subnational levels. Each layer of analysis yields a new understanding of inequality and provides a far richer picture than the...Read more

Human development and the SDGs

24 June 2019 | Pedro Conceição, Director of the Human Development Report Office at UNDP
UNDP’s Human Development Report turns 30 next year. This is a moment both for celebrating the report’s impact, and for reflecting on how it can continue to help global development in a landscape dominated by the SDGs. “People,” began the...Read more

The earlier the better!

10 June 2019 | Nevena Kulic and Christina Lengfelder
Nevena Kulic is a Researcher at the European University Institute and Christina Lengfelder is a Research Analyst at the Human Development Report Office at UNDP. Education has often been...Read more

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
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